Minutes Minutes Enter how often the trigger will run, in minutes. from com.autodesk.actions import Workflow import time # This first function is a little more accurate than the second. It works # by checking each minute if the current minute in the hour is an increment # of the given minutes value. If the workflow takes longer to run than the # given increment then increments are skipped. So for example, if minutes # is 5, then at the hour, five past, 10 past, etc. the workflow will run. # But if the workflow started at 5 past is still running at 10 past the # workflow won't run again until 15 past, assuming that the one started # at 5 past has finished it's work. # TODO: Rather than using sleep it would be better to use a signal. def first(workflow, minutes): while not workflow.stopRequested(): if time.localtime()[4] % minutes == 0: workflow.trigger() time.sleep(60) # This second function runs the workflow and then sleeps for the given # number of minutes. It's less accurate than the first method as the # duration between successive runs of the workflow will be the given number # of minutes plus the time it takes to run the workflow. # TODO: Again it would be better to use a signal. def second(workflow, minutes): naptime = 60*minutes while not workflow.stopRequested(): workflow.trigger() time.sleep(naptime) def main(workflow, minutes): if workflow == None or minutes == None: return if 60 % minutes == 0: first(workflow, minutes) else: second(workflow, minutes)