Crontab Jobs

Global crontab jobs list

The crontab jobs page allows you to view all the crontab jobs in your project:

Module
Name
Instance (class and method)
Schedule (cron expression and human-readable format, i.e. * * * * * and Every minute)

Module crontab jobs list

In the module detail view, you can see the crontab jobs declared by this module.

Module crontab job creation

You can create a new command by clicking Generate > Crontab job button from the module detail view.

The module crontab job creation wizard includes the following features:

Autocomplete the list of available crontab groups
Live display the human-readable format of the cron expression

The following files are created/updated in app/code/Vendor/Module when you create a new crontab job:

etc/crontab.xml: created if it does not exist, or updated with the new crontab job declaration
Cron/CronName.php: created with the new crontab job class

NOTE

The crontab job class name is inferred from the crontab job name you provide.

Example of a generated crontab job

PHP class

php

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace MB\Test\Cron;

class MyCron
{
    public function execute(): void
    {
    }
}

`etc/crontab.xml`

xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:Magento_Cron:etc/crontab.xsd">
    <group id="default">
        <job name="mb_test_my_cron" instance="MB\Test\Cron\MyCron" method="execute">
            <schedule>*/5 * * * *</schedule>
        </job>
    </group>
</config>

Crontab Jobs ​

Global crontab jobs list ​

Module crontab jobs list ​

Module crontab job creation ​

Example of a generated crontab job ​

PHP class ​

etc/crontab.xml ​