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1. How to Trigger a job in Orchestrator based on availability of files in a local folder? 2. How to schedule a job to run at a particular time on just that day? Not recurring schedule. Just one time schedule.

  1. Trigger a job in Orchestrator based on availability of files in a local folder
Resolution: There is no direct feature in Orchestrator but it can be achieved from Studio.
  1. Use monitor events & file change trigger activity and implement file check validation & your logical implementation as per your scenario.
  2. Post that use the below Orchestrator API to start Job in any robot from workflow, or use HTTP request activity to invoke the API from the workflow to a start job on specific Robot.
Find below link for Orchestrator API guide,

  1. How to schedule a job to run at a particular time on just that day? Not recurring schedule. Just one time schedule .
Resolution: Yes, it is possible to schedule a job to run at a particular time using Cron expression from Advanced tab in triggers. Build the expression for example 0 0 6 6 9 ? 2020 i.e At 06:00 AM, on day 6 of the month, only in September, only in 2020.
Use cron trigger tutorial to build own expressions Crontrigger.html .