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Enhanced scheduling of workspaces

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  • August 5, 2026
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lifalin2016
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Scheduling workspaces could be enhanced by allowing multiple time periods on a single schedule.

 

I often have to duplicate a schedule to facilitate multiple time periods, which is irritating.

 

Maybe just enhance the CRON function with possible multiple values ?

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s.jager
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  • August 6, 2026

I often have to duplicate a schedule to facilitate multiple time periods, which is irritating.

I’m not sure what you mean by multiple time periods. If you want a schedule to run multiple times per day for example, that’s easily done. Using the Cron option this would run every 4 hours: 0 */4 * * *, but Repeat on Interval also allows you to do that, as I’m sure you’re aware. So what is it you are trying to achieve?


redgeographics
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I often have to duplicate a schedule to facilitate multiple time periods, which is irritating.

I’m not sure what you mean by multiple time periods. If you want a schedule to run multiple times per day for example, that’s easily done. Using the Cron option this would run every 4 hours: 0 */4 * * *, but Repeat on Interval also allows you to do that, as I’m sure you’re aware. So what is it you are trying to achieve?

I’ve helped a customer scheduling their pay-as-you-go FME Flow Hosted instance, multiple different timeslots across multiple days, so that ended up being several different schedules. For example:

Mondays and Fridays: 9:00-10:00 and 16:00-17:00

Tuesdays: 12:00-13:00

Wednesdays: 12:00-14:00

Thursdays: 16:00-18:00


s.jager
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  • August 6, 2026

 For example:

Mondays and Fridays: 9:00-10:00 and 16:00-17:00

Tuesdays: 12:00-13:00

Wednesdays: 12:00-14:00

Thursdays: 16:00-18:00

Ah ok. Never seen or had the need for such complicated schedules myself, but yes, if you need something like that...