Check field when date/time field = now.

[dodom2]

Good Morning All.

This should be pretty basic but I can't figure out a solution so hopefully you guys can help. I need to check a boolean field when a date and time field = now. I have to schedule cron to run every minute for this which uses the report feature. The report feature doesn't have a now option so I believe my only option is using an expression. Does anyone use a expression or know how to put one together that would allow for pulling a report when this field = now?

[shalmaxb]

You can do that with formula:

I will use your field "send to KDS" and a checkbox field, that will be checked, when in send to KDS there is now

ifThen(
sendToKds == datetime\now(),
entity\setAttribute('checkbox', true)
);

Try that and return here, if it does not work.

[dimyy]

1. sendToKds == datetime\now()
2. My recomendation is sendToKds < datetime\now() && !checkbox. Probability of executing cron task exactly in 00s is not 100%

[dodom2]

By doing this is there a way of specifying time zone? or does it use the users time zone or system time zone?

[shalmaxb]

You can try to provide the timezone in the formula. I don`t know, if it will work, but in other datetime functions it works.

If so, it would be like this, but I did not test it:

ifThen(
sendToKds == datetime\now('America/New_York'),
entity\setAttribute('checkbox', true)
);

[esforim]

Timezone does work in formula, I recently came across this issue (see Feature request).

As for the other coding above, I'm not too familiar with.