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Triggers

Scheduled Trigger

The Scheduled Trigger runs your workflow on a set schedule: daily, weekly, or monthly. Use it for periodic reports, batch processing, and any task that should run at regular intervals.

When to Use It

  • Generate weekly summary reports of social listening activity

  • Run batch processing on accumulated data at regular intervals

  • Send periodic digests to your team via email or Slack

  • Trigger monthly analytics workflows

How to Set It Up

  1. Create a new workflow and select Scheduled Trigger as your trigger node

  2. Choose a cadence: Daily, Weekly, or Monthly

  3. Set the time you want the trigger to fire

  4. For weekly schedules, select the day of the week

  5. For monthly schedules, select the day of the month

  6. Save the trigger

Warning: Scheduled triggers use your account's timezone. Make sure your timezone is set correctly in Settings before configuring schedules.

Output Variables

Variable

Description

triggeredAt

The exact date and time the trigger fired

cadence

The schedule frequency: DAILY, WEEKLY, or MONTHLY

scheduledTime

The configured time the trigger was set to run

Variable Syntax

Reference these variables in downstream nodes:

{{ !ref($.trigger.outputs.triggeredAt) }}{{ !ref($.trigger.outputs.cadence) }}{{ !ref($.trigger.outputs.scheduledTime) }}

Example Workflow

This workflow sends a weekly summary of top-performing posts to your team:

  1. Scheduled Trigger set to run every Monday at 9:00 AM

  2. API Request node to pull the top posts from the past week

  3. AI Summarize node to create a concise digest

  4. Email node to send the digest to your team

This keeps your team informed without anyone needing to check dashboards manually.

Pro tip: Use the triggeredAt variable to calculate date ranges in downstream nodes. For example, a weekly trigger can use triggeredAt to fetch data from the last 7 days automatically.

Weekly support insights update (2026-05-25)

Changing a schedule from daily to weekly

After changing a workflow schedule, verify the next run time and cadence in the trigger settings. For weekly schedules, also select the day of week. If the label says weekly but results still arrive daily, contact support with the workflow URL because the old schedule may not have updated correctly.

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