How to Schedule Workflow to run on intervals - Emmanuel Katto Uganda

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Hi everyone, My name is Emmanuel Katto. I wanted to know how can I schedule workflows to run at specific times or intervals in n8n? Any advice on using the Cron node effectively?

Looking forward to your suggestions.

Thanks in advance!

Best,
Emmanuel Katto

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Hey Emmanuel, welcome to the n8n community!

Once you switch the schedule trigger to cron mode, a helpful link will show:

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It’ll take you to this page that shows many useful examples of different cron patterns. If you click on one of them, you can experiment in the editor and adjust to your needs.

Hope that helps!

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There is a wait node if that helps