Best Practice when disabling reload tasks? Should the Task AND the Trigger be disabled?

[jblomqvist]

Hi,

Our users have always found it confusing what to do when disabling tasks.

In the QMC > Tasks page, you have a tick box for "Enabled" at the Task level, and the Trigger level.

Should both of them be disabled as a good practise when disabling a task?

Often I see only the Task disabled and not sure what that means because it often produces a "Skipped" status next time a run is due.

[stevedark]

Hi @jblomqvist 

You will be fine just doing it at the Task level, as this will disable all Triggers. If you have multiple Triggers and you just want to pause one of them then you can disable the trigger.

In practice though there is often a one-to-one relationship between task and trigger, so it is a moot point.

Steve

[AdamBS]

Hi Steve, any idea why I see these entries in the trace log... it looks like the trigger is still firing, just does a skip - so some minor work remains if you don't disable the triggers:

[stevedark]

Hi @AdamBS 

If you want to not see those entries in the log you will need to disable or delete the task. The point of doing a skip is if you have other reloads that are chained off the first, so one will be skipped but the rest will carry on.

Cheers,

Steve

[AdamBS]

Thanks Steve... very clever; a very smart design decision which I hadn't seen.