# IRPCScheduledJobsAdmin.StartScheduledJob

Location: [gRPC API](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/index.md) > [Administration API](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/admin/index.md) > [Scheduled jobs](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCScheduledJobsAdmin/index.md)

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Badges: `Administration API / specialized` `admin` `session` `idempotent`

Runs a scheduled job now, outside its schedule.

- **Service:** [Scheduled jobs](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCScheduledJobsAdmin/index.md) `MFiles.IRPCScheduledJobsAdmin`
- **gRPC method:** `/MFiles.IRPCScheduledJobsAdmin/StartScheduledJob`
- **HTTP (mf-http-grpc):** `POST /grpc/v1/start-scheduled-job`
- **Request:** [`StartScheduledJobRequest`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCScheduledJobsAdmin/StartScheduledJob/index.md#request)
- **Response:** [`StartScheduledJobResponse`](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCScheduledJobsAdmin/StartScheduledJob/index.md#response)
- **Book and level:** Administration API, specialized
- **Kind:** admin
- **Session:** Required: the session ID from LogIn in the mfiles-session-id-bin metadata.
- **Idempotent:** yes
- **Returns metadata structure version:** no
- **Streaming:** none (unary)

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## Remarks

- **Starts a background job and returns before it completes**; follow it with
  [GetScheduledJobRunInfo](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCScheduledJobsAdmin/GetScheduledJobRunInfo/index.md).
- Fails with "The job is already running." if it is running.
- Rights depend on the job's type (see the service overview).

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## Request: StartScheduledJobRequest

> Nested message fields are expanded to depth 3; follow a type link for deeper levels and for the type's own page.

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `scheduled_job` | `int32` | The ID of the job to run. |

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## Response: StartScheduledJobResponse

No fields.

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## Related methods

- [GetScheduledJobRunInfo](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCScheduledJobsAdmin/GetScheduledJobRunInfo/index.md): Gets the run state of a scheduled job: running or not, last and next run, errors and progress.