====Enabling Scheduled Tasks====

The [[scheduled:welcome|Scheduled]] addon works via your operating systems existing task scheduling solution.

This is **cron** in Linux, or **Task Scheduler** in Windows.

Before scheduled tasks can run, you'll need to set up your operating system to call ARDIs 'scheduler' every 15 minutes. We provide help in how to do this.

===Setting Up the OS Task===

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   * Go to **Administration|Scheduled Tasks**,
   * Click on the //configured your system correctly// link.
   * Choose your platform (ie. Windows or Linux)
   * Download the file, and
   * Follow the instructions provided

===On Windows===

On Windows, you'll be given an XML file that can be imported into Task Scheduler. This will set up the recurring event that triggers ARDIs scheduling system.

===On Linux===

On Linux, you'll be given a //cron// file. In most modern versions of Linux, you'll be able to copy this file into /etc/cron.d. On older or stripped-down versions of Linux that don't use .d folders, you can instead copy-and-paste the line from the sample file into your master **cron** file.

===Setup Complete===

Note that this only has to be done **once per ARDI server**. There is no need to go through the process for every ARDI database.

Once you've added the scheduled task to your operating system, you should be [[setup scheduled tasks|setup your scheduled tasks]].