Basics

Key Points

• Rules Scheduler needs components – you can only schedule prepared components
• Components can be scheduled as actions, for example from reaction rules
• Scheduled tasks are displayed under the Schedule tab on the Rules admin pages
• You can also use data selection, combined with offsets if you want to
• The evaluation time for scheduled tasks is set with strtotime(), which means that you can use highly flexible expressions
• Every scheduled task should have a unique task ID, or it will replace existing tasks

Basic Administration

You can delete tasks manually if you want to
You can schedule tasks manually, without the need of reaction rules
It is sometimes useful to execute rule components manually, to see that the scheduled tasks will work as expected

Video Tutorial

The Learn the Rules framework screencast, Introducing Rules Scheduler, shows how to start using Rules Scheduler. It does this by mimicking the Comment Closer module – closing the comments on articles two weeks after they are created.