Script Background & Fix Scripts

Khanna Ji · ‎07-27-2018

What is Script Background & Fix Scripts?

I think both are used for running ad hoc scripts without the use of any workflow object or BR etc. But what is the difference?

Ankur Bawiskar · ‎07-27-2018

Hi Swathi,

Fix script is best approach when you install new application or want some data fixes to be running after making some changes in prod. The best feature of fix script is you can monitor it's execution and check the progress and you can kill the transaction as well.

Never execute any insert/update/delete script from script background since if it takes long time the browser will timeout and also if any error comes in the script it may get into some loop.

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Ankur Bawiskar · ‎07-27-2018

Hi Swathi,

Ideally fix script are used for inserting/updating records.

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Ankur Bawiskar · ‎08-30-2018

Hi Swathi,

Any update on this?
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Daniel Oderbolz · ‎11-16-2018

Note that fix scripts are also captured in Update Sets, so they are typically part of a deployment run book.

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Jaspal Singh · ‎07-27-2018

Hi Swathi,

Fix Script - Is specific for data of an application that has been installed/upgraded.

Background script-mass creations, updates, and deletions of records. Also, used for troubleshooting.

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Abhinay Erra · ‎07-27-2018

Both of them are server side scripts and as you mentioned are used for running adhoc scripts. I would prefer fix scripts when I want to capture it in an update set or export it to xml and migrate it to production. This way it is much cleaner and easy to push the code to higjre instances like QA, UAT and prod.