Periodical Timer buggy

[Forcefighter]

1) Variables cannot be used
2) Variable-Names would have to be extremely short, as explained below.



When you try to use a global variable in order to set a "periodical timer" (in the IF-Clause i.e. trigger) of a flow,
you can only use 21 characters in total (for specifying timer-timeout).

==> 21 chars - 2 for "{}" + 1 prefix ("m" for minutes, "s" for seconds, etc.)
==> This only leaves you with 18 characters for the name of your global variable

But since a global variable always starts with "global", this even reduces your actual variable-name to the length to only 12 characters, which is pretty absurd for a useful global unique identifier.

Would be great if you could fix this! =)

[Martin]

Hi,

The trigger Periodic Timer does not support variables. Please use trigger Global Variable Date/Time if you want to trigger a flow based on the time stored in a variable. You can also use this trigger to create periodic events when the global variable is incremented with the amount of time to wait.

Regards,
Martin