Question

I recently switched to Notes Designer 8.5.2 and noticed if I am editing an Agent scheduled for running daily at 08:00 the agent runs right after saving changes in the programmers panel.

Is that a new feature and how i can avoid that the agent runs now ?

Answer 1

No, that’s an old bug…{ahem}…feature. At least I dealt with it a lot on 6.0 and probably earlier. When you save a scheduled agent you clear out the record on the server that the scheduled agent has run today, and it puts the agent back in the queue.

The workaround I adopted was to change the scheduled agent to a hidden manual agent. Then I would create another scheduled agent that runs the hidden manual one. You can then edit the manual agent as much as you’d like without triggering it when you save.

Here’s the generic code I’d use in the scheduled agent. Just change the name of the agent and this should work for you:

Sub Initialize

    Dim s As New NotesSession
    Dim db As NotesDatabase
    Dim agt As NotesAgent

    Set db = s.CurrentDatabase
    Set agt = db.GetAgent("(Send Reminders)")
    Call agt.Run()

End Sub

UPDATE:

If you have access to the server, you can add a setting to the Notes.ini to prevent this behavior:

Amgr_SkipPriorDailyScheduledRuns=1