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CRON jobs & Learning Plans

 
Arnet Tkachuk
CRON jobs & Learning Plans
door Arnet Tkachuk - Monday, 9 March 2015, 10:04 AM
 

Hello,

I'm testing with a client the creation of automated assigned learning plans with competencies/courses attached. When a rule is created to assign via the position, it is immediate when you update the audience, and you can see the courses/competencies within the designated Learning Plan. However, when you do the same at the organization level (assign an automated LP), there seems to be a delay. 

The client I am working with did this on Friday, he came in this morning and the Learnings Plans appeared with all the courses/competencies attached to them, which is good! of course, but clearly from a testing perspective it makes it look like it doesn't work because of the delay.  Is there a specific CRON for the assignments via an organization that we are not aware of? I'm not understanding why the delay in the auto-assignment of Learning Plans with the courses/competencies attached to users based on their organization at this point.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,

Arnet

 

 

 

 

Craig Eves
Re: CRON jobs & Learning Plans
door Craig Eves (Totara Support) - Sunday, 15 March 2015, 14:27 PM
Groep Totara

Hi Arnet

It does sound like a cron setting for the Learning Plan assignment is causing this delay. To test this out you can usually run the cron manually by typing in yoursitename/admin/cron.php

It is possible to adjust the frequency of these . I checked in the latest version 2.7 which has a Scheduled tasks that lets you adjust these and displays  the frequency. The only setting around Learning Plans is process plan autocompletion with the default of running ASAP so not sure if you the learning plan assignment can be made more frequent.

I think there is some documentation on the cron frequency for earlier versions but I haven't been able to locate this

There are some instructions on changing the frequency on http://help.totaralms.com/totara_v2.6_help/Cron.htm

regards