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title: Jobs
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label: Jobs
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order: 40
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desc: A Job is a set of work that is offloaded from your APIs and will be processed at a later date.
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keywords: jobs queue, application framework, typescript, node, react, nextjs
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---
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Now that we have covered Tasks and Workflows, we can tie them together with a concept called a Job.
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<Banner type="default">
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Whereas you define Workflows and Tasks, which control your business logic, a
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**Job** is an individual instance of either a Task or a Workflow which
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contains many tasks.
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</Banner>
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For example, let's say we have a Workflow or Task that describes the logic to sync information from Payload to a third-party system. This is how you'd declare how to sync that info, but it wouldn't do anything on its own. In order to run that task or workflow, you'd create a Job that references the corresponding Task or Workflow.
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Jobs are stored in the Payload database in the `payload-jobs` collection, and you can decide to keep a running list of all jobs, or configure Payload to delete the job when it has been successfully executed.
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#### Queuing a new job
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In order to queue a job, you can use the `payload.jobs.queue` function.
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Here's how you'd queue a new Job, which will run a `createPostAndUpdate` workflow:
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```ts
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const createdJob = await payload.jobs.queue({
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// Pass the name of the workflow
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workflow: 'createPostAndUpdate',
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// The input type will be automatically typed
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// according to the input you've defined for this workflow
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input: {
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title: 'my title',
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},
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})
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```
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In addition to being able to queue new Jobs based on Workflows, you can also queue a job for a single Task:
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```ts
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const createdJob = await payload.jobs.queue({
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task: 'createPost',
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input: {
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title: 'my title',
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},
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})
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```
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#### Cancelling Jobs
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Payload allows you to cancel jobs that are either queued or currently running. When cancelling a running job, the current task will finish executing, but no subsequent tasks will run. This happens because the job checks its cancellation status between tasks.
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##### Cancel a Single Job
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To cancel a specific job, use the `payload.jobs.cancelByID` method with the job's ID:
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```ts
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await payload.jobs.cancelByID({
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id: createdJob.id,
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})
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```
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##### Cancel Multiple Jobs
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To cancel multiple jobs at once, use the `payload.jobs.cancel` method with a `Where` query:
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```ts
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await payload.jobs.cancel({
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where: {
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workflowSlug: {
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equals: 'createPost',
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},
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},
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})
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```
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