Commands & Tasks

Fixture management Commands

• ./manage.py load_essential_data. Loads important fixtures that are used in all environments, such as counties, organizations, and groups. For more information about using and maintaining these fixtures, see
• ./manage.py new_fixtures. Reloads essential data and then creates fake seed data (applications, users) for each organization and loads that seed data.

Regularly-Scheduled Tasks

All scheduled tasks are run using django-celery-beat and a clock process on Heroku.

• ./manage.py alert_admins_if_org_has_unread_applications. Run on the 1st of the month at 11pm Pacific. This task sends an email to clearmyrecord-alerts alerting us of any organizations that have unread applications.
• ./manage.py send_unopened_apps_notification. Run on weekdays at 7am, this checks for unread applications and sends each organization an email about the amount of new applications that are waiting for them. It then sends a slack notification reporting on the totals for each organization.
• ./manage.py send_followups. Run on weekdays at 7am PST, this task sends an email to any user at an organization that doesn't use status notifications.

Other tasks

• ./manage.py create_email_forwarding_for_users. This creates route forwarding rules in Mailgun, generating @clearmyrecord.org email accounts for each existing user profile that forward to the users' login emails.