Lets say you have a scheduled task which runs every week, you want to run it now, but it also takes 10 minutes. I don't need to watch it run, and I don't want to risk browser time outs. I just want cron to do its thing but ahead of time.

Current state:

Proposed state:

How do you want to run the task 'Send administrator audit reminder emails'?

'Run now' - The task will run on the web server and may take some time to complete

'Schedule now' - Task will scheduled to run asap by cron in the background

Cancel

You can work around this by resetting the schedule, and then letting it run and swap it back but its fairly tedious.