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<p>One of the nice things about bip.io&rsquo;s ability to automate the web for you is that things can appear to happen for you <em>without you having to do anything</em>. But sometimes you want to have more control over <strong>when</strong> those events occur.</p>
<p>So we&rsquo;ve added the ability to schedule bips to trigger on whatever schedule you want.</p>
<p>Say you want one of your personal bips to trigger every weekday at 5pm, and you want some of your business-oriented bips to only trigger on the third Friday of every month. <br /> Well, you can now set a tailored, specific calendar for when each and every bip you own should run. As you can see here in this example, which will run every 3rd Friday of the month at 4:30pm, starting on April 1st. (You can even tell it to run in someone's else's timezone!) <br /><img src="http://idfiles.leveelabs.com/55bd0288af0b0930ba599bd0c4b7ca38/resources/img_new/blog_bip_io/Screen-Shot-2015-03-30-at-6-31-45-PM.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Remember that this scheduling feature is on a <strong><em>per-bip</em></strong> basis. <br /> If however, you want to change the interval of how often <strong>all</strong> of your triggered bips are fired, you can define your triggers schedule by adjusting the crons settings in your config/*.json, like this example to run every 15 min:</p>
<pre><code>"crons": {
"trigger": "0 */15 * * * *",
...
},
</code></pre>
<p>let us know if you find this feature useful and be sure to share with the community the awesome bips you're scheduling!</p>
<p>and as always, you can stay up to date with what&rsquo;s going on with bip.io by <a href="http://www.twitter.com/bipioapp">following us on twitter</a></p>