Timer Trigger

Use the Timer Trigger as a process starter when creating flows designed to be activated without external input. It is useful when you want your flows to run at certain time intervals. You can configure the Timer Trigger to activate the flow multiple times at a specified interval.

Trigger Settings

Field Description

Handler Settings

Start Time

Time to start the flow execution.

Select the date and time from the calendar. By default, the current date and time are displayed. You can delete the configuration at any time.

Alternatively, you can configure the app property and use the Bind an Application Property toggle . When you configure an app property for the Start Time, you must use the RFC 3339 date and time format:

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+00:00 or YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZHH:MM

YYYY	Year
MM	Month
DD	Date
T	The date and time is separated by the character "T". It can also be replaced with a space.
HH	Hour (in 24-hour format)
MM	Minutes
SS	Seconds
+00:00 or "Z"	UTC time zone offset value in the format HH:MM, where HH is the hours and MM is the minutes (for example, +01:00 means 1 hour ahead of the UTC time zone). The UTC time zone (that is, +00:00) can also be represented with the letter "Z".
For example, 2021-04-12T23:20:50.52+00:00 2021-11-22T09:16:47Z08:00 1996-12-19T16:39:57-08:00 1990-12-31 23:59:60+05:00

Note: You can only configure current and future date and time. You cannot configure past dates.

Repeating

True: Select the True radio button to run the flow at periodic intervals.

False: Select the False radio button if you want the flow to run only once.

If Repeating is set to True and a Time Interval and Interval Unit is specified, the flow is triggered at the exact same time as the first run. For example, if the flow is run at 1:00 pm on Monday and the Interval Unit is specified as Week with the Time Interval as 2, the flow is run at 1:00 pm on every other Monday.

Time Interval An integer indicating the number of units specified in the Interval Unit field. For example, if you enter 1 as the Time Interval and select Hour in the Interval Unit drop-down menu, the Timer trigger activates the flow every hour. If you enter 2 as the time interval and specify Week as the Interval Unit, the flow is run every other week.

Interval Unit The unit of time to use with the Time Interval field to determine how often to run the flow. The units can be: Second, Minute, Hour, Day, and Week.

Map to Flow Inputs

This tab allows you to map the trigger output to flow input.