Schedules

A schedule triggers a package on a recurring basis, for example to synchronize data every night or to poll an external system every five minutes. Schedules are configured in the Schedules tab and linked to a package with a scheduled event. The package receives the event name scheduler.<trigger name> in the event standard variable.

Cron syntax

A schedule follows cron syntax. It consists of five space-separated parts:

*    *    *    *    *
┬    ┬    ┬    ┬    ┬
│    │    │    │    │
│    │    │    │    └ day of week (0 - 7) (0 or 7 is Sun)
│    │    │    └───── month (1 - 12)
│    │    └────────── day of month (1 - 31)
│    └─────────────── hour (0 - 23)
└──────────────────── minute (0 - 59)

Examples:

* * * * *           -> Every minute, every hour, every day
0 0 * * *           -> Every day at 00:00
5 * * * *           -> Every hour, 5 minutes past the full hour
*/5 * * * *         -> Every 5 minutes
20,30 1 * * 1-5     -> Monday to Friday at 01:20 and 01:30
8,12,17 * * 1,3,5   -> At 08:00, 12:00 and 17:00 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday