Flow Designer: Create a Trigger that Runs Every Hour on a Specific Day of the Week

[jmiskey]

Is it possible to create a trigger in Flow Designer that runs hourly (once an hour) between the hours of 6:00 AM and 12:00 PM, but ONLY on Mondays?  If so, how do we do that?

Thanks

[palanikumar · Accepted solution]

I dont think it is possible. You can configure the flow to run every hour. Within the flow, add condition to exit the flow if the current date time not matching the criteria

[jmiskey]

Thanks for replying.

Yeah, that was the only thing I could think of too, but was hoping there may be a better way. 

I am interested to see if anyone else has any other ideas.

[Roshnee Dash]

Hi @jmiskey 
The best way to implement an hourly trigger between 6:00 AM and 12:00 PM only on Mondays in ServiceNow  is to use a Scheduled Script Execution (Scheduled Job) in stead of Flow Designer, because Flow Designer’s native scheduling options are somewhat limited for complex recurrence patterns.

[jmiskey]

Thanks for the reply.  That is how we have typically done things like this in the past.  We were just looking at Flow Designer for a few reasons, such as:

- no code/low code options

- ability to integrate with Microsoft Teams for Alerts/Notifications

Just wanted to see if there was maybe an easier way of doing things using Flow Designer, but it appears that this may be one of those instances in which Flow Designer isn't robust enough to do what we want.

I was hoping I was missing some knowledge/trick of how this might be done easily in Flow Designer, but from the replies so far, it appears that there probably isn't.