Schedule the bot on every 28th of the month

[jeevith (Jeevith Hegde, Ph.D.)]

Hello @Fresher,

There is a thread similar to this one. I would advice you go through it as well. There are workarounds to achieve this but no straight forward way.

Condition in Cron Expression Possible?

Hi @vboddu @loginerror, I read up a little on Uipath Documentation for cron jobs, but I dont think what you asked is currently “entirely” possible. Let me explain. The closest expression I could write to meet your condition with the v2020.4 is: 0 0 0-6 5W# * ? Between 12:00 AM and 06:59 AM, on the weekday nearest to day 5 of the every month. The above expression suits your requirement if the 5th of month is a Saturday, then the job will run on the 4th, which will be a Friday. The challenge…

If you find the documentation at UiPath difficult to understand while building cron expressions, you can use the link posted by @Maneesha_de_silva and build expressions in Quartz format. Why this particular link? Because UiPath has used the same library “Quartz” to implement the cron expression in orchestrator using the .Net version. The expression you build in the link will be valid in UiPath orchestrator as well.

But why is this difficult?
The limitation with quartz library is that it does not allow two simultaneous filters at the same time (day of month (number) and day of week (number / number range or string / string array)). You can either run on the 28 of every month or run on specific days of the week, not both. The “W” parameter is a remedy for some situations, but not in your case. That said, even a normal cron expression in Linux will need to have additional logic to get the result you are looking for.

Hope this clears some doubts.