Suspend node Expire period - what variables can be used?

[Guest Paul Alexander]

In a Suspend - Wait for Off Hold node, what can be added to the Expire Period if the 'variable' option is used please?

[Guest Ehsan]

Hi @Paul Alexander,

The 'Expire Period' attribute has to be in an ISO 8601 duration format.  The documentation links below explains the make-up of a duration value:

• http://books.xmlschemata.org/relaxng/ch19-77073.html
• https://www.digi.com/resources/documentation/digidocs/90001437-13/reference/r_iso_8601_duration_format.htm

To give you an example, if I wanted to set the period to 1 day 5 hours 6 minutes, I would set the Expire Period to P0Y0M1DT5H6M0S.

I hope this helps.

Ehsan

[Martyn Houghton]

@Ehsan @Paul Alexander

When specifying a value in the Expire Period, do you have to specify the whole period syntax or can you use the shorter form?

For example I want to insert a expiry period of a number of days from a task variable (&[functions.getTaskAnswers("task-e8053916-70e9-4b61-4f50-e7c658357139").Followup]).

Do you have to use the full syntax as per your example

P0Y0M&[functions.getTaskAnswers("task-e8053916-70e9-4b61-4f50-e7c658357139").Followup]DT0H0M0S

Or can you use

P0Y0M&[functions.getTaskAnswers("task-e8053916-70e9-4b61-4f50-e7c658357139").Followup]D

or

P&[functions.getTaskAnswers("task-e8053916-70e9-4b61-4f50-e7c658357139").Followup]D

Cheers

Martyn

[Guest Paul Alexander]

Hi @Martyn Houghton

We decided to not use this option - we cheated! 

We use an Integration Bridge 'Utilities/Get Timestamp' node to set how long to  put something on hold for, and then use the output of that as the expiry date in 'on hold':

 

[Martyn Houghton]

@Paul Alexander

Thanks, as we using the expiry period on the suspend node and not the  Place On Hold, I have to work with the period parameter, as most of the Suspend nodes do not have a expiry date/time option.

Cheers

Martyn