Add sleep or delay in your script for global + scoped app

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Many a times there is a need to add some delay in your script in server side.

Below script will work in both global + scoped app. The value passed is duration value. I passed 10 seconds in duration format. It can be customized as per your requirement.

Script:

gs.info('Before delay->' + new GlideDateTime().getValue());

var now = new GlideDateTime();
while(GlideDateTime.subtract(now, new GlideDateTime()) < "1970-01-01 00:00:10") {
// loop for 10 seconds}

gs.info('After delay->' + new GlideDateTime().getValue());

Output: Global scope

Output: Scoped app

[khandelwal2]

Hi @Ankur Bawiskar ,

I tried this in my script but it didn't work. I want the workflow to trigger after few seconds. Can you please let me know what am i doing wrong here?

createTransferOrderLines: function(transferOrderGr, recordProducer) {

        var assets = recordProducer.assets + '';

        var assetsArr = assets.split(",");

        var assetsArrLength = assetsArr.length;

        if (assetsArrLength === 0) {

            return false;

        } else {

            for (var i = 0; i < assetsArrLength; i++) {

                //create order lines

                var assetGR = new GlideRecord('alm_asset');

                if (assetGR.get(assetsArr[i])) {

                    var transferAsset = new GlideRecord('alm_transfer_order_line');

                    transferAsset.initialize();

                    transferAsset.setValue('transfer_order', transferOrderGr);

                    transferAsset.setValue('asset', assetsArr[i]);

                    transferAsset.setValue('quantity_requested', '1');

                    transferAsset.setValue('model', assetGR.model);

                    transferAsset.setValue('stage', 'draft');

                    transferAsset.setWorkflow(false);

                    var transferOrderLine = transferAsset.insert();

                    //  transferAsset.setWorkflow(true);

                    if (transferOrderLine) {

                        gs.info('Before delay->' + new GlideDateTime().getValue());

                        var now = new GlideDateTime();

                        while (GlideDateTime.subtract(now, new GlideDateTime()) < "1970-01-01 00:00:10") {

                            // loop for 10 seconds

                        }

                        gs.info('After delay->' + new GlideDateTime().getValue());

                        var wflw = new Workflow();

                        var wfId = wflw.getWorkflowFromName('Transfer Order Line');

                        if (wfId) {

                            wflw.startFlow(wfId, transferAsset, 'insert');

                        }

                    }

                }

            }

        }

    },

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@khandelwal2 

can you post this as a separate question, share all the details and tag me there