Manage scheduled jobs

A scheduled job is a service performing a task (job) at a given time interval. An administrator can start a job manually. By default, Optimizely Content Management System (CMS (SaaS)) includes several scheduled jobs. Some are enabled by default with preset values.

Click on a job. The Details tab lets you run the scheduled job manually, click Start, and the job is executed immediately.

Click on a job. The History tab lets you monitor the status and results when a scheduled job is executed. If a job fails, information about it displays under the Message column.

The Settings tab lets you set the desired time interval. Each scheduled job's run time displays in the Start Date field.

If you select Manual, the Start Date field does not display, and the job is inactive. Inactive jobs must be started manually. The other options are counted as active status and display the Start Date field.

You can configure how often your trash empties with the Automatic Emptying of Trash job. With automatic emptying, content in trash older than 30 days is permanently deleted by default. You can also manually delete Trash permanently.

The job is enabled by default and set to run weekly.

You can check links on your application to identify broken links with the Link Validation job. The system tries to contact the target for the link to verify that it is responding.

Links are returned only if they are unchecked or checked earlier than when the job started. The job continues until no more unchecked links are received from the database. If many consecutive errors are found for external links, in case of a general network problem with the server running the application, the job stops.

The result of the link validation job is a report called Link Status in the Optimizely CMS Report Center.

Syncs changes in your instance of CMS (SaaS) with Optimizely Graph. This job is usually quicker than a full sync.

Syncs your instance of CMS (SaaS) with Optimizely Graph. This job usually takes longer than a delta sync.