Help with script for timer

[John Vo1]

Can someone help me with a script that will create a task in 1 week from the start date?

So for an onboarding request HR will enter a start date.  I want a task created in 1 week from that start date on the catalog item.

Here is my workflow 

This is what's in my timer.  But when I ran my test it creates the 1 week follow up task.

[johnfeist]

Put a Run Script after your timer.

Hope that helps.

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[Steven Parker · Accepted solution]

The timer activity is based on seconds when scripting.  There are 86400 seconds in a day.  So multiply that by 7 days and you get 604800.

So in your timer activity change the "Timer Based On:" field to "Script" and then use the following script:

answer = 604800;

That's in seconds...so you can always test it by putting 120 in there and see if it waits 2 minutes before creating your 1 week task.

Here is an example from our instance from a "Timer Activity" where we wait until the "Travel End Date" from a catalog item before proceeding in the workflow:

// Set 'answer' to the number of seconds this timer should wait
answer = gs.dateDiff(gs.now(), current.variables.end_date.getDisplayValue(),true);