====== Setting up Cron jobs or Scheduled tasks ======

Some actions within Feng Office will be done asynchronously (performed in the background), without the need for user interaction, and therefore need to be somehow triggered.
These actions can go from sending notifications and reminders, to fetching emails automatically - if you use Feng Office as a mail client as well - or synchronizing with Google Calendar.

The trigger will be a cron job (Linux) or a scheduled task (Windows).

Depending on your server hardware and resources, you may decide whether to run it every 1 minute or every 24 hours. Nonetheless, Feng Office will also let you decide how often you would like to perform some actions, but if there is no cron or scheduled task running behind, everything would be rather useless. 

===== Setting up a Cron job (Linux) =====

You will need to create a cron job that has to runs periodically and executes the FENG_ROOT/cron.php file. 

You may do it by accessing your crontab, running the following command:
<code> crontab -e </code>

Then you would have to insert the following line so that the cron runs every 5 minutes, for instance, and then save the changes:
<code>
#Run the Feng Office cron every 5 minutes
*/5 * * * * php FENG_ROOT/cron.php
</code>

Please bear in mind that where it says FENG_ROOT, it means the directory where Feng Office has been placed.

===== Setting up a Scheduled task (Windows) =====

In Windows, Cron jobs are called Scheduled tasks, which should also be running every certain amount of time and executing the following file as well:

FENG_ROOT\cron.php

When you [[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308569|create your scheduled task from your Control Panel]], you will have to make it so that PHP calls the FENG_ROOT\cron.php file

For instance:
<code>
c:\PHP_ROOT\php.exe c:\FENG_ROOT\cron.php
</code>