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You can schedule your function's execution using the Time-based Trigger available in the settings panel. It allows you to trigger the function Every x minutes or using a Crontab expression:

Every x minutes

You may trigger a function at periodic time intervals, expresses in minutes. This trigger method will run the UbiFunction's main function. The minimum and maximum values admisible by this field are 1 and 60 minutes, respectively.

Crontab expression

A cron expression is a string consisting of five subexpressions (fields) that describe individual details of the schedule. These fields, separated by white space, can contain any of the allowed values with various combinations of the allowed characters for that field.

Field
Values
Wildcards

Minutes

0-59

, - * /

Hours

0-23

, - * /

Day-of-month

1-31

, - * /

Month

1-12 or JAN-DEC

, - * /

Day-of-week

1-7 or SUN-SAT

, - * /

Wildcards

Wildcard
Description
Example

comma ","

List of allowed values

In the Month field, JAN,FEB,MAR includes January, February, and March.

dash "-"

Range of allowed values

In the Day field, 1-15 includes days 1 through 15 of the specified month.

asterisk "*"

Includes all values in the field

In the Hours field, * includes every hour

slash "/"

Specifies increments

In the Minutes field, you could enter 1/10 to specify every tenth minute, starting from the first minute of the hour.

Limitations

  • Cron expressions that lead to rates faster than 1 minute are not supported.

Examples

You can use the following sample cron strings when creating a rule with schedule:

Minutes
Hours
Month day
Month
Week day
Meaning

0

10

*

*

*

Run at 10:00 am (UTC+0) every day

15

12

*

*

*

Run at 12:15 pm (UTC+0) every day

0

18

*

*

MON-FRI

Run at 6:00 pm (UTC+0) every Monday through Friday

0

8

1

*

*

Run at 8:00 am (UTC+0) every 1st day of the month

0/15

*

*

*

*

Run every 15 minutes

0/10

*

*

*

MON-FRI

Run every 10 minutes Monday through Friday

0/5

8-17

*

*

MON-FRI

Run every 5 minutes Monday through Friday between 8:00 am and 5:55 pm (UTC+0)

0/30

20-2

*

*

MON-FRI

Run every 30 minutes Monday through Friday between 10:00 pm on the starting day to 2:00 am on the following day (UTC)

Run from 12:00 am to 2:00 am on Monday morning (UTC).

You can to test your crontab expressions.

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