Scheduled tasks

Schedules run an action automatically at a regular interval, so nobody has to remember it.

Creating a schedule

Click New schedule

The form opens.

Name the task

For example General channel reset. The name is required.

Choose the action type

See the table below.

Set the frequency

Then save.

The action types

Type	Effect
Channel reset (nuke)	Clones the target channel, deletes the original, then posts a message in the new channel announcing the reset.
Full server backup	Creates a backup automatically. It includes members, roles, channels, emoji and stickers, but never messages.
Data export (Logs & Profiles)	Produces an export of the logs and profiles.
Message programmé	Posts a message in a channel, with an optional embed.

Message programmé

The Message programmé type asks for a target channel and a Message - le texte posté dans le salon. An Embed (facultatif) can be added, with its title, description, colour and image.

Two safeguards specific to a message that repeats:

Autoriser les mentions, refused by default: without it, @everyone, @here and role mentions are written but notify nobody. A repeating message must not ping the whole server by accident.
Envoyer une seule fois: the task disables itself right after sending. Tick it for a dated message, whose cron expression would otherwise fire again the following year.

A message with neither text nor embed is refused at save time, rather than at the scheduled hour where the failure would go unnoticed.

The frequencies

Hourly
Daily at midnight
Weekly (Sunday at midnight)
Monthly (the 1st at midnight)
Custom (Cron expression)

The cron expression follows the standard Unix format minute hour day month day-of-week. For example, 0 12 * * * fires the task every noon.

Managing the schedules

Each card recalls the frequency, the target channel and the last run (or Never).

Button	Effect
Run	Executes the task immediately, in the background, without waiting for the next slot.
Edit	Reopens the form.
Delete	Removes the schedule permanently.

A schedule can also be enabled or disabled without being deleted, which is handy to pause a task during an event.