Run automation workflow on specific date?

@Matt H and @zachary.king Our product team is working on time based automations within workflow automators. Your use cases should be possible once this is rolled out. Posting a few mocks shared by our Product Manager @vishal.abraham 

Timer Node: Adds a time delay between 2 workflow nodes. Time delays can be based on both calendar and business hours.

Scheduled Workflows: Workflows that run on a schedule and process records based on the conditions specified.
 

Thanks.

@Matt H, this is a great question. I would also like to know if this is possible. I have not been able to figure out a straightforward way to make this happen. Couldn’t access any date/time fields in workflow automator’s conditional blocks for requested service items. I bet I could get it done with some third party integrations like Microsoft Power Automate but that is a lot of leg work. 

Let’s ask the experts! @sanofar.allahpichai

@Matt H and @zachary.king Our product team is working on time based automations within workflow automators. Your use cases should be possible once this is rolled out. Posting a few mocks shared by our Product Manager @vishal.abraham 

Timer Node: Adds a time delay between 2 workflow nodes. Time delays can be based on both calendar and business hours.

Scheduled Workflows: Workflows that run on a schedule and process records based on the conditions specified.
 

Thanks.

@rajagopal.baladhandayutham This is a huge feature.  Thanks for sharing this.  I have a lot of work arounds and hacks to handle this with 3rd party tools.  This will save a lot of time.

@rajagopal.baladhandayutham This is exactly what we are looking for, excited to see this feature. Hopefully real soon. Going to be a great addition to Employee Onboarding as well!!!

Thanks for the heads up

@Matt H This should be available when the feature is rolled out. Our team is targeting a release for this in the next 3 months time, however things might get changed due to any unforeseen issues during final stages of testing. We’ll keep the post updated as and when we get any updates on this.

Thanks

Adam, if you are not afraid of a little API you can do both of these things today. 

Hi there - I see that we have timers available to us in the workflow automation, but I was hoping to be able to call a predefined time/date from a Service Request into the Automator, such that X action happens on Y date/time - is this still on the roadmap? 

Hello there @rajagopal.baladhandayutham,

This is great to see that time based automations will be coming soon! Please can I ask if in the future it will be possible to change the due date and Task due date via time based automations?

For example, if a service request has a date field, then can you use this field’s data to change the due date for the ticket.

Or if a task is created via Automator, the date field data can be used as the “due by” 

As a bonus, would be great if you can do a bit of maths to the due dates, ie: {{ticket.service_request_item_names}}{{ticket.ri_45_cf_time_to_be_actioned}} + 8 hours or something like that

Many thanks

Adam

Anyone able to integrate power-automate workflow? If so, can I get some instructions to it please. 

Same for us, we have a number of PowerShell scripts and hacky workarounds. This feature will allow us to move more of that into the native tooling making it easier to maintain!

Hi,

It will be possible on July 28th.

2 days to wait to implement lot more things in our workflows easier

Y’all — please upvote this post: 

The timer app is really great, but requires a static, hard-coded duration. It would be extremely helpful for the timer to accept dynamic values (say a result from expression like, today() - termDate).

Yeah, I check and I want the same, but it’s not possible which is really sad. Calling a date from a form will be insane for employee onboarding or when its time to disable an AD-ACCOUNT without running schedule task on the AD-server as example.

Let’s see what Freshservice will reply to us?

Any status update on this feature?

Would love to know when this will be available as keen to create timer based closures on tickets.

Will it be available recently?

Some solution to start on the date heated in the field by the user and run at the end.we need to block and unblock in AD.

Some solution to start on the date heated in the field by the user and run at the end.we need to block and unblock in AD.

https://support.freshservice.com/en/support/solutions/articles/50000004790-introduction-to-scheduled-workflows 

Any status update on this feature?

@Matt H and @zachary.king Our product team is working on time based automations within workflow automators. Your use cases should be possible once this is rolled out. Posting a few mocks shared by our Product Manager @vishal.abraham 

Timer Node: Adds a time delay between 2 workflow nodes. Time delays can be based on both calendar and business hours.

Scheduled Workflows: Workflows that run on a schedule and process records based on the conditions specified.
 

Thanks.

So are you saying I’m supposed to be able to do this now or when is it expected to be rolled out?

Just circling up on any updates for this - thank you!

You can do  this using an expression if this helps.
 

Then filter that output:

 

So it will still run every day, it’s just only going to move forward if the difference in days is correct for whatever you set.

Running automation workflows on specific dates is a common practice in various industries and processes to ensure timely execution of tasks. Automation platforms and tools allow users to schedule workflows to run on predetermined dates, enabling efficient and hands-free task execution.

I am looking for an answer here as well. Need to be able to add a user to a group on a service request date field and then remove that user on another date field in the service request.