New Feature: Job Scheduler

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The Job Scheduler allows you to schedule code to run at specified intervals. You schedule code to run by creating a job. 

Each job defines what code to run and when to run it. The code your job runs can be any backend function. You can schedule that code to run on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. 

For example, you might create jobs that:

• Import data from an external source once a day.

• Delete collection data that is no longer relevant once a week.

• Send a status report to relevant parties once a month.

How it works

You configure what jobs to run and when to run them in a jobs.config file in your site's backend.

The contents of the file look will look something like this:

{  
  "jobs": [     
    {  
      // first job object  
      "functionLocation": "/utils/dbUtils.js",
      "functionName": "deleteExpired",  
      "description": "Delete expired DB items",  
      "executionConfig": {  
        "time": "22:00",  
        "dayOfWeek": "Sunday"       
      }     
    }, {  
      // another job object     
    }   
  ]
} 

For more information, see Scheduling Recurring Jobs.