gs.sleep() in business rule?

[Kiddy]

I am using gs.sleep(5000) in after business rule ,when i submit form it is waiting for 5 seconds to submit ,does gs.sleep haluts form submission if we use it in after business rule??

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi,

It is not good practice to use gs.sleep() in any of the code and is not recommended; what is your use case to make it wait for 5 seconds after record submission

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Ankur

[Kiddy]

Hi Ankur ,

I am trying to update metric instance table record by creating previous value(custom field which captures previous value of incident field)  ,i dont find the latest record when i update incident so i have to wait for some time to query for latest record in metric instance table and update it

[Yashaswini]

Hi,

On delaying is the latest metric instance is updated?

Please let me know, because I have similar requirement.

Regards,

Yashaswini

[Adrian Ubeda · Accepted solution]

Hi, 

Instead of using gs.sleep() use events for triggering that BR, it's best practice. Here's an example of delay applied on business rule and trigger event:

var when = new GlideDateTime();

var delay = new GlideTime();

delay.setValue("00:00:05");

when.add(delay);

gs.eventQueueScheduled("event_name", current, "", "", when);

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Thanks,