Scheduled Start Plan Tasks

pbottleRPA Built-in Scheduled Task Rules

Plan task setting rules:

1. Hour field and minute field are separated by a space.
2. Multiple values are separated by commas.
3. Hour range: 0-23, minute range: 0-59.
4. Supports - for ranges, supports * for any.

Examples:

* *           // Every minute
0-9  0        // Every hour from 0:00 to 9:00, runs at minute 0 of each hour
3,6,9  10,40  // Runs at 3:00, 6:00, 9:00, twice each hour at 10 and 40 minutes

Windows Advanced Multi-Task Scheduler

💡 Pay attention: this API feature relies on the Enterprise edition.

Operating system native timer, stable and efficient, with advanced features like sleep/wake.

• Windows: Task Scheduler

1. Open the built-in Windows Task Scheduler and set the trigger time.

2. Set pbottleRPA to start the flow.

Linux Multi-Task Scheduler

💡 Pay attention: this API feature relies on the Enterprise edition.

Linux crontab is the command in Linux systems for setting periodically executed instructions.

This task scheduling command starts by default when the operating system is installed.

The crond command checks periodically (every minute) if there is work to be executed, and if so, automatically executes it.