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Schedule a service

Schedule a service to request it automatically at set times. You configure a schedule on the New Service Request page, after you complete the service form. Creating a schedule doesn’t request the service immediately. It creates a durable schedule that continues to exist even if your access to the service is removed or your account is deleted.

Create a schedule

1

Open the service

In Browse Services, select Request on the service that you want to schedule.

2

Complete the form

On the Service Request Form tab, complete the required fields. Service Requests applies these values to every request that the schedule submits.

3

Select a recurring schedule

Under When do you want to request this service?, select On a recurring schedule. The recurrence fields appear.

4

Configure the recurrence

Under Repeats, select Daily or Expression, and then configure Starts and Ends. For more information, see Configure the recurrence. The submit button stays disabled until you complete all required fields.

5

Create the schedule

Select Create schedule. Service Requests opens Scheduled Requests and shows your new schedule.

To request a service once in the future, create a recurring schedule with an end condition.

Configure the recurrence

Repeats

Select how the schedule repeats.

Daily

Request the service at a set time on the days that you choose.

  1. In the Every field, enter the number of weeks between requests. For example, enter 1 to request the service every week.
  2. Select the days of the week. To select several days at once, select All, Weekdays, or Weekend. To clear your selection, select Clear.
  3. In the Time (UTC) field, enter the time of day that Service Requests submits the request.

Below the time field, Service Requests shows the equivalent local time and a plain-language summary of the schedule, such as “Every day at 00:00 UTC”.

Expression

Request the service on a cron expression.

  1. In the Cron expression field, enter a six-field cron expression. The fields are second, minute, hour, day of month, month, and day of week. For example, 0 0 15 * * * requests the service every day at 15:00 UTC.
  2. Check the plain-language summary below the field to confirm that the expression does what you intend.

Starts

Select when the schedule begins:

  • At the next occurrence: The schedule starts at the next time that matches the recurrence.
  • On: The schedule starts on the date that you enter.

The First run line shows when the first run happens.

Ends

Select when the schedule stops:

  • Never: The schedule continues until you pause or delete it.
  • On: The schedule stops on the date that you enter. The schedule submits a request on that date if the recurrence matches it.
  • After: The schedule stops after the number of occurrences, up to 1,000, that you enter.

The schedule end date and number of occurrences are mutually exclusive. You can set one or the other.

Enter times in UTC

You enter and Service Requests stores all schedule times in UTC. A schedule has no time zone setting. UTC doesn’t change with daylight saving time, so a request that you pin to a local time shifts by an hour when local clocks change.

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