How does the Schedule Trigger work?
A scheduled workflow is a flow that starts according to a configured time rule instead of an incoming request. AI Flowi Workflow offers five schedule types: interval, daily, weekly, monthly, and cron, interpreted with the selected timezone. Schedule Trigger provides Schedule Data as a JSON output. See the commercial integrations overview.
By Ai Flowi · Technical review: Janice Lee, Technical Support, Ai Flowi.
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Schedule settings
| Setting | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Schedule Type | Choose Interval, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Cron. |
| Timezone | The IANA timezone used to interpret the rule. |
| Enabled | Turns automatic scheduled execution for the flow on or off. |
| Interval | Set an interval value in minutes, hours, or days. |
| Daily and weekly | Set execution times; weekly schedules also select days of the week. |
| Monthly | Choose calendar days or a weekday occurrence rule. A selected calendar day that does not exist in a month is skipped for that month. |
| Cron | Add a standard five field cron expression evaluated in the selected timezone. |
The component exposes Schedule Data as a JSON output. Connect it to a component that accepts JSON if the scheduled flow needs that data. For a first example of typed connections and testing a flow, follow the first workflow tutorial.
Check the timezone and rule together when a run happens at an unexpected time. For monthly calendar days, account for months that do not contain the selected date. A structurally compatible connection does not confirm that the rest of the flow is configured correctly; inspect its downstream components and credentials if execution fails. For coordinating the downstream stages, review workflow orchestration while investigating a scheduled flow’s execution failure.
What does daily workflow mean?
For Schedule Trigger, a daily workflow uses the Daily schedule type to start at configured execution times, interpreted in the selected timezone. Choose Daily, set the execution times, and turn Enabled on for automatic scheduled execution. If a run happens at an unexpected time, check the timezone and time rule together.