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I have a very basic question and only because I haven't been able to find any reference or source for it.
In Sitecore, how can I programmatically get the last run date/time of a job that is configured in the web.config or another config file? I had opened another question like this 2-3 years ago but the suggestions there don't really provide any help.
Any help or guidance is appreciated!
You cannot.
When Sitecore executes any job, it runs <job> pipeline defined in Sitecore.config (or web.config in older versions). This pipeline has SignalStart and SignalEnd processors, but the only thing they do is logging the information that job started or finished:
public static void SignalStart(JobArgs args)
{
Job job = args.Job;
job.Status.LogInfo("Job started: {0}", job.Name);
}
public static void SignalEnd(JobArgs args)
{
Job job = args.Job;
string str = string.Empty;
if (job.Status.Processed > 0L)
str = job.Status.Processed.ToString();
job.Status.LogInfo("Job ended: {0} (units processed: {1})", job.Name, str);
}
You can do what you need manually by analyzing the log files (see https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/a/1234/277 ) or you can add your own custom processors to the pipeline mentioned above and store this information in some other place / database / whatever suits you best.
<agent>. Would you consider creating a Sitecore scheduled task? Then you could see the last run time on the schedule item: i.imgur.com/rtWIDkp.pngDatabase.Properties.GetLastPublishDate(Database target, Language language)