I've been working on a NWC form and workflow this week that has lots of submissions. We found an issue where we run into queing for the actions to complete with lots of submissions.
We wanted to capture the datetime the form was submitted but are not able to.
The datetime for a when a workflow is initiated is not available in the workflow designer.
Consider this: if I have a form which has a date control for date and time called 'formdate'.
That has a default value of datenow(). This records the datetime when the form is opened.
I cannot use a form rule or submit rule to update this control on submit.
In the workflow designer when I insert a variable I have the 'formdate' in the 'start event' variable category.
'Context' gives current date/time and as well as workflow instance ID, etc.
'Start event context' supplies workflow initiator (if an authenticated form).
As actions can be delayed (ie use of context: current datetime on an action) it would be great to have the datetime for when the workflow was initiated as a start event context. This would be the most accurate approximation of the submit time of the form.
In instances in the dashboard and a workflow instance has the date initiated visible this is just making that datetimestamp available for use in the workflow.
I've added this as a uservoice suggestion to request the feature.
Thanks,
Gavin
