Configure Scheduling

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You can create scheduled executions of your flows. When the schedule is triggered, all datasets that have scheduled output destinations are generated. Results are written to the specified output locations.

Limitations

You can create one schedule per flow.

Pre-requisites

You must install the two scheduling databases. See Install the Databases.

Enable

By default, scheduling is enabled. Use the following steps to enable or disable.

Steps:

To enable, please specify the following parameters.

You can apply this change through the Admin Settings Page (recommended) or trifacta-conf.json. For more information, see Platform Configuration Methods.

"feature.scheduling.enabled": true,
"feature.scheduling.protobufDefinitionsFolder": "%(topOfTree)s/services/scheduling-service/protobuf/build/install/scheduling-service/api",
"feature.scheduling.baseUrl": "http://localhost:43143",

Parameter	Description
"feature.scheduling.enabled"	Set this value to `true` to enable scheduling.
"feature.scheduling.protobufDefinitionsFolder"	Defines the location on the Alteryx node where the protobuf definitions are stored. NOTE: Do not modify this value.
"feature.scheduling.baseUrl"	Specify the base URL for the scheduling service. You must specify the full URL: http://<base_platform_host>:<scheduling_port> `<base_platform_host>` is the host of the Alteryx node. Default value is `localhost` . `<scheduling_port>` is the listening port for the scheduling service. Default value is `43143`. NOTE: The value for `<scheduling_port>` must match the value that you specify for the Scheduling service port. For more information, see System Ports.

Configure

Database configuration

You can make changes to the database configuration as needed.