Creating quarterly issues using The Scheduler - help needed

[Kat Warner]

The Scheduler is a very helpful app I rely on to automatically create pre-populated issues in Jira for repeating tasks.

I have hit a wall trying to find a cron expression that will work to set up either a task that will run on:

• first Wednesday of every third month, or
• first day of every third month, or
• first day of a specific month annually

I have been using https://crontab.guru/every-quarter but this offers non-standard options that are not accepted in The Schedluer.

Any suggestions?

@TTPSC Atlassian 

[Łukasz Modzelewski _Lumo_ · Accepted solution]

Hi Kat,

You can try some other cron makers to generate some advanced cron expressions, like this one: http://www.cronmaker.com/

A. first Wednesday of every third month: 

0 0 12 ? 1/3 WED#1 *

Results in:

1.	Wednesday, April 1, 2020 12:00 PM
2.	Wednesday, July 1, 2020 12:00 PM
3.	Wednesday, October 7, 2020 12:00 PM
4.	Wednesday, January 6, 2021 12:00 PM
5.	Wednesday, April 7, 2021 12:00 PM

B. first day of every third month:

0 0 1 1 */3 ?

Results in:

1.	Wednesday, April 1, 2020 1:00 AM
2.	Wednesday, July 1, 2020 1:00 AM
3.	Thursday, October 1, 2020 1:00 AM
4.	Friday, January 1, 2021 1:00 AM
5.	Thursday, April 1, 2021 1:00 AM

C. first day of a specific month annually:

0 0 12 1 2 ? *

Results in:

1.	Saturday, February 1, 2020 12:00 PM
2.	Monday, February 1, 2021 12:00 PM
3.	Tuesday, February 1, 2022 12:00 PM
4.	Wednesday, February 1, 2023 12:00 PM
5.	Thursday, February 1, 2024 12:00 PM

Cheers,

Łukasz

[Kat Warner]

Thanks so much. I was able to achieve what I want with:

0 0 12 ? 3/3 WED#1 *