{"id":1270,"date":"2023-11-14T22:47:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T22:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=1270"},"modified":"2023-11-20T19:24:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T19:24:30","slug":"rule-example-5-run-facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/knowledge-base\/rule-example-5-run-facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule Example 5: Run Facebook Campaigns Only During Working Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the title suggests, this dayparting rule will automatically run your campaigns only during working hours, and pause them the rest of the time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"482\" src=\"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P1-1024x482.png\" alt=\"Rule Example Facebook TheOptimizer 5: Run Facebook Campaigns Only During Working Hours P1\" class=\"wp-image-1271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P1-1024x482.png 1024w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P1-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P1-768x362.png 768w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P1-50x24.png 50w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P1-1536x723.png 1536w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P1-2048x964.png 2048w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P1-60x28.png 60w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P1-100x47.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 1: <\/strong>We can first <strong>name and group the rule<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Select an easily recognizable name for your rule.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can also add a rule group to sort through your rules easily.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Next, select your <strong>rule conditions<\/strong>. We can select over 100+ metrics and set as many conditions as needed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In this example, we are only focusing on one condition &#8211; the hour of day. TheOptimizer will only run your campaigns during working hours, which means Monday-Friday from 09:00 &#8211; 17:00. You can change the account timezone to reflect the timezone of your ad account.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P2-1024x384.png\" alt=\"Rule Example Facebook TheOptimizer 5: Run Facebook Campaigns Only During Working Hours P2\" class=\"wp-image-1272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P2-1024x384.png 1024w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P2-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P2-768x288.png 768w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P2-50x19.png 50w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P2-1536x576.png 1536w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P2-2048x767.png 2048w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P2-60x22.png 60w, https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rule-Run-Facebook-campaigns-only-during-working-hours-P2-100x37.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong> Here, you need to <strong>specify the rule action<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Within the selected working hours, your campaigns will be active. The rest of the time, they will be paused.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 4:<\/strong> Now, you need to <strong>specify which campaigns <\/strong>you want to apply this rule to. You can manually select campaigns, or you can use the filter on the right, to bulk add all active campaigns, all paused campaigns, or filter campaigns by a keyword.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 5:<\/strong> In the final step, you will <strong>schedule the rule and alerts<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>By clicking on \u201cExecute rule even when campaigns are paused\u201d, you will give TheOptimizer access to restart your campaigns at the times you specified.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can set your rule to \u201cAlert Only\u201d, \u201cExecute\u201d, or \u201cExecute &amp; Alert\u201d. The first option will not make any changes to your campaigns, but it will notify you via email, Slack, or Telegram when the rule conditions have been met. \u201cExecute\u201d will immediately apply the rule and not send you any notifications about it. \u201cExecute &amp; Alert\u201d will apply the rule, and also notify you whenever the rule has been applied.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next rule example <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn how to clone Facebook campaigns with rules <a href=\"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/knowledge-base\/rule-example-6-clone-facebook-campaigns-with-positive-roas\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This dayparting rule will automatically run your campaigns only during working hours, and pause them the rest of the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[37],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1270","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-how-to-set-up-automation-rules-for-facebook-with-examples"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1270\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoptimizer.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}