Getting Started

Confluence Extension Points

NB - needs review

Scheduled Jobs are a mechanism for running code at specific times of day/week/month or on an interval, in order to perform some automated task in your Confluence instance e.g. automatically creating a release at the end of the month, or creating a new issue once a week. You could also use Scheduled Jobs to poll an external system that you want to integrate with your Confluence instance every hour.

The minimum interval between code executions is 1 hour. The scheduler is triggered every hour and gathers all the tasks to be executed within that hour. The task executions are queued and workers will consume them in no predefined order. That means that the execution time of the task can not be guaranteed to be the same every hour. As an example: if you configure a job to be run every hour, it might be run at 01:02 and then 02:24 and then 03:00 and then at 04:46 etc depending on how busy our systems are.

scheduled jobs

The schedule editor dialog lets you choose between running your script on several days during the week (e.g. Monday, Wednesday, Friday), or running your script on particular days of the month (e.g. the last day of the month, the 2nd Tuesday of the month). Additionally you can select an hour interval during which your script will be run.

Each Scheduled Job can execute for the same length of time as Script Listeners, Post Functions and in the Script Console as documented here.

See also the Escalation Service that lets you configure code that will be executed against each issue returned from a JQL search, on a schedule. This is useful for doing automated transitions/releases/updates of issues.

There is a possibility to test your script using "Run Now" button that will execute the script and return the results and the logs.