Scheduling in QAA

[Edy_Tan]

I have the following request from customer:

Schedule QAA to run on 1st day of the month

Schedule QAA to run every quarter  

Schedule QAA to run within a single day multiple timing

There is an example at https://community.qlik.com/t5/Official-Support-Articles/How-to-run-an-automation-once-a-month/ta-p/1... to run the automation daily and check if its the 1st day of the month then reload else exit.  But this will means that I have to run waste 29 automation runs just for 1 successful run. 

I also tried updating the schedule to beyond 30 days and it ended up removing my existing schedule.

Is there any workaround on this?

[J_Lindberg]

Hello @Edy_Tan 
Setting up an external script that acts as a scheduler that triggers automations to run when desired could be a way to avoid unwanted automation runs.

[Sander_Persgroep]

Hello @J_Lindberg , do you have an example script for this? Do you mean a scheduler outside of the Qlik Cloud environment?

[J_Lindberg]

Hello @Sander_Persgroep, I'm afraid not. This would be a scheduler hosted externally to trigger an automation using a webhook URL. The automation would have to be in Triggered run mode for this to work:
https://help.qlik.com/en-US/cloud-services/Subsystems/Hub/Content/Sense_QlikAutomation/working-with-...

Another approach could be to set up automations that reschedule themself. Here you will find an example of that: https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Application-Automation/scheduling-an-automation-at-specific-time/...

[parkera]

Hi Edy, we announced a fully integrated external management platform for Qlik called Harmony for Qlik and Symphony for Qlik. Harmony to manage the estate, and Symphony to manage scheduled tasks and they both are 100% built around Qlik 'Manage' APIs and work brilliantly. Very happy to share.

PS Both are ideal for Qlik OEMs to create a tenant hydrate with apps etc and populate users (using AD IDs, eg via MS Graph API, & groups)