Schedules

A schedule runs a Flow action automatically on a cron expression. Common use cases are recurring integration runs, periodic data refreshes, and other background work that runs at set times.

Schedules are configured per Flow action, in the Triggers section at the top of the Flow action editor. A single Flow action can have any number of schedules. When triggered, the schedule runs the Flow action under the selected service account.

Important

• The selected service account must have permission to run the Flow action and any object class permissions required by the action. If the action updates a secret, that permission must also be granted.

• To change the Schedule, Time Zone, or Service Account of a saved schedule, first clear the Enabled checkbox. Re-enable the schedule when you are done.

Usage

Any task that needs to be run on a regular schedule is a candidate for a schedule.

• Fetch data from an external API every 15 minutes to populate a dashboard.

• Synchronize customer data with a CRM nightly at 2am.

• Refresh an OAuth access token used for integrations every 3 hours.

• Send a summary email every morning with the previous day's orders.

Properties

Property	Description
Schedule	The schedule on which the Flow action will be run, in the form of a cron expression. The expression is validated and an error is shown if it is not valid.
Time Zone	The time zone used by the schedule when evaluating the cron expression. Defaults to Europe/Oslo.
Service Account	The service account that will be used to run the Flow action.
Limit to Environments	By default a schedule will run on all enabled environments in a solution that have the Enable Scheduler checkbox selected under Environments. You can restrict which environments the schedule will run on by selecting this checkbox and then selecting the environments where the schedule should be enabled.
Enabled	Activate the schedule. This must be checked for the schedule to run.
Description	A longer description of the schedule. It may be useful to specify what the Flow action does and why it runs on this schedule.

Cron expression

A cron expression typically consists of five values separated by spaces, in this order, within the stated ranges.

• Minute (0–59)

• Hour (0–23)

• Day of month (1–31)

• Month (1–12)

• Day of week (0–6, where 0 = Sunday)

The following example would be run every 3rd hour, on the hour: 0 */3 * * *.

Available patterns

Symbol	Description	Example
*	any value	*
,	list of values	1,5,7
-	range of values	1-3
/	steps	*/2

Good to know

• A written description of the current cron expression appears as the title of the schedule.

• Use crontab guru to help you generate a valid expression and to find common examples.

Action params

A schedule does not provide input values to the Flow action's action params. Flow actions intended to run on a schedule should not require input. If the action needs inputs, trigger it from Run Flow or an API Endpoint instead, where values can be supplied at the call site.

Behavior

Overlapping runs are skipped. If a scheduled Flow action is still running when the next cron tick arrives, the next tick is silently skipped. There is no configurable concurrency mode.

Minimum interval between runs. The platform enforces a minimum interval between successful runs of a schedule. The default is 5 minutes. Cron expressions that schedule more frequent runs effectively run at the configured minimum.