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Inline Function or Action to Calculate Business Days/Hours

There are many scenarios when you need to take into account business days/hours for a workflow. One example would be setting a due date for something, and only wanting to do it based on business days. There is currently not an easy way to do this. It would be great if there were either an inline function or a workflow action that allowed you to calculate a date and factor in business days/hours and even holidays.

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Brendan Murphy shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
Under Review  ·  Lisa Tam responded  · 

Hey all,
There looks to be 2 requests here
- Update Inline function to allow calculate date difference, factoring in only business days / hours
- Update Calculate date action to factor in only business days / hours
Can you please share which of the two you require and your use cases
Thanks
Lisa

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  • David cross commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    For me, it would be great if the "Add Time to Date" action had the ability to choose between the calendar and business options as well. I use the Add Time to Date function to set the due date for tasks. This would make it easy to set a due date that is three days from the current date and if I define my business days on my site as Monday through Friday, a task created on Thursday would be due on Tuesday rather than Sunday.

    Since this option is available in task escalations, it should not be too hard to implement I would think. However, it would be nice if you could calculate a due date directly in the task actions instead of having to use a separate "Add Time to Date" action to set a workflow variable as the due date.

  • Kyle commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be beneficial in NWC as well. Need the ability to set due dates in business days/hours.

  • LD commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    "There looks to be 2 requests here
    - Update Inline function to allow calculate date difference, factoring in only business days / hours
    - Update Calculate date action to factor in only business days / hours"

    We need both please.

    Lynn

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi

    You need both. Tasks Action include reminders which allows you to add business days - surely you need a method of calculating task duration using business days so the task duration is in business days...

  • Steve E commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Ideally both, but if I can only pick one I would go with inline function

  • Teresa commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In my use case, I would need the Calculate date action updated to not count business days / hours. In my approval workflow, I needed to send a different message if the submission was less than 3 days from the created date. To make that work, I had to first figure out what day of the week 3 days is and then create a different Calculate date if the date landed on Saturday or Sunday. Would have been nice to just check a box that said, don't include business days.

  • Ann Marshall commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Update Inline function to allow calculate date difference, factoring in only business days/hours.

    Thanks!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi Lisa,

    I would have to say I would like to get both but if I was pushed to choose it would be the calculate date action to factor in only business days /hours.

    Regards
    Daniel

  • Maxime TRIVIDIC commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hello,

    We need this two functionalities because :

    One for Nintex Forms side :
    - Update Inline function to allow calculate date difference, factoring in only business days / hours

    One for Nintex Workflow side :
    - Update Calculate date action to factor in only business days / hours

    Thank you so much !

  • Loïs BELLE commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hello Lisa,

    I would say both could be useful, but Calculate date action seems to be the most robust so that would be my first choice.

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