Trying to create a 6 second delay VBScript

[jackson41]

Hi I'm trying to create a 6 second delay (in VBScript) before moving a job into the next folder.
My Code:

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 Function jobArrived(s, job)

	job.log 2, "sleeping for 6 seconds..."
	WScript.Sleep 6000
	job.log 2, "6 seconds up"
	job.sendToSingle(job.getPath())

 End Function

I have no idea why it's not working.

[loicaigon]

Hi,

Is it the forum discarding your parenthesis or the syntax not needing them ? I am a JS man, not a VB one but looking at some doc, it seems they are needed :

WScript.Sleep

Suspend the execution of the current script for the specified number of milliseconds.

Syntax
WScript.Sleep lngTime

Arguments:
lngTime is the delay in milliseconds
Sleep is a wscript method.
Example

WScript.Sleep(5000)
WScript.Echo("5 seconds have passed.")

http://ss64.com/vb/sleep.html

[jackson41]

I tried that and nothing.. for VBS you don't need the () but thanks anyway

[loicaigon]

By the way, why would you choose scripting over Hold job configurator ?

[jackson41]

We have 10 jobs coming in all of the same time. I thought the hold configurator would hold all jobs for a period of time then pass it on to the next folder. So if all 10 jobs came in at the same time then they would be passed through to the next folder at the same time. I need to create a 10 second internal / gap between each job even if they arrive at the same time.

[loicaigon]

Hi,

It might be a bad configuration of the script within Switch Scripter. What are the log messages ?
Do all of them appear ? Have you noticed any error message ?

Coudl you try javascript like this (almost identical):

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function jobArrived( s : Switch, job : Job )
{
	
	s.sleep(6);
	job.sendToSingle(job.getPath());
}

[lombert]

We have 10 jobs coming in all of the same time. I thought the hold configurator would hold all jobs for a period of time then pass it on to the next folder. So if all 10 jobs came in at the same time then they would be passed through to the next folder at the same time. I need to create a 10 second internal / gap between each job even if they arrive at the same time.

You have "Space jobs apart" with unit "Seconds/Minutes/Hour/Day" in the Hold configurator.

You find it in the outgoing connection in the botom.

[jackson41]

We have 10 jobs coming in all of the same time. I thought the hold configurator would hold all jobs for a period of time then pass it on to the next folder. So if all 10 jobs came in at the same time then they would be passed through to the next folder at the same time. I need to create a 10 second internal / gap between each job even if they arrive at the same time.

You have "Space jobs apart" with unit "Seconds/Minutes/Hour/Day" in the Hold configurator.

You find it in the outgoing connection in the botom.

thank you I didn't realise that there were extra properties when you clicked on the arrow.