Workato's Scheduler trigger is convenient for scheduling repeated tasks. Two types of clock triggers are provided:
- New Scheduled event: happens every X intervals (e.g. 5 minutes, 30 days, etc.)
- New Scheduled event (Advanced): happens at specified timings (e.g. 1:15pm every Monday and Tuesday)
1. New Scheduled Event (Basic)
New timer events are triggered at regular intervals. Simply select the intervals at which you wish for the recipe to run. This is usually best for monitoring-related use cases, such as checking how whether or not your customer service messages are being processed quickly enough (are there more than X unattended conversations in the last hour?). You can also set the time you want the recipe to start running using "Start at".
Note: Once the recipe has been started, changes to the "start at" field will not be registered. In order to change your "start at" field, please make a copy of your recipe by clicking copy.
This trigger is most useful as a dummy trigger for testing an action in a recipe. Do note that when using this trigger to test, you will need to re-run jobs from the jobs tab instead of clicking test again. Clicking test again will only work if the time specified in the "every" field has passed since the previous trigger event. Find out more on how to re-run jobs here.
2. New Scheduled Event (Advanced)
New scheduled event (advanced) are triggered at specific times. For instance, we might like our recipe to be triggered at 1:15pm every Monday and Tuesday. First, select the New Scheduled event (advanced)" trigger, and then add the "Hour" optional field.
Note: This trigger event should NOT be used for testing recipe logic - it would not make sense to have to wait until the specified time before you can run through your recipe actions for testing purposes. In other words, you should test your recipe logic using the basic scheduler to ensure your recipe would work before you implement the advanced scheduler function.
- In the "Hour" field, fill in 13.
- In the "Minute" field, fill in 15.
- Choose your timezone.
- Choose "yes" for Monday and Tuesday, and "no" for the rest.
Now, the recipe will run at 1:15pm every Monday and Tuesday.
What happens if I don't fill in the "Hour" field?In that case, your recipe will run at MM minutes, every hour of every day specified. In this example, on Monday and Tuesday, the recipe would be triggered at 0015, 0115, etc.