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Better Practice: Scheduled Script or Workflow

edited Dec 2, 2019 5:44PM in SuiteCloud / Customization 1 comment

Hey All,

I was hoping someone could lend their expertise to this question I have been mulling over. I know there are some obvious trade-offs to these two, but I just don't know what effects we will incur on our system which is currently on a shared server.

So, we have about 10k products in our instance for which we receive contract/promotional pricing over EDI. We currently have a scheduled script of about 1000 lines of code that essentially does a search of all these custom records that get created in our system and then applies these prices to the items on a daily basis. The script usually takes about 8 retries to completely finish which can take 30 deployments in about 2 hours time to complete. As a software engineer who didn't know much about the requirements, my initial reaction was just refactor this beast and optimize

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