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sarathkumr268295
sarathkumr268295
August 8, 2023
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Triggering tasks

  • August 8, 2023
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User will complete one task namely task A today and the next task named task B should be created only at 5AM EST the next day. Until 5AM EST, the process has to be in waiting stage. Task A can be completed at any time the previous day. How to achieve this?

Thanks in advance

6 replies

stefanhelzle0001
stefanhelzle0001
Brainy
August 8, 2023

Did you consider to schedule task B?

docs.appian.com/.../Process_Node_and_Smart_Service_Properties.html

sarathkumr268295
sarathkumr268295Author
August 8, 2023

yeah something like that
but I am not sure how to trigger it exactly at 5am EST. Like how to get time of that particular timezone and trigger it?
and it should not change based on loggedin user's timezone. I am confused like which time value I can take as reference and proceed further

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harshitham3563
August 8, 2023

One approach is First, get the task A completed date and store it in a process variable and then for the Task B in the

Scheduling --> Sceduled start ---> dont start node until -->in the expression rule 

 now = pv!taskACompletedDate+1 and use local() function with the timezone as EST

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harshitham3563
August 8, 2023

Hi,  You can open the user input task properties and in the scheduling you can configure the task when you want the task to get triggered

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deepakg681722
August 9, 2023

Between Task A and Task B you can use timer event to wait untill the next day 5AM EST. 

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