Agenda: Schedule same task with different data

[mavvverick]

I am getting trouble in scheduling same task with different data sets as it is been treated same and updates the already present task in the db with same task name.

task: notify-user-about-appointment

Example:

 var jobDate = new Date(); 
 var jobData = {to: '[email protected]'}; 
 agenda.schedule(jobDate, 'notify-user-about-appointment', jobData);

on second instance with data

var jobData = {to: '[email protected]'}; 

It overwrites the previously created entry in the database.

• Does the job name has to be unique?
• Is there any workaround?

[dylanjha]

This is not the documented behavior and this is not the behavior I'm seeing:

In this example, two jobs get correctly scheduled

[nemozny]

I faced the same problem and after some digging and testing the solution is:

• Do not use "agenda.every", it really creates the job of type "single" where second instance overwrites the first. However when I ran my whole agenda script few times over, sometimes it created 2 jobs out of 3 in the Mongo (I wanted all 3). Using callback hell corrected the "problem" and agenda created only 1 job at all times.

• You should use (for job scheduled every 10 minutes between 8:30 - 12:00 on weekdays)
  var job = agenda.create('jobName'); job.repeatEvery('30,40,50 8 * * 1-5').save(); job.repeatEvery('*/10 9-12 * * 1-5').save();
  This creates 2 instances with different schedules correctly (with type : "normal").

For once you can close this task.

[yassernascimento]

Maybe we need a PR to correct that behavior of the every method with jobs with the same name.