Enqueue multiple within job?

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I have a situation where I have a job. Depending on a logic branch within the job it will either run 1 (how the job was first designed) or multiple routines.

For instance, for a single entity the job definition is:

  1. Read data from DB for entity
  2. Save to file
  3. Zip file
  4. Move zip to network share

It takes in a JSON string that looks like:

{
    "UserId":"kbarrows",
    "JobName":"JobExport",
    "JobQueueName":"data_exports",
    "JobType":4,
    "JobStatus": 0,
    "EntityId": 3
}

Now we want to, if the Entity ID is EMPTY (see below) get a list of entities to operate on from the DB. (could be 6 or 7 entities).

{
    "UserId":"kbarrows",
    "JobName":"JobExport",
    "JobQueueName":"data_exports",
    "JobType":4,
    "JobStatus": 0,
}

For each entity, run above job. Complete the main job once all the sub-jobs are completed. Right now I am doing this with a Parallel.ForEach() method. I am thinking I might be able to Enqueue a “new” job instead for each entity. However, that means the main job will go on it’s way without knowing the outcome of each sub job.

Is there a way to do this? Should I do this?