Example for interval automation

docs/source/automation/example-interval.md

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+# Automation Example - Interval Trigger
+
+Note: This document is a work in progress and is subject to change.
+
+We will walk through the process of creating an [automation](overview.md) using `Interval` trigger on Latch which will run automation workflow hourly. We assume that you understand how to write and register [Workflows](../basics/what_is_a_workflow.md) on Latch.
+
+**Terms:**
+- _Automation Workflow_: workflow which will be called by automation. This is the workflow we create in [step 1](#1-create-the-automation-workflow) of this tutorial.
+
+## 1: Create the Automation Workflow
+Below is a simple workflow example which creates folder `output` with a file locally and pushes it to Latch Data.
+
+Note: to upload `LatchDir` or ``
+
+1. Initialize a new workflow using `latch init automation-wf`.
+2. Replace `__init__.py` and `task.py` with the following sample code.
+    ```python
+    # __init__.py
+
+    from wf.task import task
+
+    from latch.resources.workflow import workflow
+    from latch.types.directory import LatchDir, LatchOutputDir
+    from latch.types.file import LatchFile
+    from latch.types.metadata import LatchAuthor, LatchMetadata, LatchParameter
+
+    metadata = LatchMetadata(
+        display_name="Interval Automation Workflow",
+        author=LatchAuthor(
+            name="Your Name",
+        ),
+        # Note: parameters have to be empty for this workflow to be successfully run by the automation
+        parameters={},
+    )
+
+
+    @workflow(metadata)
+    def workflow() -> None:
+        task()
+    ```
+
+    ```python
+    # task.py
+
+    import os
+    from urllib.parse import urljoin
+
+    from latch import message
+    from latch.resources.tasks import small_task
+    from latch.types.directory import LatchDir, LatchFile, LatchOutputDir
+
+    @small_task
+    def task() -> LatchDir:
+        os.mkdir("output")
+        with open("output/hello_world.txt", 'w') as file:
+            file.write("Hello World!")
+
+        return LatchDir("output", "LDATA PATH FOR THE DIRECTORY")
+    ```
+
+3. Register the sample target workflow with Latch using
+```shell-session
+$ latch register --remote --yes automation-wf
+```
+5. Test the workflow by running it on Latch
+
+## 2. Create Automation
+
+Navigate to [Automations](https://console.latch.bio/automations) tab via **Worfklows** > **Automations** and click on the **Create Automation** button.
+
+1. Input an **Automation Name** and **Description**.
+
+2. Select the `Event Type` as `Interval`.
+
+3. Specify `Interval` to 1 hour.
+
+4. Select the automation workflow that you have just registered with Latch.
+
+![Create Interval Automation Example](../assets/automation/create-interval-automation-example.png)

docs/source/automation/overview.md

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     In case you need more parameters to pass your workflow, we suggest to hard-code them into your workflow while we are working on adding parameter support for automations.
 
-See an [example](automation-usecase.md) of how we create an automation workflow with `Data Added` trigger which reads all children of the target directory and kicks off another workflow which runs processing on child directories.
+See an [example](example-data-addition.md) of how we create an automation workflow with `Data Added` trigger which reads all children of the target directory and kicks off another workflow which runs processing on child directories.
 
 ## Creating an Automation
 
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ See an [example](automation-usecase.md) of how we create an automation workflow
 
     5. Select the [automation workflow](#automation-workflow) that you have just registered with Latch.
 
-Checkout an [example](automation-usecase.md) on how to create and register automation workflows with `Data Added` triggers.
+Checkout an [example](example-data-addition.md) on how to create and register automation workflows with `Data Added` triggers.
 
 ![Create Automation Example](../assets/automation/create-automation-example.png)
 

docs/source/index.md

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 :maxdepth: 2
 :caption: Automation
 automation/overview.md
-automation/automation-usecase.md
+automation/example-data-addition.md
+automation/example-interval.md
 ```
 
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