How to Set Up and Use Scheduled Tasks
This guide will show you how to properly set and use the scheduled tasks section of our Multicraft panel.
The scheduled tasks option is one of our Multicraft features that allows you to set scheduled events/commands to be executed at a specific date/time.
You can use it for regular backups, world saves, server restarts, in-game messages, and anything else you wish to execute.
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). After doing so you need to note the time and date of the message and note the difference between your time zone and the machine time zone. This way you can find the server time zone anytime using your time zone.๐ฌ How to Create a Scheduled Task ๐ฌ
To create a new scheduled task, you need to.
- Log in to your Multicraft panel here and stop your server.
- Click on
Advanced
, then onScheduled Tasks
.
- Click on
Create New
.
- Set the task to your liking and click on
Create
. You need to fill in the following information to set the scheduled task:
๐ Name
- You can set any name you wish.
- This name will be shown in your Scheduled Tasks list. In a few words, just to locate your task.
๐ Status
- Your Task status.
- If it is set to
Scheduled
(which enables the task) orPaused
(which will temporarily disable it).
๐ Scheduled Time
- When is it Scheduled?
๐ Interval
- If it is marked, what time interval will Multicraft execute the task.
๐ Command
- Command to be executed.
- You can use any custom commands you wish but you will have to first define it as a custom command in the Multicraft panel.
๐ Arguments
- For example the text for the say command.
- You can set a message when this task is executed.
๐ Run For
- The task will run for:
- A specific player?
- To everyone?
- To the whole server? (execute in the console)
๐ฉ Example ๐ฉ
We will show you how to set a scheduled task for sending a message to all players on the server.
The task will look like this when you create it.
๐ Name
- It will be set to
Message
as we can set it to whatever we want.
๐ Status
- It will be set to
Scheduled
since we want the task to keep happening.
๐ Scheduled Time
- We will open the
Scheduled Time
section and we will move just the minute's bar to be 5 minutes later, so our task will start in 5 minutes from the actual moment.
๐ Interval
- We will set it to 1 day, so the task is repeating each day at the same hour.
๐ Command
- The command is set to
Server Say
so it will send the message to any player.
๐ Arguments
- The argument is the message we want to send to all players. In our example is set to
Example_message
as it could be set to anything we want.
๐ Run For
- We want the command to be run for the entire server, so we will set the
Server
option in this section.
This should help you understand better how the scheduled tasks are working.
โ Useful Links โ
- How to Install Any Server Type (Clean Installation)
- Changing your server version and type
- How to Upload and Use a Custom Jar File
Updated on: 03/14/2023
Thank you!