Scheduling a automation

[Vaibhav_Shukla]

Hi @UiPath_Community

I have a scenario for scheduling automation for below mentioned scenario:
we need to run a bot after every 5 min of its last execution end time… for example if automation end at 10:30 then it should again start at 10:35…
but we do not have fix time that when it will end
Bot need to start at 6 AM IST morning and once its execution complete then again it need to start after 5 min, and like this it needs to go till 12 PM IST.

Can someone please help how we can schedule this ??

Thanks,
Vaibhav

[Anil_G (Anil Gorthi)]

@Vaibhav_Shukla

schedule at 6 am in the morning and have a start job activity at the end of your automation or in end state to start the next job after 5 mins..have a condition to check if time crosses 12 then dont schedule else schedule it

cheers

[V_Roboto_V]

Hi @Vaibhav_Shukla

I’m not sure whether my idea is efficient, but here is what i have in mind:

In Orchestrator:

1. Time Trigger of 6:00 AM IST
2. Setup an Event Trigger to run the process when a Mail is received.

In Workflow:

1. Check if Mail received to trigger the run is sent before 12:00 PM IST, if not then terminate run. (If no mail found and current Time is before 12:00 PM IST, then it the 6:00 AM Run)
2. Give a 5 minute delay in the beginning of the workflow.
3. In end of the workflow, send a Mail to start the next run.

[sharazkm32 (Sharaz K M)]

I like the solution

but could you please share the activities used for starting the next job after 5 minutes. I checked start process / process start trigger but there is no option to configure after 5 minutes

[prashant1603765 (Prashant Kumar)]

Hi @Vaibhav_Shukla

Try below 2methods:-

In Orchestrator), create a schedule starting at 6:00 AM IST using the Cron expression */5 6-11 * * * to trigger the bot every hour between 6 AM and 11 AM. In the workflow, use the Get DateTime Now activity to check the time and stop the execution after 12:00 PM IST.

OR

Try to use a Do While loop starting at 6 AM IST. Inside the loop, use the Invoke Workflow activity to run the bot, followed by a Delay activity for 5 minutes. Check the time with Get DateTime Now and stop the loop after 12 PM IST.

If You found helpful, feel free to mark as a solution!

[Anil_G (Anil Gorthi)]

@sharazkm32

Thanks for quickly bringing up

@Vaibhav_Shukla

a quick update as start job does not have the time change…schedule api is what we need to use via orchestrator http request..another option is add a queue item with postpone time so that the queue items become available after 5 mins…also one thing to note here the queue check time should be reduced to 5 mins if going with queue route

Programmatically Job Scheduling

@fjrueda, Assuming your use case is to schedule a job at a given day and hour, you will still need to create the trigger as it is what orchestrator will use to trigger the process. So, what you need to do in your api call is update such trigger to be launched exactly when you need, to accomplish that you need to send a cron expression rather than the default values. An example of a use case I have: I created a regular trigger in orchestrator and left it disabled [image] [image] Then my …

cheers

[sharazkm32 (Sharaz K M)]

Hi @Vaibhav_Shukla

Is it mandatory to have the 5 minutes gap between each run??