Personas 2.0 - Adding a pause to a script

[shane_kelly2]

We have a script button that goes to another transaction - and creates an output - but the record is locked while the output is being created.

Is there a way to add a pause into a script for a second or two so that it has a chance to create the output, and unlock the record?

[chinthan_yajamaan]

You can try adding nested for loops with empty steps in javascript. Like

for (var i=0; i< 100000; i++){

     for(varj=0; j< 100000; j++){

          //Just waiting

     }

}

[shane_kelly2]

thanks Chinthan - we were thinking of trying that too...any idea how long a 100,000 step loop takes to run?

[chinthan_yajamaan]

You can check time at beginning and end of loop to see the total time taken.

eg:

var start = (new Date()).getTime();

......

var end= (new Date()).getTime();

total = (end-start)/1000

[shane_kelly2]

when I try this - i get the same 'javascript error'

[chinthan_yajamaan]

can you check the console or provide your javascript code?

[sushant_priyadarshi]

any reason for not using settimeout??

Edit fiddle - JSFiddle

[Former Member]

I am not sure if the execution will still goes to the next bock in the script button before timeout. Nice to try out anyway.

Dong

[shane_kelly2]

we're not sure why - but every javascript command we put in our script causes it to fail...

but we found another way... we added a step to jump to a different transaction and then jump back to the original transaction - this took just enough time for the background job to complete

[tamas_hoznek]

You could call a webRFC which waits before passing control back to the script.

[shane_kelly2]

can you use the JavaScript sleep(5); command?  or does the JavaScript option only allow for arg calculations?

[tamas_hoznek]

I never tried that but it should work... give it a shot