Advanced scheduling using Cron Expression

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Hello Everyone, Hope you are doing good

What is Cron Expression?

  • Cron expressions are used to configure instances of Cron Trigger, a subclass of Trigger.
  • Cron expression is a string consisting of six or seven subexpressions (fields) that describe individual details of the schedule.

Quartz implements 7 field cron-expressions

  • Seconds
  • Minutes
  • Hours
  • Day-of-Month
  • Month
  • Day-of-Week
  • Year (optional field)
1. Cron expression to trigger the process for Every month & day between 7th and 13th at 7:30

Expression : 0 30 7 7-13 * ? *

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2. Cron expression to trigger the process for Every day every 30 min between 9:00 - 16:00

Expression : 0 0,30/0,30 8-12 ? * *

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3. Cron expression to trigger the process for Every month between January and December on the 1st day at 00:30

Expression : 0 30 0 1 1-12 ? *

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4. Cron expression to trigger the process for Every month between January and May at 14:45

Expression : 0 45 14 ? 1-5 * *

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5. Cron expression to trigger the process for Every month & day between Monday and Friday at 10:20

Expression : 0 20 10 ? * 2-6 *

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6. Cron expression to trigger the process for Every month Sunday and Saturday at 10:00 PM

Expression : 0 0 20 ? * SUN,SAT *

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Reference Link

https://forum.uipath.com/t/troubleshooting-guide-understanding-cron-expressions/307103

You can try to generate the CRON in this link

Hope this will be helpful :slight_smile:

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Regards
Gokul

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Thanks for the information about cron expression and it’s helpful

@Gokul001

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Thanks for helpful post :slight_smile:

When Cron uses 24 hours format it’s even more logical to use 24h in rest of Orchestrator. Anyone knows how to select this?