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Audit and clean up the Scheduled Jobs page

You cannot create a schedule on the Scheduled Jobs page, but you can use it to audit what exists, measure your Scheduled Apex usage against the 100-job limit, and remove jobs you no longer need.

By Dipojjal Chakrabarti · Founder & Editor, Salesforce DictionaryLast updated Jun 16, 2026

You cannot create a schedule on the Scheduled Jobs page, but you can use it to audit what exists, measure your Scheduled Apex usage against the 100-job limit, and remove jobs you no longer need.

  1. Open the page

    From Setup, type Scheduled Jobs into the Quick Find box and select Scheduled Jobs. The full list of timed jobs in the org loads.

  2. Create a Scheduled Apex view

    Click Create New View, add a filter where Job Type equals Scheduled Apex, and save. The row count of this view is your current usage against the 100-job ceiling.

  3. Identify owners and purpose

    Scan the Submitted By and Submitted Date columns. Flag any job owned by a deactivated user or any Job Type you do not recognize for follow-up.

  4. Delete what is stale

    Click the Del link next to a job that has no reason to run. The schedule is removed and, for Scheduled Apex, the slot is freed for reuse.

Job Type filterremember

Filter a custom view to Scheduled Apex, Dashboard, or Snapshot so you can review one category of timed job at a time.

Submitted Byremember

The user the job runs as; deactivating this user can stop or break the job, so reassign or reschedule critical jobs first.

Del linkremember

Unschedules a single job permanently. It does not undo work already performed on earlier runs.

Gotchas
  • The page is read-only for creating schedules; build new schedules in Apex, the dashboard subscription UI, or the snapshot setup, not here.
  • Deleting a schedule only stops future runs. It does not reverse data changes the job made on previous executions.
  • A job owned by a deactivated user may quietly stop running, so check the Submitted By column before you deactivate anyone.
  • Scheduled Jobs shows future work only. To confirm a recent run actually succeeded, check the Apex Jobs page instead.

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