Scheduled jobs in Optimizely CMS are a powerful way to automate any background tasks like content cleanup, indexing, or reporting.
I created a simple scheduled job to delete the expired content.
Let’s get started.
Step 1: Create the Job Class
- Created a job called ExpiredPagesCleanupJob.cs that inherits the ScheduledJobBase class.
- Implement logger as needed, currently commented out in code.
- Rebuild and deploy the solution.
Step 2: Run the job
- Wondering, don’t I need to register the job in Optimizely CMS? No need, it automatically registers the job using the [ScheduledPlugin] attribute.
- Let’s navigate to Settings -> Scheduled Jobs
- Now you will see the job listed and ready to be started.
- Let’s start the job manually for now.
- History shows whether the job has succeeded or not.
- Before running the job, the Expired Page report showed that two content pages had expired.
- Now let’s check the reporting results again. yay! It’s successfully deleted!
- You can schedule the job every 5 seconds, minutes, hourly, and so on.
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Hope this helps.
Happy Optimizing!
