Scheduling & TemporalTemporal

Scheduling guide Activity | Workflow

Temporal endpoint properties

Common configuration for on-demand execution and optional durable scheduling.

When to use

Use this page while designing, implementing, operating, or troubleshooting scheduled and durable execution.

Behavior

temporalExecutionType selects Activity or Workflow generation.
taskQueue binds starters and workers.
Empty schedule means on-demand only; a non-empty value also provisions a Temporal Schedule.

Execution properties

Durable execution settings.

PropertyTypeDescription

temporalExecutionTypeenum

Generated execution type.

RequiredDefault: ActivityAllowed: Activity, Workflow

taskQueuestring

Temporal task queue.

RequiredDefault: default

workflowExecutionTimeoutmilliseconds

Total execution limit; zero means no explicit limit.

Default: 0Minimum: 0

activityStartToCloseTimeoutmilliseconds

One Activity attempt limit.

Default: 30000Minimum: 1Activity only.

activityHeartbeatTimeoutmilliseconds

Heartbeat limit; zero disables it.

Default: 0Minimum: 0Activity only.

maximumAttemptsinteger

Maximum Activity attempts; currently required by the endpoint contract.

RequiredDefault: 1Minimum: 1

Schedule properties

Optional durable schedule fields.

PropertyTypeDescription

enabledboolean

Enables endpoint registration.

Default: true

schedulestring

Optional five-field expression.

scheduleIdstring

Stable server-side Schedule ID.

Required when schedule is non-empty.

timezoneenum

Schedule timezone.

Default: UTCAllowed: UTC

overlapPolicyenum

Scheduled start overlap.

Default: SkipAllowed: Allow, Skip

missedRunPolicyenum

Missed scheduled starts.

Default: FireOnceAllowed: Skip, FireOnce

Product-level example

temporalExecutionType: Activity
taskQueue: billing
maximumAttempts: 3
activityStartToCloseTimeout: 30000
schedule: ""