# System Commands

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**  \
     

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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**  <br>

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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**  <br>

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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.](https://351543775-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-LC8ka5nvI3WmivYwQ6i%2F-LCCBs8LA6_XqzyQ9wBC%2F-LCCD_2h8YIAVbplyujm%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=c0c98181-c726-488d-aa3b-2ba3b53c8495)

Example:\
To schedule a task to fetch your asana tasks everyday at 10:00 AM<br>

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To list the cron jobs you have:<br>

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

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