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Run Zap during business hours only?

  • 10 February 2021
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I’ve read the articles and did my best to follow along...but I think I saw the word javascript and Zap Meta Human and I’m lost!! 

 

I need help or need to hire someone to set up a zap that delays actions until we open at 9am and then stops all action at 5pm.  Monday - Friday.


And as an added bonus...we get applications in from every timezone.  I’d prefer the action continue per that persons time zone.  (But that is not essential)

 

Right now I have 5 zaps coming from the same source.  We would have to copy and paste into each one, or I’d have to reroute my five into one zap.  Whichever works. 

 

 

Hi @LaurieAllen, 
How many of these events do you expect to happen? There is a workaround with LookupTable’s that is easier to understand than the code but it would add 6 steps (tasks) to the original Zap (both if they run, or delay). Would this be a problem?

The set-up would be:

  1. Trigger
  2. Date Formatter
  3. Splitter (get the day of the week and the hour separate)
  4. LookupTable to calculate delay in days (Saturday & Sunday)
  5. LookupTable to calculate delay for the hours
  6. Add outcomes of 4 and 5 
  7. Delay for (use the output of 6)
  8. Your actions

@LaurieAllen, scrap that idea from me above - I just realised it won’t work as easily as I thought given the fact you sometimes on Friday want to delay for a few hours (in the morning), not at all (during the working day), or more than 48 hours (after 5pm). Step 4 if my suggestion above would go wrong. Sorry for that!

 

On another note, you said you have 5 Zaps coming from the same source, would it be an idea to have one “Master Zap” that triggers the other 5 with Webhooks?

For anyone who find this thread, I just wanted to follow up here to share a link to a handy article that covers how to delay Zap actions to run during business hours only - without the need for any complicated code steps! :)

 


 

 

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