Azure is ignoring Scheduling settings for WebJob

Question

I deployed a WebJob the suggested way using Visual Studio, right-click onto the console project, selecting "Publish as Azure Webjob" and going through the settings. I selected a scheduled plan what caused the file "webjob-publish-settings.json" to be created in the Properties-Folder with the following content:

{
  "$schema": "http://schemastore.org/schemas/json/webjob-publish-settings.json",
  "webJobName": "TestCredentials2",
  "startTime": "2016-04-05T01:00:00+01:00",
  "endTime": "2016-04-12T00:00:00+01:00",
  "jobRecurrenceFrequency": "Minute",
  "interval": 3,
  "runMode": "Scheduled"
}

While the deployment worked, the webjob is in the state "On Demand". The Webjob is run once when I start it manually from within the Azure Portal but does not restart ever automatically.

I also tried to add a "settings.job" to the root of my project (with the setting "Copy if newer"):

{ "schedule": "0 /5 * * * *" }

Still no difference in the behaviour, but also no error message.

Answer 1

It did work using the settings.job approach. The following things had to be done:

1. Create a settings.job with the content in the question
2. select Build Action "Content" for that file
3. Select "Copy if newer"
4. Delete the generated "Properties/webjob-publish-actions.json"
5. Re-Publish the Project, chose "On Demand" instead of a schedule plan 

this creates a new webjob-publish-actions.json:

{
      "$schema": "http://schemastore.org/schemas/json/webjob-publish-settings.json",
      "webJobName": "MyTimer",
      "startTime": null,
      "endTime": null,
      "jobRecurrenceFrequency": null,
      "interval": null,
      "runMode": "OnDemand"
    }

Done.