Manage scheduled tasks

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:

• The list contains failed, stopped, started, and pending tasks.
• All completed tasks do not appear – they can be found in the Trace.log.
• The list contains system tasks, as well as custom scheduled tasks that you create.
  For more information, see Scheduled tasks API.

For each task, the following information is displayed:

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:

• Failed tasks
  You can attempt to Retry a failed task
  
• Pending tasks
  You can Start a pending task.
  To start a task means that instead of the scheduled execution date and time, you change it to the current date and time. When the scheduling module finishes processing current tasks, it will execute it.
  
• All tasks
  You can delete all types of 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:

• by Scheduled date - ascending
  
• by Execution date – ascending
  
• Alphabetically – ascending or descending
  
• by Status
  

You can filter tasks by status, using the following filters in the right pane:

• All tasks
  
• Pending
  
• Started 
  
• Stopped
  
• Failed
  
• Recurring
  

Searches in the task name.
You can sort the search results.