By using Scheduler Jobs, you can set batch jobs to be completed at regular intervals. From this page you can schedule, modify or delete jobs. You may also manually run selected jobs by accessing the list of Scheduler Jobs.
Beginning at the main screen, select Admin, then System from the drop-down menu. This will launch the Systemmenu.
Select Scheduler Jobs.
View Scheduler Jobs
Once you have navigated to the Scheduler Jobs page Mifos will generate a list of all scheduled batch jobs. You may select a job from the list by clicking on it in the list, it will be highlighted in blue when the cursor is hovering over it.
Once you have opened the job's detail page you may Edit the job and/or View History for the selected job.
To Edit a job click the blue Edit button at the top-right of the job description screen.
At this screen you may:
Change the job`s name
Alter the Cron expression from the selected job
Activate or Deactivate the selected job
Activate or deactivate a job by clicking on the box to the right of "Is job active?"
If there is a check mark in the box - it is active. If not, click on the empty box to activate the selected job.
Explanation of each Scheduler Job
Job Name
Purpose/Description
Scheduled Time for Execution
Add Accrual Transactions
Apply Annual Fee for Savings
It applies recurrent fee- that is annual fee - for all savings accounts of the clients which are attached with annual fee. You can create annual fee ( or any other recurrent fee like monthly fee) for savings account in Admin>Products>Charges and later add it either directly savings product or at the time of submission of savings application.
Apply Holidays to Loans
If new 'future' holiday is created (say, February 1) and if this job is run successfully(say on January 15) , it should affect all the repayments scheduled on February 1 and must be postponed to the date described by holiday definition.
Apply penalty to overdue loans
This job once run successfully applies penalty to all overdue loans based on the penalty definition. The penalties could be daily , weekly or monthly based penalty charge definition.