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title: Scheduling tasks
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/k10/custom-development/miscellaneous-custom-development-tasks/scheduling-custom-tasks.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

The **Scheduled tasks** application allows you to configure how the system executes automatic tasks. Scheduled tasks can be useful when you need to perform operations at a specific time or regularly over a certain time period. Many Kentico features leverage scheduled tasks.

## Configuring scheduled task settings

To configure scheduled task settings:

1. Open the **Settings** application.
2. Select the **System** category.
3. Adjust the settings in the **Scheduler** section.
4. Click **Save**.

## Managing scheduled tasks

To work with individual scheduled tasks, open the **Scheduled tasks** application.

Two types of tasks are available:

- **Global** - affect the entire system (global features and objects). Only available for users with the Global administrator [privilege level](https://docs.kentico.com/k10/managing-users/user-management.md). Choose the **(global)** option in the **Site** selector.
- **Site-related** - tasks that affect content related to the selected **Site.**

![Managing scheduled tasks for a site](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k10/scheduling-tasks/Scheduled_Tasks.png "Managing scheduled tasks for a site")

> **Info:** The **System tasks** tab provides an overview of temporary tasks created dynamically by the system. System tasks internally provide functionality for various Kentico features. You cannot manually create system tasks.