How To Schedule OIC Integrations Using ICal Expression?

PROBLEM:?iCal expression in OIC

About iCal Expression: –?For scheduling an OIC integration iCal expression is required, iCal is an advance type to schedule the frequency of any integration.

Example:?FREQ=MONTHLY;BYMONTHDAY=6,12,18;BYHOUR=12,14,16,18;BYMINUTE=20;

Above example indicates that the integration will run every month on 6th,12thand 18th?days of the month at time 12:20PM,02:20PM,04:20PM and 06:20PM

There are two types through which we can schedule any OIC integration.

1. Basic schedule: for basic Scheduling there is a minimum frequency limit of 10 mins, below which we cannot create any schedule, therefore use of iCal expression is required.
2. Scheduling through iCal Expression: we can schedule any integration by the frequency less than 10 mins also.

Prerequisites:

OIC instance access with User having?Service Developer?role,?Service Monitor,?Service invoker?role.

Solution:

STEP1: Activate a Scheduled OIC integration.

STEP:2?Select?‘Schedule’?from the dropdown and select the pencil icon to edit the schedule as shown below.

STEP:3?click on iCal button and write the expressions in the builder.

Using below expression, Integration will run monthly on days 13th?and 14th?at time 10:10AM,12:10PM,02:10PM,04:10PM.

You can select time interval for the schedule to repeat until when and can set for the particular period from calendar as shown below.

STEP:4 VALIDATE?the expression ,save and start the schedule.

Integration is successfully scheduled as per frequency.

Similarly we can schedule integrations?daily, by hour, by minute, by secs.

Example: FREQ=DAILY;BYHOUR=4,6,8,10,12,14;BYMINUTE=0,20,40,50;BYSECOND=30;