> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://devdocs.xbox.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Run Task > Run a task immediately regardless of its schedule. ## Error codes This operation may return the following PlayFab errors: | Error | Code | | --- | --- | | TaskNotFound | 1261 | ## OpenAPI ````yaml /services/playfab/api-references/rest/admin/admin.openapi.json post /Admin/RunTask openapi: 3.0.0 info: version: '260922' title: PlayFab Admin API description: >- APIs for managing title configurations, uploaded Game Server code executables, and user data termsOfService: https://playfab.com/terms/ contact: url: https://community.playfab.com/index.html license: name: Apache 2.0 url: https://github.com/PlayFab/API_Specs/blob/master/LICENSE servers: - url: https://{titleId}.playfabapi.com description: PlayFab title endpoint variables: titleId: default: your_title_id description: Your PlayFab title ID (hex). security: [] tags: - name: Account Management description: Account Management APIs - name: Authentication description: Authentication APIs - name: Characters description: Characters APIs - name: Content description: Content Service APIs - name: Custom Server Management description: Custom Server Management APIs - name: Matchmaking description: Matchmaking APIs - name: Player Data Management description: Player Data Management APIs - name: Player Item Management description: Player Item Management APIs - name: PlayStream description: PlayStream Management APIs - name: ScheduledTask description: Task management APIs - name: Segments description: Segment management APIs - name: Server-Side Cloud Script description: Server-Side Cloud Script APIs - name: Shared Group Data description: Shared Group Data APIs - name: Title-Wide Data Management description: Title-Wide Data Management APIs - name: Xbox Store description: Xbox Store APIs paths: /Admin/RunTask: post: tags: - ScheduledTask summary: Run Task description: | Run a task immediately regardless of its schedule. ## Error codes This operation may return the following PlayFab errors: | Error | Code | | --- | --- | | TaskNotFound | 1261 | operationId: RunTask requestBody: content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/RunTaskRequest' description: >- The returned task instance ID can be used to query for task execution status. responses: '200': $ref: '#/components/responses/RunTaskResult' '400': $ref: '#/components/responses/ApiErrorWrapper' security: - SecretKey: [] components: schemas: RunTaskRequest: description: >- The returned task instance ID can be used to query for task execution status. type: object properties: CustomTags: description: >- The optional custom tags associated with the request (e.g. build number, external trace identifiers, etc.). type: object Identifier: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/NameIdentifier' description: Provide either the task ID or the task name to run a task. example: Identifier: Id: E1772FD927D8539D NameIdentifier: description: >- Identifier by either name or ID. Note that a name may change due to renaming, or reused after being deleted. ID is immutable and unique. type: object properties: Id: description: Id Identifier, if present type: string Name: description: Name Identifier, if present type: string example: Name: MyTask Id: d739e188-22f6-4d13-a4d5-df2e93d4d2f7 RunTaskResult: type: object properties: TaskInstanceId: description: >- ID of the task instance that is started. This can be used in Get*TaskInstance (e.g. GetCloudScriptTaskInstance) API call to retrieve status for the task instance. type: string example: TaskInstanceId: E52531B47B1761C7-4 ApiErrorWrapper: description: The basic wrapper around every failed API response type: object properties: code: description: Numerical HTTP code type: integer status: description: String HTTP code type: string error: description: Playfab error code type: string errorCode: description: Numerical PlayFab error code type: integer errorMessage: description: Description for the PlayFab errorCode type: string errorDetails: description: Detailed description of individual issues with the request object type: object required: - code - errorCode responses: RunTaskResult: description: '' content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: code: type: integer description: >- The Http status code. If X-ReportErrorAsSuccess header is set to true, this will report the actual http error code. status: type: string description: The Http status code as a string. data: $ref: '#/components/schemas/RunTaskResult' example: code: 200 status: OK data: TaskInstanceId: E52531B47B1761C7-4 ApiErrorWrapper: description: This is the outer wrapper for all responses with errors content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorWrapper' securitySchemes: SecretKey: type: apiKey in: header name: X-SecretKey description: >- This API requires a title secret key, available to title admins, from PlayFab Game Manager. ```` ## Related topics - [Run Task](/services/playfab/api-references/rest/admin/scheduled-task/run-task.md) - [Scheduled tasks quickstart](/services/playfab/data-analytics/acting-data/scheduled-tasks/quickstart.md) - [Generic async task wrapper](/build/core-features/common/async/async-task-function-example.md) - [Bulk Actions for an entire Player Segment](/services/playfab/data-analytics/acting-data/action-rules-bulk-actions-for-an-entire-player-segment.md) - [Run simple task example](/build/core-features/common/async/async-libraries/async-library-xasync-example-run-simple-task.md)