Help with arcade language

Question

Hello guys,

i´m very new to arcade language so i trying to build a timer with a dinamic starting and ending time:

So i got this so far:

var dataini = Now();

var stat = "Closed";

if (stat == "Closed") {return dataini};

var datafim = 1;

So what i need is that my timer stops counting once my "stat" varaible is equal to "Closed".

I also need to grab that exact time an make it my "datafim" variable.

Hope you guys can help me... Thanks a lot in advance.

Greetings from Portugal

MarcosCampos · Answer

Hi again Johannes,

Thanks for the reply, i got that far myself, my problem was on to turn that returned value my other varaible ("datafim"). Can i do: " return dataini as var datafim"?

Thanks again, have a nice day.

JohannesLindner · Answer

Ah, I misunderstood your original question.

So you want to calculate a field "datafim" based on the fields "dataoccr" and "stat"? You can do that by using this expression in the CalculateField tool or in an Attribute Rule:

// Calulation Attribute Rule
// or Calculate Field
// on field "datafim"

var dataini = $feature.dataoccr  // read the dataoccr field of the current feature
if($feature.stat == "Closed") {  // if the value of field "stat" is "Closed"
    return dataini
}
return null  // $feature.stat != "Closed"

MarcosCampos · Answer

Hello Johannes,

First of all thanks for your quick reply. According to my research this will be possible. The first thing that im having problems is that i have only one date/hour field and i have to use only that field to retrieve 2 variables. My starting date/time and my end date/time. In Python that would look similar this:

#dataocrr is my data/time field name
# stat is my field that i will use to a conditional formatting so to speek
#datafim is my end data/time field name

dataini = dataocrr - #simple right?

When stat == "Closed":
     return dataini as datafim

How can i do this in arcade!? Is it possible?

Have a nice day, and thanks again.