Cron turns Enfocus Switch into a true task scheduler. Instead of waiting for an incoming job, Cron fires on its own: it injects a trigger job into your flow at the moment you define, so you can automate time-based workflows without any external tooling.
Flexible scheduling modes Choose from five intuitive modes — Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly — each with configurable hour and minute fields so you can target any time of day. For advanced use cases, switch to Cron style and enter a standard 5-field cron expression with full support for wildcards, ranges, steps, start/step notation, and comma-separated combinations (e.g. 0 9 * * 1-5, */15 8-18 * * *, 30 6,18 1-7/2 * *).
Timezone-aware Evaluate your schedule against the Switch server's local time or UTC — useful for flows that run across time zones or need to align with UTC-based systems.
Choose what gets injected Use a lightweight dummy trigger file (ideal for flows that only need a time signal) or point Cron to a specific file or folder on disk that gets re-injected on every tick.
Built-in validation The hour, minute, and cron expression fields are all validated in the Switch properties panel before the flow runs, catching mistakes early.
Typical use cases
