Cron Backfill

Use Case

• You are using cron workflows to run daily jobs, you may need to re-run for a date, or run some historical days.

Solution

1. Create a workflow template for your daily job.
2. Create your cron workflow to run daily and invoke that template.
3. Create a backfill workflow that uses withSequence to run the job for each date.

This full example contains:

• A workflow template named job.
• A cron workflow named daily-job.
• A workflow named backfill-v1 that uses a resource template to create one workflow for each backfill date.
• A alternative workflow named backfill-v2 that uses a steps templates to run one task for each backfill date.

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