Edit multiple server tasks automatically

[User96851389]

Hello,

We have several ePO server tasks that have different run times, but because of business requirements, we cannot schedule them in a consistent recurring manner.

I've been looking for a solution to be able to easily modify these tasks at once, ideally via a scripted method.

I have tried several methods so far:

1. My original idea was to use the web api, but unfortunately there are no options to edit server tasks.

2. I have tried exported the tasks in xml format, edit the xml files via script and reimport them.  However this is extremely cumbersome and almost just as bad as editing all the tasks the traditional way.

3. I tried editing the SQL db in our test environment to modify task schedules, but this didn't work at all as I suspect just changing the date/time isn't enough.

If anyone has any ideas it would be much appreciated.

Thank you

[cdinet · Accepted solution]

I know of no way to automate that and we don't support manually editing xml's.  If done incorrectly, it can break things.  Nor would we provide any script to update the database.  I would suggest submitting a PER per KB60021.