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Business Hours: Get Time Between

Overview

This action calculates the following times between two Date/Time values using only business hours: minutes, hours.

Important!

This action calculates the time between two Date/Time values but only using business hours! If the business hours are defined as 8 hours per day and you get the time between Monday at 12:00 PM and Thursday at 12:00PM this action will return 24 hours, not 72 hours.

Inputs

First Date/Time

The first Date/Time value used to calculate the time between two Date/Times.

Type
Date/Time

Second Date/Time

The second Date/Time value used to calculate the time between two Date/Times.

Type
Date/Time

Business Hours Id / Name

The Business Hours record Id or Name used to calculate the time between two Date/Times. If empty, the default Business Hours will be used.

Type
Text

Absolute Value Output

If set to true, the output values are always a positive number.

TypeDefault
Booleanfalse

Rounding Mode

The rounding mode used when calculating the time. The value must be a valid Rounding Mode value.

TypeDefault
TextHALF_EVEN

Decimal Scale

How many decimal points are used when calculating the time value between two Date/Time fields.

Type
Number

Outputs

The outputs are decimal values. For example, if the amount of business hours between two times was 3 hours and 45 mintues the minutes output would be 225 and the hours output would be 3.75.

Minutes

The number of minutes between the two Date/Time values.

TypeVariable Name
Numberminutes

Hours

The number of hours between the two Date/Time values.

TypeVariable Name
Numberhours