It would be nice if the schedule didn t wipe every time you

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It would be nice if the schedule didn t wipe every time you re apply a deployment

Anna Geller · Answer

just to clarify you would like that reapplying doesn t delete scheduled runs

Anna Geller · Answer

the issue with this is that when you reapply a deployment with a specific schedule you might want to specify a different schedule so deleting all scheduled runs when reapplying a deployment actually makes sense

Anna Geller · Answer

curious what s your use case what s your schedule interval how often do you reapply your deployment

Anna Geller · Answer

we already have several flags in place allowing you to e g only build or only apply a deployment and configure when upload happens upload skip upload

Anna Geller · Answer

additionally we are working on this which will allow you to set the schedule separately from the build apply steps <https github com PrefectHQ prefect pull 6697> I think this might be what you re looking for still WIP

Sam Garvis · Answer

My use case is that I would prefer to set the schedule through the UI but currently I feel this is not feasible because if I ever make a change to a deployment and apply through the CLI it nulls out the schedule So if I re apply something the schedule that I created through the UI now disappears It would be nice if the schedule didn t disappear if you don t specify a schedule through the CLI Because of this I am now specifying a cron job schedule through the CLI with cron but you can t specify timezone which is manual

Anna Geller · Answer

gt if I re apply something the schedule that I created through the UI now disappears I actually think that the opposite is true if you set the deployment through UI and you then reapply a deployment without any schedule then the current schedule set through the UI should be kept as long as you also run the build step <https discourse prefect io t i created a deployment then i added a schedule from the ui when i then reran the build step the yaml file had the same schedule as i defined from the ui even though i didn t specify that schedule manually from cli or in yaml why is that happening 1460|https discourse prefect io t i created a deployment then i added a schedule from the le manually from cli or in yaml why is that happening 1460>

Anna Geller · Answer

so I believe the solution you are looking for is using `prefect deployment build apply` + setting schedule through UI if this is not working as described in the Discourse topic please open a GitHub issue