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Cron Trigger

A Cron trigger executes a workflow without any user interaction nor does it require external events to trigger the workflow.

Cron Expression​

Cron expressions are strings that represent a set of times, using 6 fields separated by white space. The fields are, in order:

  1. Seconds
  2. Minutes
  3. Hours
  4. Day of month
  5. Month
  6. Day of week
┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
│ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
│ │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
│ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12)
│ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6) (Sunday to Saturday)
│ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │ │
* * * * *

Examples:

  • * * * * *

    • Every minute

  • */30 * * * *

    • Every 30 minutes

  • 45 * * * *

    • On the 45th minute of every hour

  • 0 17 * * 1

    • 5PM on Sunday

  • 10 7 * * 2-6

    • 7:10AM on weekdays

  • 0 15 1 * *

    • 3PM on first day of the month
Timezone

On ExecAPI, all time is relative to UTC time zone.