Are cron-jobs possible?

[andreas.schneider198]

Hello,

I just started with bubbling and I already love it. I think it is so hard to get visual programming right, but you guys are going to make it to the next big thing. Congrats!!

I was wondering if it is possible to do a time-based job, lets say every Sunday 10am. This job should change some values in the database and it should do some calculations in the database. It should work without the need of an admin clicking a button or so.

Best regards

[emmanuel]

We support scheduling workflows, but not on a recurring basis, as it’s quite risky (could take servers down if people do something stupid). However some users have experimented with some options:

Solution: making API workflows to run on a schedule

we at Bubblewits, when working on a project for a client to synchronize their Harvest time tracking data with Bubble database through Harvest API, have come up with a solution to run an API workflow on a scheduled basis (for example every 1,5,15 minutes etc.) in the background, even when the app is not running. We found out that AWS’s Lambda service allows to host any code in python or node.js and then trigger it on schedule using Cloudwatch. so we have simply created a Lambda python function …

Regularly scheduled API calls

The idea is to be able to set up a regularly scheduled event. The way I would think to do that would be to schedule an API call that will then schedule itself for a later date (and so on). Then you just enter a condition on the workflow that will be used to interrupt it in the future (like cancelled = yes). However, it looks like it’s not currently possible to schedule an API workflow that will then schedule itself (or even a different API workflow) for a different date. I assume you guys d…

[andreas.schneider198]

Thank you!! I really like the AWS Lambda approach.

[JustinC]

This is along the lines of what I require as well.

I’m trying to schedule a Thing to change status after the Things Expiry Date.

How can I set something like this up so that it is entirely automatic depending on the current date?