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*Is it possible to trigger a flow on a bounded schedule, e.g. 2 weeks?*

We have an ML inference job that we would like to run for a bounded period of time, say 10 days.
Is that possible to provide Prefect 2.0 a start and end date and ensure a recurring daily schedule (e.g. every day at 2 am) that ends on a particular date?

There are practical reasons you can’t just toggle the deployment’s schedule on and off in the UI?

Assuming there is, here is a workaround

1. Create that deployment
2. Create a deployment for a new flow
    a. This deployment runs on the 10 day interval
    b. The flow sets the target deployment’s `is_schedule_active`  to false and then saves it

<@U0495JG8RB7> thank you for the advice! how do you programmatically set the `is_schedule_active` to false? I saw this field in the deployment yaml but I’d rather avoid manually modifying files and instead use the Prefect REST API

<https://medium.com/the-prefect-blog/why-not-cron-3bd42303ed7b>
<https://docs.prefect.io/latest/concepts/schedules/>

Great that you found rule by yourself :joy: that's kinda hard to explain