Title: Choose a trigger Description: Start workflows from releases, feed items, intervals, or OpenPost publishing events. Canonical: https://openpo.st/docs/workflows/triggers Source: [https://openpo.st/docs/workflows/triggers](https://openpo.st/docs/workflows/triggers) # Choose a trigger Choose the event that should start your workflow. Use a manual trigger while you are configuring steps, or select a source for automatic runs. ## Available triggers Choose a manual trigger, GitHub release, RSS/Atom item, interval, new post, published variant, or publishing failure. New-post triggers exclude posts created by automation. Failure triggers preserve recorded failures even if the post is retried before the next check. ## GitHub and feeds GitHub and RSS/Atom sources check every five minutes. Activation records existing items as the starting point; they do not create runs. Future items start runs once each. A feed can only supply items it still retains. Catching up across many GitHub releases may take several checks. Use an RSS/Atom trigger for one run per new article. To collect several articles on a timer, combine an interval trigger with **Read RSS feed**, as in the [feed digest example](https://openpo.st/docs/workflows/examples/feed-digest). For private GitHub repositories, choose a [saved connection](https://openpo.st/docs/workflows/connections) with access to the intended repository. ## Intervals Choose an interval from 5 minutes to 30 days. It starts counting at activation. It does not choose a weekday or clock time. After downtime, it skips missed intervals rather than replaying every missed run. ## Activate or pause [Preview your workflow](https://openpo.st/docs/workflows/testing), resolve **Needs attention** warnings, then select **Publish workflow**. Publish again after changing its draft to update future automatic runs. Existing runs retain the definition they started with. **Pause new runs** stops automatic admission. Existing runs continue. See [run controls](https://openpo.st/docs/workflows/runs) to cancel remaining steps.