Node-red - Workitem add node - nextrun

[Lazaro_Sarradell]

Hi Allan & Community!

I am trying to add workitem to a queue using Node-Red and I’m seeing this error below:

I tried to find within your tutorials and other topics and I couldn’t find the way of setting the “nextrun” parameter.

Could you let me know which the steps are, please?

Thanks in advance!

[Allan_Zimmermann]

I remember seeing this error, before and creating a fix, but i cannot remember where and what it was.
Can you please show or share the workflow you have that gave this error ?

[Lazaro_Sarradell]

Thanks for your reply, Allan.
This error occurs when I try to “Add Workitem” using Node-Red’s “Add Workitem” node and setting “msg.nextrun”:

After running this flow I saw that Workitems are created without “Next run” field.
The error “ServerError: wi.nextrun.getTime is not a function” also appears when I try to add a workitem using OpenRPA but in that case the workitem is created properly.

Could you tell me how to set the “msg.nextrun” properly?

Thanks!
Lazaro

[Allan_Zimmermann]

Hey, someone was nice and send me an email reminding me where i saw this error before.
The issue back then was a combination of an issue with my nodered nodes and something inside openflow.
But this error turned out to be a bug in my code, when parsing dates from a grpc message
I have rebuild the openflow and nodered images, so please pull fresh version.

If you are not using app.openiap.io then please update your openflow using docker-compose pull ( if you are using my docker repo there should be a normal-pull.sh / normal-pull.bat file )

And to update nodered, simply stop, and re start it to force it to update to latest image

[rjvanschoonhove]

@Lazaro_Sarradell

Could you tell me how to set the “msg.nextrun” properly?

This will Pop the item from the queue not earlier than 10 minutes from now

var x = 10; 
var inXTime = new Date();
inXTime.setMinutes(inXTime.getMinutes() + x);
msg.nextrun = inXTime.toISOString();

[Lazaro_Sarradell]

Allan, rjvanschoonhove,

Thanks to both of you! It worked completely as expected!
Thanks for your time and dedication!

Great automations!
Lazaro