Scheduled jobs run on a cron-like schedule — every minute, every hour at :05, every Monday at 06:00, the first of each month. ActiveManage uses standard cron syntax so anyone familiar with Unix cron can read and write schedules.
Cron Syntax Refresher
Five fields, space-separated: minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week.
0 6 * * 1— every Monday at 06:00.*/5 * * * *— every 5 minutes.0 */4 * * *— every 4 hours on the hour.0 0 1 * *— at midnight on the first of each month.0 9 * * 1-5— at 09:00 every weekday.
Editor Features
- Friendly summary in plain English (“At 06:00 every Monday”).
- Next-run preview — shows when this schedule will next fire.
- Validation — refuses invalid syntax before save.
- Timezone — set per-job; defaults to platform timezone.
Worked Examples
- Nightly sync:
0 2 * * *— 02:00 daily, low-traffic window. - Weekly digest:
0 8 * * 1— Monday at 08:00, when users are at their desks. - End-of-month invoicing:
0 1 1 * *— 01:00 on the 1st of each month. - Heartbeat check:
*/5 * * * *— every 5 minutes; alert if any service is unreachable. - Quarter-end reports: Run a workflow at
0 0 1 1,4,7,10 *— 1st of Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct at midnight.
Tip: Set the timezone explicitly. A schedule of 0 9 * * * means 09:00 in which zone — server, UTC, customer-local? Pick once and document it.