On Schdule Workflow

When to Use: Choose an On-Schedule Workflow when you want your process to run automatically at a set time or repeat regularly. It’s ideal for daily, weekly, or monthly tasks that should happen on their own without anyone needing to start them.

• Run a workflow every morning to collect and email system or cost reports.
• Shut down inactive clusters automatically every night to save cloud costs.
• Send a weekly summary on Slack showing deployments and alerts.

Create On Schedule Type Workflow

• Navigate to the Workflow tab from the main menu.

• On clicking Workflow, a window will appear displaying a list of all existing workflows.
• To create a new workflow, click on the Create Workflow button.

• A form will appear containing the following fields:

Name : Enter a unique name for your workflow.
Description : Add a short explanation of what the workflow does.
Trigger Type : Select the workflow type “On Schedule” from the available options.
Retry : Define how many times a failed step should be retried.
Tags : Add relevant tags to help categorize and filter workflows.

• After selecting “Next” as the workflow type, a Schedule Configuration section appears.
  Here, you can define when and how your workflow should run by setting schedules based on intervals, specific days of the week, days of the month, or using a custom cron string for more advanced timing control.
  

• In this section, you can set your preferred time by defining the minutes, hours, days, and months for when the workflow should run automatically.

• Once you’ve set the schedule,fill the remaining required fields, click on the Next button to create your workflow.

• A window will appear with fields for adding Variables and their Values.
• You can add as many variables as needed by clicking Add More Variable.
• If you don’t want to add any variables, click Skip Variables to move ahead.
• If you’ve added variables, click Save and Continue to proceed.

• A confirmation popup will appear, indicating that your workflow has been successfully created.
• Once the workflow is created, you can view it in the workflow.

• To add an application to your workflow, click on the “+” button.

• A window will appear with two tabs : App and Plugins.