Flow Designer Action "Verify Inside Schedule"

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Hi there,

Sometimes you just need to verify if a certain Date/Time is within a Schedule or not. Browsing the ServiceNow Community you will come across several (good) solutions. Ideally you would have such a solution available in such a way, that you can re-use it easily. For example using a Script Include, or… Flow Designer action!

GlideSchedule API

Key of verifying if a Date/Time is within a Schedule is the "GlideSchedule" API. There are several functions for this API, though we are specifically interested in "isInSchedule". Looking at the Docs, usage could be something like: 

var sched = new GlideSchedule(schedule_sys_id);
var date = new GlideDateTime();

if(sched.isInSchedule(date))
    gs.info("Is in the schedule");
else
    gs.info("Is NOT in the schedule");

Action

We just need to transform the script mentioned, into a Flow Designer Action. Just adding that the Schedule and Date/Time could be provided as inputs to make the Action dynamic and that the Action returns an output which represents if the Date/Time provided is within the provided Schedule.

Inputs could be:

Outputs could be:

Using the inputs and outputs we've set up, the Script step could be something like:

Now simply save and publish the Action!

Schedule

Sure, obviously you do need to have a Schedule available. If this concerns a Date/Time check for within working hours of a workday Schedule, just have a look if your company already has such a Schedule.

Though what If you would like to check if the Date/Time is on a workday, not specifically within the working hours? You could solve this with some complex scripting, or… just creating a new Schedule. A new Schedule, which would have the same days and child (holiday) Schedule as your regular workday Schedule. The only difference that this new Schedule does not run from 9 AM till 5 PM, though 24 hours.

Result

Within a Flow Designer Flow or Subflow, you would now have the possibility to add the Action created.

Output of the Action would be a true/false boolean.

For example you could now verify if a Date/Time field from a queried record, is within a Schedule. Because the Date/Time field is not mandatory (and by default the current Date/Time) you could also use this Action to verify if when the Flow is running, is within a Schedule.

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An Update Set with this Flow Designer Action can be downloaded from Share:
- Flow Designer Action "Verify Inside Schedule"

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And that's it actually. If any questions or remarks, let me know!

Kind regards,

Mark Roethof

ServiceNow Technical Platform Architect @ Quint Technology

2x ServiceNow Developer MVP

2x ServiceNow Community MVP

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