question can I use the SetTimeout() function within a business rule, or something equivalent? in SPM forum

can I use the SetTimeout() function within a business rule, or something equivalent?

Jason Stephens — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:44:54 GMT

Does the SetTimeout() function work in a business rule as it does in a client script? I know there are things that will/will not work between the two. Basically I need to add a delay within a business rule before I manipulate a field.

Thanks for the help.

Re: can I use the SetTimeout() function within a business rule, or something equivalent?

Mark Stanger — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:47:34 GMT

setTimeout is client side javascript. You should be able to use 'gs.sleep()' though.

Re: can I use the SetTimeout() function within a business rule, or something equivalent?

CapaJ — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:12:46 GMT

Parameter is in milliseconds. So gs.sleep(5000); will give you a 5-second pause.

Re: can I use the SetTimeout() function within a business rule, or something equivalent?

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:03:41 GMT

I'm just curious - do you know why it is that you need to pause?

Re: can I use the SetTimeout() function within a business rule, or something equivalent?

Jason Stephens — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:36:38 GMT

We have a business rule that, when it finishes/updates, triggers an outbound update to Omnibus. In that business rule, we are appending an "-x" to the correlation ID field in the incident to signify closed to Omnibus. Basically the "-X" causes the correlation ID to NOT match any inbound ID's from Omnibus, so we know to create a new incident.

We need the pause before the field update to allow the outbound message to be sent to Omnibus before the "-X" is added. If the "-X" is added before the update, then Omnibus is confused because the correlation ID doesn't match any that it has out there.

This is a very roundabout way to id, but due to the implementation of Omnibus in our environment, this is the way we are trying to do it.

I'm open to suggestions - I actually have another post asking if anyone can help me remove the "-X" in the outbound message before it send to Omnibus. I don't know enough about this piece of code to make that happen, so the only other way I could fiuyre to do it was to delay the field update until the message got sent.

Jason

Re: can I use the SetTimeout() function within a business rule, or something equivalent?

kungfuu72 — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 02:20:58 GMT

Mark Stanger, I also had a need for this in a custom application that we are building out.

I had a question about it though, that may seems like a crazy question, but I have to make sure.

doing

gs.sleep(5000);

only pauses the execution for the executing code, and NOT other code that is being executed, correct?

Re: can I use the SetTimeout() function within a business rule, or something equivalent?

Mark Stanger — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:10:52 GMT

That depends on whether the other code is executing synchronously or not. Any code after the 'gs.sleep' command will wait for the full sleep to happen first unless it's in an async business rule I believe. Outside of that, it would be the 'order' field on a business rule for example that would control the synchronous ordering.

Re: can I use the SetTimeout() function within a business rule, or something equivalent?

Sagar Patro — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 13:48:02 GMT

Hi Mark,

Maybe out of context, but we want to pause the notification script execution for some time. Do you think using gs.sleep() is a good idea in there?

Please let me know.

Thanks