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# Define Schedule
Step 3 of setting up a custom alarm is configuring a schedule for when the alarm should be triggered.
Define Schedule
We can define a fixed schedule for the alerts to be sent to the user.
1\. Select the date & time when to initiate the alarm
2\. After selecting the initiation date & time, select the execution of an alarm event - **Once**, or **Repeated.**
To send out the data exports at regular intervals, select **Repeated**. On selecting **Repeated**, we will ask to select the time duration after which we want to send out the notifications.
{% hint style="info" %}
The alternative way to define a schedule for alerts is by providing a CRON expression. A cron expression is a string comprising a number of fields that represent the individual details of a schedule. For more information on CRON expressions, see
{% endhint %}
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