Process to start at particular time daily

Camunda 7 Topics Discussion & Questions
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I. I have a process working with a start, service task and end task. I would like to run this process every day at a particular time ( suppose 11 pm ) . Can it be configured through property section?

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Hi,
You could consider a timer start event. See here for more detail…

regards

Rob

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Yes…followed that link.able to configure the process to run after a particular interval. But I have to configure such a way that the process can be executed in a particular time on daily basis.

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Hi @Br22

I think you need a Cycle Timer Definition

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Yes, using that I can set up an interval after when process can be started or a specific date and time.
Is there any way or any expression that can help to configure a start event that should run at 10 am EST DAILY base.

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@Br22 There are 3 different ways to define timers. Time Date, Time Duration and Time Cycle. It looks like the third one is exactly what you are looking for.

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@victorhugof right now I am using the Time Cycle as below which is getting triggered at every 2 minutes after the time of deployment.
<bpmn:startEvent id=“start” name=“start”>
bpmn:outgoingSequenceFlow_1fp17al</bpmn:outgoing>
<bpmn:timerEventDefinition id=“TimerEventDefinition_0ogtw6b”>
<bpmn:timeCycle xsi:type=“bpmn:tFormalExpression”>R/PT2M</bpmn:timeCycle>
</bpmn:timerEventDefinition>
</bpmn:startEvent>
but the requirements to set a specific time like 10 am EST DAILY. any idea how to configure that property.

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Hey @Br22. You’ll need a Cron Trigger.

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When you see here:
Timer Start Event
you can use something like this:
R/2021-12-14T10:00/PT24H

One think: When I tried it, my server was in UTC time.

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