Simple & Advanced modes
Cronable’s dashboard runs in two interface modes and in eight languages. Both are display choices — they change how much the UI shows you and what language it’s in, never what your jobs can do. This guide covers both, plus the guided job wizard you get in Simple mode.
Simple vs Advanced
On first launch the app asks which mode you’d like. You can switch anytime from the control in the header, and your choice is remembered per browser — so your laptop and a shared ops screen can be set differently, and each person on the same install picks their own.
| Simple | Advanced | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it’s for | Getting started; occasional edits; anyone who wants the short version. | Power users; fine-tuning; anyone comfortable with the full toolset. |
| Creating a job | A guided wizard walks you through it, one question at a time. | A node plus the full editor form, all fields at once. |
| Field wording | Friendly labels and hints (“What should Claude do?”). | The precise field names used throughout these docs. |
| What’s shown | Just the essentials — advanced knobs are hidden to keep it clean. | Everything: the schedule builder, environment variables, retry/timeout, failure handlers, expression macros. |
A job you build in Simple mode is the exact same file an Advanced user edits directly — switching modes never changes, moves, or deletes anything. Build something in Simple mode, then flip to Advanced later to tune a timeout, a retry policy, or an expression — every control is there.
The guided job wizard
In Simple mode, Add job opens a guided, step-by-step wizard instead of a form full of fields. Each step is shown large, asks one thing at a time in plain language, and only requests what your chosen job type actually needs. Move forward step by step; the last step creates the job.
- Pick the type first. You choose what the job does — for example Give Claude a task, Call a web address, Run a command, or Send a message. A job’s type is chosen at creation and locked afterward: to switch to a different type you create a new job.
- Answer only what’s needed. Different types ask different questions — an AI-agent job asks for a task and a folder; an HTTP job asks which address to call and what data to send.
- Say when it should run. A “When should it run?” step lets you give the job a schedule (daily, hourly, weekly, monthly), leave it to run only when you press play, or run it after another job finishes. You can always change the schedule later.
- Sensible defaults for the rest. Anything the wizard didn’t ask about uses a sensible default, which you can adjust later in Advanced mode.
Note. This job-creation wizard is separate from the first-run setup screen that creates your initial admin account when you install — that one runs once, before you have any jobs.
Languages
The dashboard is available in eight languages:
English · German · Russian · Spanish · Italian · French · Portuguese · Mandarin
- Pick your language from the header. The choice is remembered per browser, so each person using the same install can read it in their own language.
- English is the fallback. If a piece isn’t translated yet in your language, it shows in English — the app never breaks or shows blanks while translations catch up.
- Job types speak your language too. Built-in job types — and extensions that ship their own translations — show their names, field labels, and wizard steps in the language you picked.
Changing the language is display-only: it doesn’t touch your jobs, schedules, or data.
Where to next
- Build your first job: the Quickstart.
- Every field, by job type: the Job reference.
- Pass data between jobs: Expressions & data flow.
- Add a job type of your own: Extensions.