Understanding cron expressions in workflows – DailyBot Support Center

The workflow event "Scheduled Task is triggered" uses cron expressions to function, but what are these expressions about?

A cron expression is a string consisting of five to seven subexpressions (fields) that describe individual details of a schedule. According to crontab.guru, a visualization of these fields looks like this:

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The expression from above (see in crontab) uses five fields separated by spaces to represent minutes, hours, days of the month, month, and days of the week, in that order.

Given this, an expression with the fields [30] [9] [15] [8-11] [*] means “At 09:30 on day-of-month 15 in every month from August through November,” if we take into consideration these special parameters:

*	any value
,	value list separator
-	range of values
/	step values

That's it. Now you can use cron expressions to express your own schedules within workflows. Try it out!

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