Scheduled tasks quickstart

• Modifying prices in a store according to the time of the day.
• Updating title data to reflect changes for a current event.
• Injecting virtual currencies into the game economy daily, etc.

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Step 1 - Prepare the CloudScript

• Select Automation in the menu to the left.
• On the CloudScript Revisions tab add a new CloudScript function called adjustRareDropRate with a simple call to the SetTitleData API as shown in the code snippet and image below.

handlers.adjustRareDropRate = function(args) {
    // Tutorial demo CloudScript
    serverAPI.SetTitleData({
        "Key": "rareDropRate",
        "Value": args.dropRate
    });
}

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Step 2 - Create a scheduled task

• Go to the Scheduled Tasks tab.
• Select New Scheduled Task on the upper-right corner of your screen.
• This will bring up the Create Task view.
• In the Type of task field, choose Run a CloudScript function.
• Below that, you’ll be able to pick a function from the currently deployed revision of CloudScript, and specify arguments to pass in.
• Choose the adjustRareDropRate Handler that you wrote in the previous step.

• Select On a schedule (UTC) under the SCHEDULE header.
• A simple schedule builder lets you choose when the Task should run (every hour, day, week, etc).
• For this example, we would like an advanced schedule, where we can specify which days of the week to run the task.
• So select CRON EXPRESSION.

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Step 3 - Test the task

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Step 4 - Check the results of the test run

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Step 5 - Test again (successfully)

handlers.adjustRareDropRate = function(args) {
    // Tutorial demo CloudScript
    server.SetTitleData({
        "Key": "rareDropRate",
        "Value": args.dropRate
    });
}

• Select Content in the menu to the left.
• Go to the Title Data tab.
• Verify that the Title Data entry was actually set.