Obsidian Scheduled Tasks update has less functionlity due to cron style Version 18.0.25 Update #2
Version 18.0.25 Update #2 Windows
New Cron style schedule tasks. This was such a poorly thought out feature to implement and as such a bad one.
It's great that Plesk want's to standardise the control panel between platforms but now in the case of Windows servers the experience is worse than before. Previously there were checkboxes that you could tick, so if you wanted a task to execute every 5 minutes then you could just ticket the appropriate boxes.
Now in attempt to bring cron style to Windows without the / character this has become really laborious having to enter 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * *. There should have been compensation for the / character in Windows and Plesk should have translated this behind the scenes instead of the user. Plesk on Windows should detect the / character, work out the increments, produce a comma separated list and use that, the user should be unaware of this.
So it's cron but not cron and as such Windows servers have a feature that's worse than and not as good as it was before.
So for Plesk for Windows either make it so that it's real cron style without the laborious workaround or bring back the old tick boxes, no half measures, it either is or it isn't
Pete Batin
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