payload cms scheduler

dawidmachon

7 months ago

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  denolfe

  Payload Team

  7 months ago

  We use node-cron in our public demo to clear the database and re-seed data every hour. Might be a good example to look at. https://github.com/payloadcms/public-demo/tree/master/src%2Fcron

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  ChrisGV04

  7 months ago

  I believe there's no built-in way to do that on Payload, however, since it's built on top of express and Node.js you are able to implement cron jobs and use the Payload Local API to achieve what you're looking for.

  You can look into node-cron for a simple cron job implementation in Node.js.

  For the use case you mentioned, maybe you can run a cron job once at the beginning of every day to check for any inactive users since 7 days or more and suspend them using the Payload Local API.