Workaround For A Biweekly CRON Schedule

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How to set up a trigger that launches every other/alternate week?

Advanced scheduling of the triggers in Orchestrator can be handled via CRON expressions. More information elaborated below:

However, there is not any direct CRON expression that is available for a biweekly schedule (skipping one week in between).

Below is a possible workaround for this situation:

  1. Create an asset in Orchestrator for initial run with a value to 1.
  2. Update your workflow and put one Get Asset activity in the very beginning of the workflow.
  3. Check its value if it is 1, then please proceed to the further execution, and at the end of the execution set the asset value to 0.
  4. If the value of the asset is 0, then set the asset value to 1 and come out of the execution.
  5. Create a weekly schedule for every Tuesday and it will work as expected.

This is just one possible workaround for the aforementioned use-case. Different logics can be designed as well, based on the requirement and feasibility.