Daily or weekly

Post a scheduled reminder in Teams

Your channel gets the same reminder at the same time, without anyone having to remember to post it.

Runs: Daily or weekly
Apps: Microsoft Teams
AI: Not needed
Access: write (ChannelMessage.Send)

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every weekday at 9am, post 'Please update your pending tickets before standup' to our Support channel in Teams.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Every team has messages that should go out at the same time each week and are forgotten about whenever the person responsible is busy. The Friday reminder to submit timesheets, the Monday post listing this week's priorities, the daily reminder that the build freeze starts at 3 p.m. Each one depends on a single person remembering, and when that person is sick or on holiday, the reminder does not appear and a deadline is missed.

At the days and times you pick, ClickRuntime builds the message text and posts it into the Microsoft Teams channel you chose. The text can be fixed wording, or it can include the date or other details that change each time. Nobody has to open Teams to send it.

Team leads, office managers and project coordinators use it for reminders, daily status lines and recurring announcements.

What you get out of it

Deadlines are met more often
A timesheet reminder that appears every Friday at 2 p.m. gets more people to submit on time than one that depends on a manager remembering. Fewer late submissions mean less chasing and fewer payroll corrections.
Reminders no longer depend on one person
When the usual sender is on leave, the message still goes out at its usual time. A process that relies on someone's memory is fragile, and a schedule removes that single point of failure.
Consistent wording builds a habit
A message posted at the same time with the same format teaches the team to expect it. People start looking for the Monday priorities post, so it gets read instead of ignored.
Time zones are handled once
You set the delivery time once, so a distributed team gets the post at a sensible hour. Nobody has to send it from their own evening or early morning. That suits managers coordinating people across several offices.
Posts can carry the date or changing details
A daily status line can include today's date, a sprint day count or a link that is different each week. That keeps repeated messages useful, instead of reading like the same notice.
A tidy record in the channel
Scrolling back through the channel shows when each reminder or announcement went out. That is helpful when someone claims they never heard about a deadline. It also settles disputes quickly.

How it works

What happens, step by step

At the time you choose, every day or every week, ClickRuntime wakes up and runs.
It uses the message you wrote, for example: "Please update your pending tickets before standup."
The message is posted to your Microsoft Teams channel, such as Support, so nobody has to remember to send it.

Before it runs live

Connect Microsoft Teams

What you get

RunsDaily or weekly

Post a scheduled reminder in Teamstoday, 9:00Succeeded

Teams · SupportPlease update your pending tickets before standup

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Microsoft Teams steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

post_a_message_to_a_channel_on_a_schedule.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http

GRAPH = "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0"
TEAM_ID, CHANNEL_ID = "your-team-id", "19:support-channel-id@thread.tacv2"

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    token = credentials.connection("microsoft", "work")
    resp = http.post(f"{GRAPH}/teams/{TEAM_ID}/channels/{CHANNEL_ID}/messages",
                     headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"},
                     json={"body": {"content": "Please update your pending tickets before standup"}})
    resp.raise_for_status()
    return {"message_id": resp.json()["id"]}

FAQ

Common questions

Can I post to more than one channel?

Yes. A message can go to several channels, each with its own text, for example a general reminder to the whole team and a more detailed version to managers. Each channel is set up as a separate step in the same schedule.

What if the message needs to change every week?

The text can be built from a template that fills in details such as the date, or it can pull in values from another source. Fixed reminders are the simplest, and templates cover the weekly variations.

Does the message appear as coming from a person?

It is posted using the account or app identity you connect to Microsoft Teams, so it appears as coming from that sender and not from an individual colleague. Choose an account whose name makes sense to readers.

What permissions does it need?

write (ChannelMessage.Send). Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (daily or weekly). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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