Create Task Scheduler Jobs

It is usually necessary to execute tasks from you project on a schedule. This module has a shortcut to create scheduled jobs for Django management commands in the Windows Task Scheduler.

Warning

This feature requires the installation of the pywin32 module. Install it with pip install pywin32

Create a task

Creating a new task is done with the createtask command.

For example, lets say you want to run the following command every hour:

$ py manage.py say_hello --new-users

You can create a schedule with this command:

$ py manage.py createtask "say_hello --new-users" -i hours=1

Now the following command will be executed every hour by the Windows Task Scheduler.

Using predefined tasks

Included with this module are some predefined tasks for some Django and Third-Party app management commands. Those commands can be created using the --predefined or -p argument

clearsessions

Clear expired sessions from database, once a week:

$ py manage.py createtask clearsessions -p

See also

See more at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/django-admin/#django-admin-clearsessions

clean_duplicate_history

Clean duplicate history records from all models with history every 3 hours (from django-simple-history):

$ py manage.py createtask clean_duplicate_history -p

clean_old_history

Clean history records older then 30 days from all models with history every day (from django-simple-history):

$ py manage.py createtask clean_old_history -p

See also

See more at https://django-simple-history.readthedocs.io/en/latest/utils.html#utils

process_tasks

Worker for background tasks processing (from django-background-tasks):

$ py manage.py createtask process_tasks -p

You can also create multiple workers by specifying different names with --name argument.

See also

See more at https://django-background-tasks.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#running-tasks