Thanks Carey, and thanks LJ,
It seems the Business Time Diff worked to fit all the requirements. It
runs when the form has been rejected. I used a start time of "Status
History.Pending Approval.TIME" End Time of $TIMESTAMP$ "Company" Company"
the result goes to an interger field called "Calc Time".
I have a "Base Time" whose value is always 18000, and a "Total Time Used" field
that is set as (Total Time Used + Calc Time) which is subtracted from the Base
Time, which leaves "Time Remaining"
I went this way because each time the form goes into "Pending Approval" status,
an email is sent to the manager and it must include the time remaining.
Thank you again for your suggestion, they put me in the right direction.
Best Regards,
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: Carey Matthew Black
Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:06 pm
Subject: Re: Need Help Counting down with Business Time
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
> Tom,
>
> "
> If its rejected the clock stops and the form is sent back to the
> submitter. When it is resubmitted it returns to the manager and the
> clock starts counting down - From where it left off.
> "
>
> If the approver has multiple time segments then you need to
> track how
> much time has elapsed in the previous segments. That way you can
> subtract that from the total "5 hours" so that the total time the
> approver has never exceeds the 5 business hours, but could have gaps
> where the "end user" is responsible for the time.
>
>
> The first calculation would be as LJ suggested. ( Business Time Add
> "now" + 5 hours.)
>
> However if the approver assigns the ticket to the requester
> after 23
> minutes then the approver would still have 4 hrs 37 minutes (business
> time) to finish there processing after the ticket is returned to the
> approver.
>
> ( repeat as needed )
>
> However you will also likely find that the approver will want (or
> maybe need) some kind of reminder at 1, 2 or maybe 3 hours
> before they
> run out of time too. So there could be other calculations that you
> want to do during the lifecycle for notification reasons too.
>
>
> HTH.
>
> --
> Carey Matthew Black
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>
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>
>
> On 5/30/07, L. J. Head wrote:
> > **
> >
> > I would say that you would want to use the Business Time Add
> function...take> 'now', or your starting time and add 5 hours.
> This will give you the
> > timestamp of when he has to have it done by. Then you can run
> an escalation
> > or something checking if timestamp is > that value and take action
> >
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> > Subject: Need Help Counting down with Business Time
> >
> >
> > **
> > Hi Listers,
> >
> > Having never used this process before I am trying to get
> a handle on
> > which process I should be using for this workflow. We have a
> manager that
> > must approve or reject information being turned over for
> server site
> > preparation. He is being give a 5 hour clock in which each
> time a form is
> > submitted he has 5 hours to approve or reject it. If its
> rejected the clock
> > stops and the form is sent back to the submitter. When it is
> resubmitted it
> > returns to the manager and the clock starts counting down -
> From where it
> > left off. Think Jack Bauer but with only 5 hours.
> > I'm just not sure how best to approach this, any ideas?
> >
> > Best Regards,
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