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Schedules run pipelines automatically using cron expressions. You define when a run should start, in which time zone legal and business cutoffs are evaluated, and how overlaps are handled when a previous run is still executing.

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Cron expressions

Planasonix accepts standard five-field cron strings (minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week) unless your deployment documents extended syntax. Examples: 
0 * * * *        # Every hour at minute 0
15 6 * * 1-5     # 06:15 on weekdays
0 */4 * * *      # Every 4 hours on the hour
30 14 1 * *      # 14:30 on the 1st of each month
Sub-hourly schedules suit streaming backfill or small incremental jobs. Watch warehouse spend and API quotas.
Use the schedule preview in the UI to confirm the next few firing times before saving.

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Timezone support

Attach a time zone (IANA name such as America/New_York) so daylight saving shifts match local business expectations. Without an explicit zone, schedules may interpret times in UTC and shift relative to local operators.
The week surrounding DST changes can produce duplicate or skipped local times. For critical financial jobs, prefer UTC schedules or validate firing times around the transition.

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Schedule management

1

Open the pipeline

Navigate to Orchestration → Schedules on the pipeline (or workspace schedules list, depending on UI layout).
2

Create a schedule

Enter cron, time zone, and concurrency policy (skip, queue, or allow parallel when supported).
3

Set notifications

Choose who receives failure notices via Notifications defaults or pipeline-specific routes.
4

Enable

Toggle the schedule active only after a successful test run on representative data volumes.

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Overlaps and catch-up

If a run exceeds the interval before the next firing, decide whether the platform should queue another run, coalesce into one, or skip to avoid backlog storms. Document the policy for on-call engineers.
Pair long-running batch jobs with duration alerts so you detect slowdown before the next cron slot collides.

Triggers

Event-based alternatives to fixed cron.

Pipeline chaining

Chain downstream work after scheduled loads.