I was told to use crontab expression to make my schedule trigger run every 3 minutes, however, I notice that it's not actually running every 5 minutes, what its doing is it runs a process for a period of 3 minutes and then it stops even if the process is not complete.
I need the trigger to run every 3 minutes but if its in the middle of a process then to complete the current process. Can you advise, please?
I noticed in the schedule trigger you have “start instance” and “stop instance”, currently they are both false. My guess is I need to do something with these?
The triggers never interrupt the script execution.
The special variable timeout is what will solve your problem. According to the manual the timeout special variable:
Defines the maximal robot process duration time (in milliseconds), after which the process terminates; the default value is 180000 (3 minutes).
Which means that a script will stop after 3 minutes if its timeout's variable value stays default.
Add the below line of code at the beginning of your script to prevent this from happening after 3 minutes and increase its maximal robot process duration time.
♥timeout = 1800000
By the way if you have set up your triggers to launch a script every 3 minutes and the script's duration time is for example 4 minutes, the script will be launched the next time automatically after because it is 1 minute late and it creates a queue of scripts to be executed.