Once A Day

The once-a-day recurrence type is used when you have a job that needs to run only one time per day, either every day or every few days. Thus, you will notice that the number of additional settings that are available under this option are much simpler. Skip Missed Execution Times is the first option as it is with all the scheduler-based triggers. This option works the same way for all types of recursion and therefore behaves in the same fashion as described in the previous section.

The Start Date and Start Time fields specify the starting date and time as would be expected. Then the next field is the repeating interval option which appears as the Every X Days option. With this set as the default value of 1, the trigger will fire every day at the specified time. When you set this option to a different value, then you want to keep aware of the fact that the starting date and time serves as the anchoring point for when the next run will be triggered.

Finally, the Ending option also is present here as was described in the previous section. This also is true of all the various recursion types. An example of the once-a-day recurrence type might have us set the Start Time to 07:00 with all the other defaults. This would give us a job that run at 07:00 exactly, every single day.

For another variation, change Start Date to 2021-03-01 and the field Every 1 Days, to a value of Every 3 Days. Now this job will execute at 07:00 on each of the days it should run. But note that with this specified date, the anchoring of the starting date and time means this job will run 2 times on the first week (Monday March 1, and Thursday March 4). Then we will see the job run 3 times the second week (Sunday March 7, Wednesday March 10, and Saturday March 13). And on the third week we see the job run 2 times for this week (Tuesday March 16 and Friday March 19). Then on the fourth week, we see the job will again start on a Monday, March 22. So, in this scenario, the days of the week that the job runs on is based on the anchoring of the Start Date and the number of days it is repeating on.