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Hi,

I would like to create a cron trigger to fires everyday at 8am, starting from 1 September 2014 to 28 Feb 2015. I've looked through the tutorial site and I am still not too sure. Is there a way to do this?

Many thanks.

Hi,

you can create a Trigger with a cron expression and set the start date and end date on the trigger.

e.g:

Calendar startDate = Calendar.getInstance() , endDate = Calendar.getInstance() ;

startDate.set(Calendar.MONDAY,Calendar.SEPTEMBER);
startDate.set(Calendar.YEAR, 2014);
startDate.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,1);

endDate.set(Calendar.MONDAY,Calendar.FEBRUARY);
endDate.set(Calendar.YEAR, 2015);
endDate.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,28);

CronExpression cronExpression = new CronExpression("0 0 8 1/1 * ? *"); // Cron Expression to run daily at 8 AM

Trigger trigger = TriggerBuilder
.newTrigger()
.withIdentity("Trigger", "Group").startAt(runDate)
.withSchedule(
CronScheduleBuilder.cronSchedule(cronExpression)).startAt(startDate.getTime()).endAt(endDate.getTime())
.build();

Hope this answers your query.

Headshot! Thanks so much!