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I have a batch class that batch class should not run Saturdays and Sundays and consider as public holidays(like Diwali) how to achieve this ? Pls give me the solution ?

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I have a batch class that batch class should not run Saturdays and Sundays and consider as public holidays(like Diwali) how to achieve this ? 
Pls give me the solution ?
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Sergio AlcocerSergio Alcocer
If the customer support holidays matches the ones you want to exclude in your batch, you could set them up in the Holidays object (https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=customizesupport_holidays.htm&language=en_US&type=0). If this doesn't apply or you don't want to use it, you could use a Custom Setting to store all Holidays.

In any case, my approach would be to schedule the batch from Monday to Friday (which excludes all weekends by default) and on the start method, check if the running date is a Holiday or not. If it is, return empty list; if its not, proceed as normal.


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Sergio AlcocerSergio Alcocer
If the customer support holidays matches the ones you want to exclude in your batch, you could set them up in the Holidays object (https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=customizesupport_holidays.htm&language=en_US&type=0). If this doesn't apply or you don't want to use it, you could use a Custom Setting to store all Holidays.

In any case, my approach would be to schedule the batch from Monday to Friday (which excludes all weekends by default) and on the start method, check if the running date is a Holiday or not. If it is, return empty list; if its not, proceed as normal.


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phanip adminphanip admin
Hi Sergio

First of all thank you very much

if you possible provide the code of batch apex with scheduling code also..