Background Tasks Unleashed (BTU) v13

For details, please read the project's Official Documentation.

If you're looking for its companion application, the BTU Scheduler, that project is maintained on a separate GitHub site.

What is this?

Background Tasks Unleashed is:

• a Frappe Framework application for Task Scheduling and Automation.

• a tool for running tasks or processes automatically, on a repeating schedule, in the background of your Frappe web application.

• a robust alternative to the out-of-the-box Scheduled Job Types feature in Frappe v13+

Capabilities

Using only your web browser, take full control of the BTU application. No need to SSH and modify hooks.py.

• Tasks organize your reusable jobs, enabling you to run any Python function (standard or custom) and pass your own arguments.
• Schedules will run Tasks in the background, at any cadence required (FYI, we can do cron...with timezones!)
• Logs give you visibility into your Task history. Not just success or fail, but the complete standard output and errors.

You can also:

• Run any Task on-demand.
• When a scheduled Task completes, automatically receive an email notification (including CC and BCC)
• Use an included CLI application to interact with the BTU from a shell terminal, instead of your web browser.

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Installation

A complete Installation Guide is available on BTU's GitHub Pages site.

Linux Prerequisites

apt install pkg-config libsystemd-dev

Copyright and License

• Background Tasks Unleashed (BTU) is licensed MIT. (See LICENSE.md file)
• Copyright 2022, Datahenge LLC
• Maintainer: Brian Pond brian@datahenge.com