Vista Imaging Vista Routing Values for Date/Time Properties, Send CR images to Kansas on Holidays

Routing User Guide Defining Routing Rules

Values for Date/Time Properties

When condition based on date and time is used, the supplied value must adhere to VA-FileMan conventions. Values for date/time conditions are presented as a range enclosed in braces { }.

The most frequently used date/time property is NOW. NOW can be used to select the times that a staff member will be present by specifying certain workdays and times of day.1

Send CR images to Kansas on Mon/Wed/Fri

send("KANSAS")

when MODALITY="CR"

NOW={MON 08:00AM to 17:00PM;

WED 08:00AM to 15:30PM;

FRI 08:00AM to 17:00PM}

Date/time properties can also be used to specify holidays. In this context, holidays are those days that are marked as such in the sending site’s HOLIDAY File (#40.5). A rule to send images on holidays only could be specified as:

Send CR images to Kansas on Holidays

send("KANSAS")

when MODALITY="CR"

NOW={HOL 00:01AM to 23:59PM}

Date/time ranges use a 24-hour clock. While the use of AM or PM indicators is not required they can be useful when the hours specified are 0:00 AM (midnight) and 12:00 PM (noon). Date/time ranges can be used to express date values from any century as well as time values for any second in the day.

When the routing software compares a date/time property in an image entry to a specified value, the date/time value is broken into components:

Day of week	Hour
Day of month	Minute
Month	Second
Year

Which of these components will be used in the actual comparison will depend on the specified value.

1The actual value of NOW is the moment when the rule is evaluated.

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