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Hello, can someone give me an example of how to save in a variable the real seconds that are passing please, I need it for a project.
Thank you very much for your time.
@momolopu
Are you saying you need the seconds from the current time?
But it would not be to show only the seconds of the current date. It would be a variable that would start from 0 and would increase by 1 for each second that passes.
Thank you very much for your time, you help me a lot.
Not fully sure what you are trying to achieve, but you can use Wait action to wait for 1 second and then increment variable by 1
Yes, if I do that and put an execution delay of 1 ms and put it in a loop I increase +1 to the variable every second.
But is there any way to make it do that without getting stuck in a loop?
That is to say that it goes counting the seconds while it continues doing other things?
I don't know if I have explained myself a little strange hehe
I think the only way to achieve this would be to set a variable for start_time in the spot in the bot where you want it to start, and then set another variable for end_time, and then compare
Yes, Ryule is right. Assuming you want the answer to "how long did this take", the only way is to grab the time into a start time variable, then when you're done, grab the time into an end time variable, subtract the start from the end, and you can do that in seconds, minutes, whatever. I use this exact method to time how long some flows take to write to a log file.
@momolopu, looks like you want to have a continuous running time that will keep on ticking every second WHILE the other PAD actions keep running.
Something like a DoEvents in VBA...which will continue the events while the program is running.
Doesn't seem to have a similar feature in PAD...the execution stops until that action is completed. You can play around and see if you can achieve the same.
@ryule @LogicSmith If that would be great for me, would you be so kind to give me an example, I am quite new to this program. Thank you very much.
If you want to know how long something takes, I can provide code for that (3 actions). If you want something to happen every second, Power Automate is not the tool for that. Sorry.
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