Cron Trigger Input Error

[Jennifer Kanngard]

HI I am trying to set trigger details for a scheduling task by using the advanced functionality and cron trigger input.

I ideally want a task to be performed for the first 10 business days of any month and for the trigger to be at 6am every morning.

I have tried the following but keep getting error messages:

0 0 6 1-17 * 2-6 0 0 6 1-17 * MON-FRI

Please can you help? How can I enter intervals within a month in the scheduling tool?

[Łukasz Modzelewski]

Hi Jennifer,

Unfortunately you can not combine days of the month with days of the week, it's not supported by Cron Triggers. You can read about it in similar use cases:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34357126/why-crontab-uses-or-when-both-day-of-month-and-day-of-week-specified and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4455970/is-this-cronexpression-correct/4834940#4834940

But you could achieve same result using 10 triggers (instead of 1) - your scheduled issue should be running on the 1st of that day of the month, and 2nd of that day of the month, Monday - Friday

0 0 6 ? * 2#1 - first Monday of the month

0 0 6 ? * 2#2 - second Monday of the month

...

0 0 6 ? * 6#1 - first Friday of the month

0 0 6 ? * 6#2 - second Friday of the month

If you would like to test your Cron Expressions you can do it here: http://www.cronmaker.com/

If it solves your issue please close this ticket.

Best regards, Łukasz