Scheduling a Job
One of the most useful features of Jobs is scheduling them to run without manual effort, automating the refreshing of content throughout Informer.
To set up a Job schedule, first enable the Schedule toggle on the Job's detail page to show the When section.
Next, click the When section and choose from the refresh interval options available. Choose Once to run the Job a single time, or choose a repeating interval: minutes, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly, through to other custom intervals determined by CRON syntax. The next three fire times display while you configure the refresh interval, to help you visualize when the Job will fire. Start and End Dates indicate a beginning and end date for the Job. Click Save to finalize the refresh interval.
A Job set to Once runs a single time, at its Start Date, and never repeats. There is no recurrence to configure and no End Date to set, so Informer hides that field. Once the Job has run, Informer clears its next run time so it is not picked up again. Pick a Start Date in the future: a one-time Job whose Start Date has already passed has no run left to make. On the Job detail page, When then reads Once on followed by the run's date and time. If the run fails, Informer retries it, waiting a little longer before each attempt, up to a retry limit an administrator sets (three by default), and it stops retrying once the Start Date is more than an hour in the past.
After saving the interval, the Job detail page reflects the configured refresh interval, giving a quick reference for the next time the Job runs. Click back into the When section to update the interval. To disable a schedule, unselect the Schedule toggle. Informer retains the last interval configured, providing a starting point for when the schedule is enabled again.
