Salesforce Asynchronous Apex: How to Batchable Apex Class from Schedulable Class

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Batchable and Schedulable classes can be a powerful tool for automating tasks in Salesforce.

It is possible to call a Batchable class from a Schedulable class. This design pattern can help us to schedule the Batch Job & run them at specific intervals.

In this design pattern, Schedulable Class will create a new instance of the Batchable class & then enqueues it. The Batchable class will then be executed by the Salesforce platform.

You can explore the details of Batchable & Schedulable classes in a few of my earlier articles:

Batchable Apex

Schedulable Apex

In this article, we will explore the implementation details of this design pattern.

We can start with a simple demo to explain the concept in the following steps:

Step-1 to Step-7: In these steps, we will be creating a brand new Batchable Class & get it ready to be scheduled by a Schedulable Class later. If need a detailed explanation of Batchable classes please refer to the links provided earlier in this article.