Schedule a recipe

[MurugarajSa]

Hi,

I have to schedule a recipe to run every 4 hours starting from 11 AM in Timezone America/New_York(-05:00).

I am able to provide value to run every 4 hours but I am not able to provide starting time.

Your suggestion would be greatful for me.

Thanks

[gary1 · Accepted solution]

Maybe there is a smarter way to do this, but when I need a recipe to run at specific times, I make multiple recipes with a Scheduler trigger set to the specific time that I want. The Scheduler recipe then calls the recipe function I want to run (and, as a best practice, I always create recipes as functions that are called by other recipes. There are many advantages to this approach, but mainly it makes recipes easier to maintain and troubleshoot.) 

Using the Scheduler like this ensures that the recipe ALWAYS runs at the EXACT time I want it to. Turning the recipe on/off doesn't affect the timing, and there is otherwise no drift in the timing. 

In your case, I would do this:

1. Recipe 1 at 11 AM
2. Recipe 2 at 3 PM
3. Recipe 3 at 7 PM
4. Recipe 4 at 11 PM

And so on...

[gary1 · Accepted solution]

Maybe there is a smarter way to do this, but when I need a recipe to run at specific times, I make multiple recipes with a Scheduler trigger set to the specific time that I want. The Scheduler recipe then calls the recipe function I want to run (and, as a best practice, I always create recipes as functions that are called by other recipes. There are many advantages to this approach, but mainly it makes recipes easier to maintain and troubleshoot.) 

Using the Scheduler like this ensures that the recipe ALWAYS runs at the EXACT time I want it to. Turning the recipe on/off doesn't affect the timing, and there is otherwise no drift in the timing. 

In your case, I would do this:

1. Recipe 1 at 11 AM
2. Recipe 2 at 3 PM
3. Recipe 3 at 7 PM
4. Recipe 4 at 11 PM

And so on...

[Prajwal]

Hi @MurugarajSa ,

Following @gary1's advice, opting for that method seems more efficient than creating individual schedulers for multiple recipes.

If you insist on setting up a scheduler for your recipe and desire to establish a 'start after' time, ensure the recipe status should be 'never active'. Meaning, you cannot set a start-after field if the recipe has already executed several jobs of 'inactive' status as shown in the below pic.

To address this issue, simply make a copy of that recipe and configure the 'start after' field accordingly.

[shivakumara]

Hi @MurugarajSa ,

Once a recipe has already run, it's not possible to set a Start_after field. In such cases, one option is to clone the recipe and provide a value for the field. 

Here I  Provided a screenshots which contains 1. After cloning the recipe 2. Before cloning the recipe  3. Talk about description where it states "Start_after" date cannot be set once the recipe has started. After Cloning RecipeBefore Cloning Recipe

[girish-naralla · Accepted solution]

Hi Murugaraja,

You can use the custom schedule there and you can use this cron expression ( 0 11/4 * * * ) and than you can select the timezone as America/New_York(-05:00).

Thanks.