Schedules overview

EC allows you to view and manage scheduled tasks offline. Depending on the complexity of a task that you need to perform, there is a scheduling type and method to use.

While basic scheduling is used in a very defined manner, advanced scheduling method uses cron expressions format. Cron expressions format is a string of 6 to 7 fields separated by a white space. The fields in this string may contain alphanumeric and special characters. To build cron expressions, use the CronMaker tool. This tool uses an open source scheduler called Quartz. To generate Quartz cron expressions, you specify the start time, end time, and frequency of the schedule.

For cron expressions format, see http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-1.x/tutorials/crontrigger

For generating cron expressions, see http://www.cronmaker.com/