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Configure and run cron

Overview of cron

Several Magento features require at least one cron job, which schedules activities to occur in the future. A partial list of these activities follows:

Catalog price rules
Newsletters
Generating Google sitemaps
Customer Alerts/Notifications (product price change, product back in stock)
Reindexing
Private sales (Magento Commerce only)
Automatic

In certain circumstances, and only with some hosting providers, it may occur that the foreign keys required by Shopware are lost.

The model generation of attribute models requires these keys, so that the attributes can be created correctly.

This can lead to error messages like the following: