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LauraCarruthers
Qrew Member
4 years ago

duration between each status change

I have a field called status. It has 3 values: Not started, in progress, complete.  I'm trying to measure the duration between each status.  Is there a simple way to do this?

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Laura Carruthers
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5 Replies

  • Because your use case is very simple, then there may be a way to easily do this. I would suggest setting up an automation to populate a field called [Date Started] with the value in a formula date /time field you will create called called [Current date time] which has a formula of

    Now()

    When the Status changes to "In Progress".

    Similarly similarly fire another automation to populate a different date time field when the status changes to complete. 

    Then you can subtract those two fields to get the duration. 

    We will have to decide what to do about the messy situation if a user change the status from complete back to an earlier status.




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    • LauraCarruthers's avatar
      LauraCarruthers
      Qrew Member
      Thank you for your guidance!

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      • LauraCarruthers's avatar
        LauraCarruthers
        Qrew Member
        Ok, i feel really dumb but i cannot get this to work.  I created 3 new fields:
        • Date Started (Date/Time field type)
        • Date Completed (Date/Time field type)
        • Current date time (Formula date/time field time) – populated this with Now()
        Then setup the automation.  I took screenshots. What am i doing wrong??

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      MarkShnier__You
      Qrew Champion
      Does your Automation filer where the Record ID# is equal to the Record ID# of the Trigger record?  I cannot tel that from your screen shots

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      • LauraCarruthers's avatar
        LauraCarruthers
        Qrew Member
        This appeared to work!  thanks.

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