Jiwa

Just wanted opinion on the best angle to attack setting up a schedule running every nn minutes to process sales orders.

I can either instantiate the Batch Processing object and simulate firing that. Sort of like

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JiwaFinancials.Jiwa.JiwaSales.BatchProcessing.BatchProcess batch = Plugin.Manager.BusinessLogicFactory.CreateBusinessLogic<JiwaFinancials.Jiwa.JiwaSales.BatchProcessing.BatchProcess>(null);
batch.ProcessCandidates.Read();
batch.Process();

Or, I can knock up a SQL SELECT to get my candidate orders, basically like this forum topic viewtopic.php?f=26&t=1649
Populate a list as the attached plugin demonstrates (in that forum post, not this one).
Then just loop through the list and process one by one, like this:

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if (InvoiceIds.Count > 0)
{
   JiwaFinancials.Jiwa.JiwaSales.SalesOrder.SalesOrder salesOrder = Plugin.Manager.BusinessLogicFactory.CreateBusinessLogic<JiwaFinancials.Jiwa.JiwaSales.SalesOrder.SalesOrder>(null);
   
   foreach (string invoiceID in InvoiceIds)
   {
      Plugin.Manager.LogEvent(String.Format("Processing invoice '{0}'", invoiceID), System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntryType.Information, 0, 0, true);   
      salesOrder.Read(invoiceID);

      salesOrder.Process() 
   }
}

I think my preference is the latter but would like to hear other thoughts.
And I can see the Process method has parameters for sales order report. Is that essential or can I leave the brackets blank?

EDIT: Re my last question about the brackets, I can see in the POS plugin that I can leave the .Process() brackets blank.

The problem with the latter is that it produces a batch number for every invoice.

I think my preference is the latter but would like to hear other thoughts.

That works. Was easier than I thought.
Not instantiating a batch object at all, so it's not creating a new batch for each sales order. It's just grabbing candidate orders via my SQL SELECT.
Then populating the list.
Then processing each one using salesOrder.Process().

So long as you understand you are creating a line in SO_Run for every order you process individually i.e. the sales order process code does it.

With the batch object you could add to the ProcessCandidates collection by filling in a JiwaFinancials.Jiwa.JiwaSales.BatchProcessing.ProcessCandidate which is a Jiwa collection item object and then just adding it to process candidates and then just call process on the batch to get them all in one run.