Introducing Rules Scheduler for Drupal 7

This screencast 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. The screencast covers:

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

Additional resources

Rules guide (Drupal.org)