Running an automation on a schedule

Every automation runs when you press Run now. A new one runs only then, until you give it a schedule under When it runs on its page. A schedule repeats at a time you choose, in a time zone you choose, and can stop itself on a date or after a number of runs.

Setting a schedule

Choose On a schedule, then pick how it repeats: every day, weekdays only, or every week, and on Pro also every few hours. For anything but every few hours, pick the time, and for every week, the day. Times are in the zone shown beside Times are in. The first time, your browser's zone is saved for you, and you can change it there.

If a daylight-saving change skips your time, that run happens just after the gap. Once you save, the page shows when the next run is, in that zone. PortMula's clock checks for due automations several times an hour, so a run can start some minutes after its time.

A schedule stops itself

Under Stop after you can give a number of runs, or a date beside it, but not both.

• An end date includes that whole day, in the automation's zone.
• A count goes up each time a scheduled run starts. A run refused before it started is not counted. Runs you start with Run now do not count, and saving a new count starts it again from zero.
• With neither, the schedule keeps going until you change it or pause the automation.

Pausing keeps the schedule saved, and a paused automation is not run until you resume it.

What your plan allows

Your plan sets how many of your automations can run on a schedule and the shortest gap between runs. Settings shows both in its plan table, and on Free the automation's page says it under When it runs. A save outside those limits is refused with the reason. Scheduled runs also count toward your plan's runs a day.

If you move to a plan that allows fewer schedules, your most recently used automation that isn't paused keeps its schedule, slowed to that plan's pace if needed. The others run when you press Run now.

Whether scheduled runs are on today

Scheduled runs can be switched off for the whole service. When they are, the schedule card on the automation's page says nothing fires on its own today, and Settings marks Schedule as not live yet. You can still save a schedule, and it starts once scheduled runs are on.

What a scheduled run may trade, and whether its trades wait for you, is set by its outcomes. See What is an outcome?