How to schedule in Power Automate Desktop WITHOUT Power Automate Cloud or Premium license)

Power Automate Desktop - Scheduler Hack - How to "Hack" PAD to Schedule workflows using Javascript.

Special thanks to Gozz Gozzilla for highlighting the bug in my code for Run Javascript 2 (within the loop). Please see below for the correct codes.

How to schedule in Power Automate Desktop WITHOUT Power Automate Cloud or Premium license)

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Run Javascript 1
var StartDateTime = new Date(%UserInput%).getTime();
var CurrentDateTime = new Date().getTime();
var Value_StartDateTime = new Number(StartDateTime);
var Value_CurrentDateTime = new Number (CurrentDateTime);
var WaitTime = (Value_StartDateTime - Value_CurrentDateTime)/1000;

Run Javascript 2 (within the loop)
var StartDateTime = new Date(%UserInput%).getTime();
var CurrentDateTime = new Date().getTime();
var Value_StartDateTime = new Number(StartDateTime);
var Value_CurrentDateTime = new Number (CurrentDateTime);
var WaitTime = ((Value_StartDateTime+%LoopIndex%*(24*60*60*1000)) - Value_CurrentDateTime)/1000;

[PowerAutomator]

There are two hacks available to schedule workflows without any license:-

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[GarethDoherty]

Came here from your reply on my comment on the Power Automate Desktop March 22 Update Blog. All looks good. Liked and subscribed.
I little feedback for you videos, try to have some sort of 1-2 minute "outro" segment because YouTube buts on screen there recommendations for the next video at the end and it obscures the view of what you were trying to show 👍

[ndacadet]

Thanks so much . Very helpful video .

[arwasko]

WaitTime is not a variable produced for the first javascript but the script is exactly what you have in the description. I see others with the same issue but no fix was documented in the comments

[kelvinmichael]

hi - this tool works perfectly and i sent you a cup of coffee :-)

[abenteuerland]

Thank you for the video. But I have a question; your format of DateTime doesn't run on my computer. Is it really 'Jan 5 17:50 2022'. If I use this format my Flow runs into a fault. Thank you for any answer

[senozk]

Good job, thanks! Loop and flow can run at background? Otherwise, pc should be kept running and switched on for whole period of the loop and flow?

[jaredyong]

This works perfectly fine for me! I tested it to run every minute by changing 24*60*60*1000 to 1*1*60*1000. it works even on lock screen.

but @powerAutomator just wondering if we could run 2nd flow with different loop timing? for eg. 1st one runs Daily, 2nd one runs Weekly. THANKS!

[ksunilksk]

Hello, this is great tip for scheduling. But once I schedule my flow to run daily, and turn off my laptop, still this works?

[alasdairnott]

This is working great, thanks!

Is it possible to run for 5 days, pause for 2 days and then run again for 5? So basically run on weekdays and pause on weekends?

[bsteve]

Any idea why I'm getting the following error message? "Parameter 'Text to convert': Variable 'WaitTime' doesn't exist". Perhaps the system datetime format differs on my PC?

[SerdarYazicioglu]

@PowerAutomator

Hello, thanks for the guide. I recreated it exactly as you described. Unfortunately, it does not jump to the loop after the waiting time has expired. What could be the problem? How can I solve it? I would appreciate your help.

[gozzgozzilla]

First Thanks for this VDO, it help me a lot. However I got problem after the first loop passed then the second loop always got error said " Timeout values can only be in the range 0 to 2147483 seconds" and the variable WaitTime show -282.826....Could you pls suggest ?

[RajisRavi]

Hi, can we schedule a flow for specific days not daily?

[asmuruanand]

Variable produced Wait time not show, how to get it, please advise.

[luisfmts]

Sorry but it seems it's not scheduled, it's delayed... you can also create a subflow using the "wait" snippets already built in the application, so no need for an external script for waiting time...

[renehasp]

How can we apply the same method to run every 1 hour?

[jamesbassey]

How can i make this script run every three minutes by the way ure a genius

[PowerAutomator]

Special thanks to @Gozz Gozzilla for pointing out a bug in my Javascript 2 (within the loop). Please see corrected code in description.

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[reanalytics]

Does this still work in 2023,

I tried running the code and got the following error

Can't convert text '' into a valid number (text provided is either in a non-recognizable format or contains too many characters).
Can't convert text '' into a valid number (text provided is either in a non-recognizable format or contains too many characters).
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can any one help?