Can Make run tasks based on an offset from some date? E.g. "two days before offboarding"?

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How would I handle a scenario like: “run some task at 4pm two days before the offboarding date of some individual, as retrieved from the HRIS system”?
Or even: “run some task at 10am on the next business day after the onboarding date of some individual, as retrieved from the HRIS system”?

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Here you go.

  1. In the first case, schedule a scenario for 4:00 pm every day. Here list all the individuals who are scheduled or marked for offboarding then use the filter to compare offboarding date i.e. offboarding date is equal to Now+2. It will process only the people who are going to offboard in Today+2 days.

  2. Second case, schedule the scenario to run at 10:00 am every day. List all the candidates marked for onboarding and apply a filter to get only whos onboarding date is equal to Now+1.

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Hi @Growwstacks.com , OK, so in Make this would be pull-based (check every day, as opposed to scheduling a task for a specific time).

It looks like your suggestion covers the first case perfectly.
It covers the second partially, although I think you meant Now-1 (one day after onboarding).
It does not cover the “next business day” part. I think I can see how that would work though. We would need to check whether Now is a business day maybe via a calendar integration.

Thanks!