How can I tell the rule to run only once a month?

Antonia

The rule is now always executed when an asset is updated and in our case this happens every hour due to an importer. Can I tell the rule to start only once a month?

With the trigger, I can only select “Deleted”, ‘Created’ and “Updated”, but no real time.

Walter Buggenhout

Hi @Antonia,

You'll have to rethink the automation rule as a whole, in that case. I am not sure if the entire rule is in your screenshot, but if I understand you correctly, you're trying to create tasks  (to review?) active assets that meet certain criteria.

To do this once per month, you should:

• start with a scheduled trigger that runs once per month
• Use a Lookup Objects action to retrieve the list of objects that match your criteria
• Either create one tasks with a list of returned objects in the description field or loop through that list of objects and create a task for each individual object.

There is a caveat here though - the lookup objects action can only return up to 50 objects. If you don't expect the list of assets to become longer, this approach may be sufficient. But if you know there will be more assets matching your search, you'll need to use web requests to the assets API to make this work.

Hope this helps!