By John Carbone on

My apologies if this has been asked before (I've searched but found nothing relevant yet). I'm trying to use hook_cron and the batch API to update about 7000 small nodes on a nightly basis, via a csv file. I've got my module working fine with page and menu callbacks but when I try to kick off the job using cron I get "Cron run failed." and if I run it again I get "Attempting to re-run cron while it is already running." Is it even possible to use the two together? If so, what am I missing? Thanks!

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John Carbone commented

OK, I figured this out. In case anyone else has the same problem, I was missing a "finished" function and call. That missing call was also causing the batch to keep restarting, even when called from a normal page. Once I got it in, it solved both problems.

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I was having this same problem. Thanks for posting the fix.

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winnie80 commented

any chance that you can share your custom module, or perhaps good tutorial or step by step on how to achieve this cron + batch api?
thank you in advance