What Are Async Action Requests?

Async action requests are one of two similarly named features of a Landmark system. Infor Process Automation action requests are the other similarly named feature. For more information on Infor Process Automation action requests, see Understanding Infor Process Automation action requests and the Infor Process Automation Administration Guide.

An async action request represents anything that is scheduled to run in the Async Framework. Async action requests are the result of users performing form actions where those actions are ones that have been defined by the application developer as ones that should be processed in the background by the Async Framework. If the action has also been defined as one that is schedulable, the user will have the option of specifying scheduling parameters. Otherwise, the action will be placed on the queue immediately and processed as soon as the queue allows it to be.

You can see the scheduling state of a request by considering two fields, Pending Scheduling and Scheduled (their internal labels are PendingScheduling and IsScheduled). If Scheduled is "true," the request is a scheduled and recurring request. If Scheduled is "false," the request is a non-scheduled one-time request. If Pending Scheduling is "true," the request will be triggered for execution at least once more. If Pending Scheduling is "false," the request will not be triggered again, no matter what the Scheduled value is. Thus, manually setting Pending Scheduling to "false" essentially disables a request.

If both Pending Scheduling and Scheduled are "true," then new executions will be triggered until the schedule ends. If Pending Scheduling is "true" and Scheduled is "false," then a new execution will be triggered once at the time specified when the request was submitted, or as soon as possible if no time was specified. Then Pending Scheduling will be set to "false."

The ability to monitor and modify async action requests depends on whether the user has administrative access to the Async Framework or is a regular user. Administrators can view action requests for all users. A regular user will only be able to view his or her own action requests through My Actions.