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Using Deadlines Based on Hours

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Updated January 20, 2017

asked on May 2, 2016

We have a customer that needs to measure if they hit deadlines mandated by the state. They have a 24 hour deadline to respond to items after a Preliminary Date and Time is agreed upon. I have the deadline set to 24 hours after the Preliminary Date variable in Forms. However, the Preliminary Time is not a variable that I am able to add to set the Deadline. The system automatically uses midnight at the deadline time. For example, if I set the Preliminary Date to May 3rd. Forms sets the deadline for the task to May 4th at 12:00 am. We need it to be 24 hours from the Preliminary Date and Time. Is there a way to set this somewhere?

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replied on May 3, 2016

The due date in Forms 10 can only based on Date variable, you can set it to 24 hours after a date variable, but value from customize time field can't be configured.

Forms 11 will add time field and time variable can be used in due date as well.

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replied on January 13, 2017

Hi there-

I know it's not version 11, but I was hoping hour-based deadlines would be available in the 10.2 release. Am I missing something? I don't see my time variable as an option for the deadline.

Realistically, I only need the number of hours to be able to populate from a variable, rather than being hard-coded.

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replied on January 20, 2017

So you want to the value before hours to be able to use a number variable instead of use a time variable?

With Forms 10.2, what is supported is, you can add a date field and enable "Show Time" for it, then you can configure to be 24 hours after a specified date and time.

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replied on January 20, 2017

Thanks for the clarification. In this case, the deadline is 24 hours under normal circumstances or 4 hours if flagged as urgent. Having the hour offset be a variable would make that kind of logic easier to handle.

The way this particular process is handled is that tasks are actually kicked off by Workflow, which doesn't seem to be able to set the time part of a date field that has a time display (sending a datetime value only sets the date portion from WF 10.2). It can set an independent time field, but that cannot be used in the deadline logic.

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