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System Commands in YellowAnt let you administer and control your YellowAnt account. YellowAnt has three main system commands:
1.
yellowant
YellowAnt is the system administrator application. It is basically used to fetch and update your user information.
You can perform the following actions using this:
a. Change application invoke name: Used to change the name of the application invoke name from "yellowant" to whatever the user wishes to call it.
b. Get User First Name: Fetches the first name of the registered user.
c. Get user time zone: Fetches the time zone of the user.
d. Set user First Name: Changes the first name of the user.
e. Set user time zone: Sets the time zone of the user.
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2.
help
The help command in YellowAnt lets the user fetch important information about how to use a particular function or perform a certain action. The help command can be used in three ways:
a. As a means to get assistance with YellowAnt platform. Used as meta-function to get information about their general configuration with respect to YellowAnt.
Command: help  
  
b. As a means to get assistance with a particular application. Using this lets you learn about the functions or actions available for an application/integration.
Command: help "appname"
Example: help gmail  

c. As a means to get very specific information about how a particular function of an application works. You can see how to execute it and what parameters are required to execute it.
Command: help "appname" "functionname"
Example: help gmail send  

3. cron  
The "cron" system function is used to schedule an action/function execution at a specific time. It can be used to create a one-time executable or a recurring executable. You can schedule a function to be executed at a particular time of the day weekly, hourly or only once.
You start with the command "cron" which gives you three functions:
a. Delete a Cron job: Used to delete already scheduled jobs.  
b. List user Cron jobs: Used to list scheduled jobs of the user.  
c. Schedule a Cron Job: There are multiple ways to schedule jobs on YellowAnt.
To fetch all functions under cron functionality.
Example:
To schedule a task to fetch your asana tasks everyday at 10:00 AM

To list the cron jobs you have:

To delete already scheduled tasks, you can list and hit the "delete" button or use the delete function to do the same:

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