Scheduled Tasks
Overview
A cron component is available for managing and running scheduled tasks for your Hub.
The Cron Job Manager can be found by logging into the /administrator interface. Once logged in, hover over Components and clicking on Cron from the drop-down.
What is cron?
Cron is the name of program that enables unix users to execute commands or scripts (groups of commands) automatically at a specified time/date. It is normally used for sys admin commands.
A hub has a specific cron job that calls to the CMS. From there the code executes a list of jobs that can be created, published/unpublished, modified, and deleted via the administrator interface.
Create/Edit Jobs
When you create a new job, you will select the event to trigger. Each event calls to a specific plugin and performs its own set of tasks.
All jobs have two sections that are the same: Details and Recurrence. The Parameters are different for each event.
Details
- Event
- This displays the system name of the module. No entry is allowed.
- Title
- The Title of the Module.
- State
- Whether or not the job is enabled. If "No", the job will not be run.
- Recurrence
-
This is how often a job should be run. Several common values are provided--such as "run once a day, midnight"--with the option to specify your own by selecting "custom" front he drop-down list.
Recurrence
Parameters
This will vary between events.