How to stop running business rule on specific period of time

[Supriya25]

Hi Team,

we have two business(insert, update operation) , which plays major role in daily activity.

This two Business rules should work only between morning 6AM-afternoon 3PM.  after 3PM/before 6AM if any insertion/updating happens on record these BR's should not respond..

Every day we can't deactivate/Activate , so How can we achieve it ? any possibility ?

[luffy3478]

it is possible. add your logic in a script inclue and call the script inclue from the BR condition field

[Jim Coyne]

Definitely an odd use case, but it is possible.

1. create a Schedule and configure your run times

2. in the Business Rules, add the following code:

(function executeRule(current, previous /*null when async*/) {
    //replace the sys_id with the id of the appropriate schedule
    //or use a System Property to avoid hard-coding
    var schedule = new GlideSchedule("090eecae0a0a0b260077e1dfa71da828");
    if (schedule.isInSchedule(new GlideDateTime(gs.nowDateTime()))) {
        // Add your code that you want to run during that time period here
        ...
        ...
    }
})(current, previous);

The "isInSchedule" call will verify if the current date/time is within that time period and if so, will run your code.  The nice thing about using a Schedule is you can modify the Schedule to do testing or make changes to when it is allowed to run without touching any code, just a change in data.

You could also create a Script Include and call it from the Condition field, but not sure which is more efficient to be honest.  The nice thing about this is everything is self-contained.

[Supriya25]

Thank you, please let me try your solution

[Jim Coyne]

Let me know how it goes