Examples of Flow Schedules

Define a Schedule to automatically submit the flow at a predefined date, frequency, and time that suits your business practices.

Here are some examples of scheduling options and how you can set the parameters while creating schedules for flows.

Scheduling Options	Parameters to Set	Examples
Submit the current flow only	Date Optionally, time	Schedule a process that transfers time card entries for a weekly payroll.
Submit the current flow and future occurrences	Frequency details or formula Start date and time	To optimize processing, schedule an archive process to start after normal working hours. However, the processing must end before the start of the nightly process to back up the enterprise's servers.
Restrict the period during which the flow recurs	End Date	Specify an end date for a scheduled statutory report that the government no longer requires you to submit.

Submit the Next Flow Occurrence

You use a delivered report to extract monthly payroll data that requires you to enter a process date parameter. You schedule the extract to run monthly. The application evaluates the flow parameters at the time of submission, and the task parameters at the beginning of task execution.

For example, if you schedule a Gross-to-Net report to run monthly for a monthly payroll, you must complete the following tasks.

• Use the Schedule option to define a schedule and specify the flow frequency as monthly. Select the schedule Start Date and End Date. These dates indicate the timeline of the schedule. No submissions will be effected beyond the schedule End Date.
• Go to the task's Basic Information page and define the process date parameter for the report as given here.

Parameter	Value
Basis	Context Binding
Basis Value	System Date

These settings ensure that the dates increment appropriately.