• Schedule tasks are made up of a schedule (like cron has on linux) and a function to call.
  • They are administered in a similar way to menu items (including caching) and can be added by modules through use of hook_tasks()
  • Scheduler API contains functions for task reporting (i.e logs of what is done by the running task) then optionally (on a per-task basis) sends those logs via email.
  • Scheduler can be invoked from the command line using PHP CLI instead of wget allowing bypassing of the whole cron.php system. This will mean tasks can be run every minute. jadwigo suggested this one
  • Ability to theme the report emails sent after tasks are run

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Sammy Spets
Synerger
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