formatDuration() | Decadis App Help Center

This function returns a text representing a time duration (in milliseconds), i.e. the difference between two date-time values, using the current user's language.

Bash

formatDuration(duration) #Output: Text

Examples

Parser expression	Description
Bash `formatDuration(2020-01-31 11:30 - 2020-01-30 00:00)`	This example returns: 1 day, 11 hours, 30 minutes (Given the user language is set to English.)
Bash `formatDuration(60000)`	This example returns: 1 minute (Given the user language is set to English.)
Bash `formatDuration({issue.resolutionDate} - {issue.created})`	This example returns the time between the creation and resolution of an issue.

Parser expression

Description

Bash

formatDuration(2020-01-31 11:30 - 2020-01-30 00:00)

This example returns:

1 day, 11 hours, 30 minutes

(Given the user language is set to English.)

Bash

formatDuration(60000)

This example returns:

1 minute

(Given the user language is set to English.)

Bash

formatDuration({issue.resolutionDate} - {issue.created})

This example returns the time between the creation and resolution of an issue.

Additional information

Parameters used in this function

Parameter	Input (data type)	Description
`duration`	number	A number representing a duration (in milliseconds) or the calculation of a duration.

Output

This function returns a text

This function is extremely helpful when you want to automatically calculate the duration in JWT calculated text fields.

If you prefer a more comprehensive representation, please see shortFormatDuration().

Function	Output
`shortFormatDuration()`	`1d 11h 30m`
`formatDuration()`	`1 day, 11 hours, 30 minutes`

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