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Scheduled jobs

Scheduled Jobs are automated pieces of work that can be performed at a specific time or on a recurring schedule.

You can automate the following kinds of tasks:

Automatically generate and distribute a report
Automatically generate and schedule an entity of records, such as an incident, change item, configuration item, from a template
Run scheduled jobs from scripts or business rules
Scheduling at the end of the month
Scheduling for weekdays

For developer training, see Scheduled Script Executions and Events Objectives on the ServiceNow Developer Site.

Scheduled job states

A scheduled job can be in any one of the following states.

Ready: Job is ready to run at the next scheduled interval.
Running: Job is in the process of carrying out a task.
Queued: Job has been added to the scheduler queue and is waiting to run.
Error: Error occurred while running the job.

Create a scheduled job
Create a scheduled job on the Schedule Job [sysauto] table.
Special cases in job schedules
Some special cases require care in job scheduling.
View a schedule item
You can view scheduled items, which are individual instances of a scheduled job, from the system scheduler.

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Scheduled jobs

Scheduled Jobs are automated pieces of work that can be performed at a specific time or on a recurring schedule.

You can automate the following kinds of tasks:

Automatically generate and distribute a report
Automatically generate and schedule an entity of records, such as an incident, change item, configuration item, from a template
Run scheduled jobs from scripts or business rules
Scheduling at the end of the month
Scheduling for weekdays

For developer training, see Scheduled Script Executions and Events Objectives on the ServiceNow Developer Site.

Scheduled job states

A scheduled job can be in any one of the following states.

Ready: Job is ready to run at the next scheduled interval.
Running: Job is in the process of carrying out a task.
Queued: Job has been added to the scheduler queue and is waiting to run.
Error: Error occurred while running the job.

Create a scheduled job
Create a scheduled job on the Schedule Job [sysauto] table.
Special cases in job schedules
Some special cases require care in job scheduling.
View a schedule item
You can view scheduled items, which are individual instances of a scheduled job, from the system scheduler.

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