topic Re: Manual vs. Scheduled Job Flag in Get Started Discussions

Manual vs. Scheduled Job Flag

ChristianRRL — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 22:16:55 GMT

Hi all,

Simple question here. Is there some kind of "flag" accessible during a job run to tell if a job has been run via manual run vs. via scheduled run? I'm wanting to have the job behave slightly differently when running in either mode and ideally it would be nice to leverage an existing flag/variable of some kind during job execution.

Re: Manual vs. Scheduled Job Flag

ChristianRRL — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 22:26:14 GMT

For a bit more context, basically I would like to know *during the job run* (in Python) how the job was triggered (Manual vs Scheduled):

Re: Manual vs. Scheduled Job Flag

menotron — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:51:15 GMT

Hi @ChristianRRL, you could get this information using the dynamic value references {{job.trigger.type}}
In your task settings, assign it to a parameter.

And then you could access it from within your notebook using dbutils widgets

Re: Manual vs. Scheduled Job Flag

ChristianRRL — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 21:23:03 GMT

This is exactly what I needed. Thanks!