Azure WebJob/Scheduler every 30 minutes from 8am-6pm?

Question

When I go to configure a Schedule in the Azure management console, I\'m only given the option of scheduling with an absolute end date/time (or never ending) and an interval.

Answer 1

You can use the built-in scheduling which is more flexible than the Azure one. You can learn more about how that works from this blog post http://blog.amitapple.com/post/2015/06/scheduling-azure-webjobs/

The summary: create a file called settings.job that contains the following piece of json

{"schedule": "cron expression for the schedule"}

in your case the cron expression for "every 30 minutes from 8am to 6pm" would be 0,30 8-18 * * *

so the JSON you want is

{"schedule": "0,30 8-18 * * *"}

Keep in mind that this uses the timezone of the machine, which is UTC by default.