How to schedule automations on a particular time and date

If you remember, we have built a “Post Tracker” automation as an exercise:

The client loved it and asked us if it can be scheduled to run at 02:00 pm every day.

I said: “Oh yeah!”

And here is how easy to achieve it.

How to schedule an automation at a particular time (every day)

Do you see the “Run once” button at the bottom left-hand corner of the screen?

“Yep! Clicked on it many times”.

Haha, okay.

And right next to it, there is a toggle button that says, “Every 15 minutes”:

Clicking on it will open up the “Scheduling setting” panel:

If you notice, there are two options inside the panel:

1. Run scenario — currently set to “At regular intervals”
2. Minutes — currently set to 15

This simply means, our automation is currently configured to run at every 15 minutes.

But the client requested to run the automation at 02:00 pm every day, right?

So, click on the “Run scenario” option and set it to “Every day”:

If you notice, you can also run the automation on:

1. On specific “Days of the week”
2. On specific “Days of the month”
3. On “Specific dates”

These options are pretty easy to configure.

Anyway, for our current case, as soon as we select “Every day” for the “Run scenario” option, the Panels replaces the “Minutes” option with the “Time” option:

And when you click on the “Time” option, you can select at which hour and minute you want to run the automation every day.

I selected 02:00 pm:

Next, to enable scheduling, click on the “Save” button.

As soon as you do it, the automation will get activated and will run every day at 02:00 pm:

Finally, click on the save the entire scenario by clicking on the “Floppy Disk” icon.

That's all you need to do to schedule an automation at a particular time and date.

Note: A scheduled automation is always on. You can turn it off if you want to disable scheduling and run it manually.

Now, I want you to take time and play around other scheduling options.

In the next lesson, we will discuss an issue that we might run into when we are scheduling automations.