Run Azure Function 2 days before end of month - azure

Is it possible to use a Timer trigger to run an Azure function 2 days before end of month?
I tried 0 0 0 L-2 * *, but it is not allowed.
Invalid Cron Expression.
When I use https://crontab.cronhub.io/ with my cron expression, I get my expected result At 12:00 AM, 2 days before the last day of the month.

Unfortunately, as per your requirement as there is no CORN expression that can help in your case.
You need to create a custom solution by creating a timer trigger function that would be running every day. You need to write your custom logic to validate whether current date is equal to last or second last day of the month. If it is true then inside the condition you can write your business logic for further processing.
Refer to similar case (where customer want to avoid the execution of workflow on first and last day of the month) to implement your custom logic.

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Can I trigger my Azure data factory pipeline in 5 working day between 9 am to 6 pm hourly

I have a Azure data factory pipeline that load data of every working day(Run every working day). I want to trigger my pipeline every working day (Mon-Fry) between working hour(9am to 6pm) and hourly.
It should run as daily at 9am then 10am then 11am--------at 6pm.
I have tried tumbling window trigger but I think it does not support time period for trigger interval
In your trigger, you can select a recurrence of one week, then select the working days and then the hours you are interested in.
The recurrence patterns in ADF and Logic Apps don't directly support this combination of requirements. You are certainly welcome to attempt this in an ADF pipeline, but I find Logic Apps to be much easier for this sort of action. Below is an example of how you might configure it:
Create a Logic App with a Recurrence Trigger
In the Trigger, change the Frequency to Day and specify the hours and timezone:
Calculate the day of the week
Us the following expression (change to the appropriate timezone) to extract the day of the week into a variable:
dayOfWeek(convertFromUtc(utcNow(), 'Eastern Standard Time'))
This will return an integer where 0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday, etc.
Add condition based on the day of the week
Use the dayOfWeek integer variable to determine which days to act (or ignore). In this example, I'm exceluding days 0 (Sunday) and 6 (Saturday):
Execute the data factory
In the True condition, execute your data factory (do nothing in the False condition):

How to create cron job to close period each month

I have a project where I have to update a field in my database every 1st day of each month and update it again every 10th after.
This cron allow me to open a session and to close it. I would like to know how can I set up the 10th of the month.
1st day of each month I have : 0 0 1 * *
10th after it : ??
Thanks :)
You can create a Cron expression that passes two dates in the day variable. Something like this would work:
0 0 0 1,10 * ? *
Expression description:
At 00:00:00am, on the 1st and 10th day, every month
You can use the comma in order to pass multiple variables in the day parameter in order to set multiple days to run.
A great resource for playing around with Cron statements is the Cron formatter website, which will let you enter statements, then give you the plain English logic that the statement will follow. It also shows which sections of the statement resolve to minutes, hours, days, ect.. It is really helpful for creating new statements in my opinion.

Generate cron expression for weekly and repeat every n weeks

I am trying to create weekly cron expression which will execute every week on selected days like Mon,Tue. Along with this I have to implement repeat every functionality with it. So that trigger would be fired after repeat every interval.
eg. I have to execute job every Monday and alternate week in case when interval value is 2.
When interval value is 3 I have to execute this job every Monday after 2 weeks.
This functionality is easily achieved in case of Daily or monthly, but I am not able to find it in case of weekly.
eg. Cron for daily and repeat every interval as 3
0 0 12 1/3 * ? *
You cannot do that with cron expressions.
Your best bet is to use the WithCalendarIntervalSchedule() method to specify the intervals in weeks you want the trigger to happen:
ITrigger trigger = TriggerBuilder.Create()
.WithIdentity("trigger1", "group1")
.StartNow()
.WithCalendarIntervalSchedule(
scheduleBuilder => scheduleBuilder.WithIntervalInWeeks(3))
.Build();
Instead of StartNow(), you will also have to use StartAt(), and find a way to get the date of the next Monday (using for example Jon Skeet answer from this question: Datetime - Get next tuesday)
http://www.cronmaker.com/
This (or any similar) page can help you, for example, if you set it to every 14 days.

cron expression every 2 days not making sense for monday

i have a cron expression-
0 0 12 */2 * ?
If start date is monday and time is 11:40 am, the next trigger date i'm expecting is monday 12:00, followed by wednesday, friday,etc.
But when i give this expression, the first trigger is set to tuesday 12:00, followed by thursday, saturday,etc
i verified this on http://cronmaker.com
Why does this behavior occur for monday?
If the start date is set to any other day it seems to behave the way its supposed to.
So if it was set on Tuesday 11:50 am , the first trigger is on tuesday 12:00.
Please help me understand. Is it a bug or expected behavior? Is there a work around to make it trigger on monday?
Thanks
Your cron schedule doesn't care about the day of the week. It is running simply on every uneven day of the month. This is the expected behaviour.
If you need it to run on Mondays, you should use something like 0 0 12 ? * MON,WED,FRI
First of all you expression only uses ? for the day of the week, so effectively you are not controlling that part.
Second the / character in a Cron expression indicates an increment. And when used next to a *, the star just means the lower bound for that value, 1 for the day of the month.
So indeed you are asking for a fire at noon every uneven day of the month. And the start time of the trigger will only constrain the first instance to be the next uneven day of the month.
You cannot express what you seem to desire with a cron trigger - that is a schedule which is based off the start time of the trigger. You should use s SimpleTrigger for this

cron expression for quartz to start on particular month and repeat every months onwards

I am working on Quartz Scheduler where need to trigger my job on basis of monthly where user can select desired month date from which he want to make it run for every month on that particular date. lets say- I want to schedule quartz job from August 20,2015 which should run every month on 20th, but it should not start by today,must be start on August 20,2015 onward. what would be the cron expression for this?
I have tried a lot to find out the matching thread but did not worked for me.
like if i have to make for every month which start on 20 May 2015 and repeat every 20th date of month the cron expression would be [0 0 12 20 1/1 ? *].for this requirement lot of things available around and works nicely. but how to schedule Quartz which must fire on particular date and repeat onward for every month on that particular date and time?
Please help me out.any link or any guideline would be appreciable.

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