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.
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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Daphne Santiago commented
Please include as inline and workflow calculate function.
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David cross commented
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.
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Kyle commented
This would be beneficial in NWC as well. Need the ability to set due dates in business days/hours.
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AVD15 commented
Much needed feature... both of course!
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LD commented
"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
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Anonymous commented
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...
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Allan Helbling commented
Both, obviously
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Anonymous commented
Both, ASAP
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Allan Helbling commented
Both of course.
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Allan Helbling commented
Both, of course.
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Rhia Wieclawek commented
Both are required.
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Steve Stirn commented
I would suggest both if possible.
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Steve E commented
Ideally both, but if I can only pick one I would go with inline function
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Teresa commented
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.
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Romain Dalle commented
My belief is that if you can update one, you can update both of them ?
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Ann Marshall commented
Update Inline function to allow calculate date difference, factoring in only business days/hours.
Thanks!
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Anonymous commented
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
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Maxime TRIVIDIC commented
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 / hoursOne for Nintex Workflow side :
- Update Calculate date action to factor in only business days / hoursThank you so much !
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Cassy Freeman commented
Both would be good @Lisa but the second is the one I really want.
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Jesper Munk Nielsen commented
I would say Update Calculate date action to factor in only business days / hours is the most important of the two.