The Scheduling facility in ColdFusion Administrator lets you schedule the execution of local and remote web pages, generate static HTML pages, send mail with the cfmail tag, update database tables, index Verity collections, delete temporary files, and any other batch-style processing. The scheduling facility is especially helpful for applications that do not require user interactions or customized output. ColdFusion developers often use this functionality to schedule daily sales reports, corporate directories, and statistical reports. Response time is fast because the output is an HTML page, not a database transaction.
ColdFusion lets you schedule pages to execute daily, weekly, or monthly. You can specify a time of day for execution, and you can schedule a page to run only once, on a specified date.
When a scheduled page executes, ColdFusion writes a message to a log file called schedule.log. This file identifies the name of the scheduled action, the page to be executed, and whether the task scheduled executed successfully.
You can pause and resume scheduled tasks.
You must enable ColdFusion to log schedule events to the schedule.log file using the automation settings.