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