Applies to

• Collections

• Data Targets

• Workflows

Schedule settings are on the Advanced tab.

Open

Custom Schedule

The schedule field allows for custom schedules to be built. While the most commonly used scheduling options are available within Presets, anything outside of those can be customized (e.g. running a workflow every 5 minutes between the hours of 1pm - 2pm every weekday).

The scheduler utilizes cron for customization. The format will be five sections separated by spaces ( * * * * * ). The first section represents minute; the second represents hour; the third represents day (month); the fourth represents month; and the fifth represents day (week). Visit https://crontab.guru/ for more information

Examples

5 5 5 5 5 - (At 05:05 AM, on day 5 of the month, and on Friday, only in May)

0-55/5 13-14 * * 1-5 - (Every 5 minutes, minutes 0 through 55 past the hour, between 01:00 PM and 02:59 PM, Monday through Friday)

0 9,12,16 1,10,20 1,2,3 * - (At 09:00 AM, 12:00 PM and 04:00 PM, on day 1, 10, and 20 of the month, only in January, February, and March)

Scheduling Presets

Open

1. Every X minutes

2. Every Hour

3. Every day at a specific time

4. On a specific day of the month

5. On a specific day of the week

Every X Minutes

Use to schedule a job for multiple times a day.

Select an interval in minutes, between 1 and 59.

Every Hour

Use to schedule at the top of every hour

Every day at a specific time

Use for scheduling jobs to run once a day.

On a specific day of the month

Use for scheduling once or more per month, at a specific time of day.

On a specific day of the week

Use for scheduling once or more per week.

Pausing a Schedule

Scheduled jobs can be temporarily paused by setting the Is Paused toggle to True and saving the component. The configured schedule is preserved and can be restarted by setting the Is Paused toggle to False.

Additional Notes

1. Running a job manually does not reset the schedule; a collection set to run every 5 minutes at 1:05, 1:10, 1:15, etc. will continue to run on that schedule even if the collection is run manually at 1:08.

2. The DataBlend server uses Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) to schedule jobs. Eastern standard time is typically 4 hours behind UTC. World clock is one of many websites make it easy to calculate the UTC time from local time.

3. Workflow, Collection and Data Target schedules are independent. A scheduled workflow will run each associated collection and target in turn. If a collection or target is scheduled as part of a workflow but it also has a schedule configured, it will be run as scheduled by the workflow and again as scheduled by itself. to match its own configuration.