# Custom Schedules in Tableau Prep Conductor | A Step-by-Step Guide | Tableau 2024.2

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2025-01-29
- **Format:** Video · 3 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data prep, Productivity
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, prep, pulse)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/custom-schedules-in-tableau-prep-conductor-a-step-by-step-guide-tableau-2024-2
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziXhXEQHfYk

I walk through the custom schedules feature for Tableau Prep Conductor in Tableau Cloud 2024.2. Using a flow that powers my Tableau Pulse demo dataset, I show how to open the schedule tab, set a custom cadence such as the last day of the month, and configure email notifications when a task completes.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau 2024.2 lets you set custom schedules for Prep flows, accessible via the new Schedule button in web authoring or on desktop.
- Custom schedules give more flexibility than fixed options: choose hourly, daily, weekly or monthly cadence, the time, and specific days such as the last day of the month.
- Tableau automatically calculates the last day of the month, which is useful for jobs that must run on that day rather than relying on the 28th as a safe default.
- You can assign a specific output to a task, so different parts of one flow can be scheduled to output at different times.
- An optional email notification can alert someone in the business when the flow has run and a dashboard has been refreshed.

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/custom-schedules-in-tableau-prep-conductor-a-step-by-step-guide-tableau-2024-2

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