In Sitefinity CMS scheduled tasks are used to execute a predefined set of operations at a particular point in time. You can, for example, schedule a news item to be published at a particular date and time or schedule a site sync operation.
You can also create custom scheduled tasks, for example, using Sitefinity CMS event system to postpone the execution of heavy operations.
Sitefinity CMS has a page where you can view all scheduled tasks that are in progress, stopped, pending, or failed and take respective actions.
PREREQUISITES: To access the Scheduled tasks page, you must have administrative permissions.
To access the page with the list of all scheduled tasks, navigate to Administration » Scheduled tasks. A list of all scheduled tasks in your Sitefinity CMS instance appears:
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For each task, the following information is displayed:
When a task is recurring, next to its name, the system displays Recurring (?).
If you click the question mark, the system displays the recurrence interval as a crontab expression in a tooltip. For more information, see Generate crontab expressions.
This is the status of the task. It can be one of the following:
NOTE: You can stop the execution of all scheduled stasks on a particular node of a load-balanced setup. For more information, see Disable the execution of scheduled tasks.
You can access each task actions by expanding its Actions link. Depending on their status, you can perform the following actions with the scheduled tasks:
IMPORTANT: Deleting a stopped or a started task may cause data corruption. You must proceed with caution.
NOTE: You cannot start a stopped task and you cannot stop a started task. You must do that from the module where you have started or stopped the operation. For example, if you have stopped moving images from one library to another, to resume the operation, you must go to the Libraries module where you have stopped it
By default, tasks are sorted by scheduled execution date in ascending order (by column SCHEDULED FOR). You can change that using the Sort dropdown box in the toolbar. You can sort tasks:
You can filter tasks by status, using the following filters in the right pane:
Searches in the task name. You can sort the search results.
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