How does "Process Immediately" work?

SimpleQ
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Here’s a quick answer to a question I got from a user:

Can I ask for a bit more clarification on SimpleQ, please? Am I right in saying that if the Channel is set to Process immediately this is going to have the same impact as a PSOS call? However, if it’s added as a queued message, which is then triggered by the Server Schedule, which is set to run once a minute, this then becomes a single PSOS call, reducing the risk of too many calls being made simultaneously. Just need to understand fully so I can choose the right option.

Short answer: yes.

The API script for publishing a message uses a PSOS header, so Process Immediately will spawn PSOS sessions but scheduling a script on a server to run every minute has its own impacts that vary depending on how much load SimpleQ is handling and how busy the server is.

2

Is there any difference in the Authentication for ‘Scheduled’ vs ‘Process Immediately’ ? When I leave my Channel as not set to Process Immediately, the messages are processed fine, but when set to Process Immediately, they fail with a Code 100. I don’t quite get this - aren’t both process run using the creds set in the FMS Admin Console to run the script?

3

No. When you use process immediately it runs the script with the same account that created the message.

4

…and for the sake of clarity - that means the account used to configure the API key generated by OttoFMS? (assuming that’s being used)?

5

Yes, that’s correct. The Data API keys from OttoFMS should be considered like a placeholder for a given username and password. When they are used, your actual username and password are used to login to the FileMaker file