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Time Parameters

The attributes under Time Parameters of Data Source API are -

  • Today Format
  • Yesterday Format
  • Rolling Time Format
  • Rolling Frequency
  • Time Offset Value

This parameters are needed when user does not have any means of retrieving data from a API with a given time window. Below are the cases where API architecture have shortfall in retrieving data

User needs to retrieve data between two time window. Example : From current timestamp to last 1 hour or last 15 minutes etc.

User needneeds to retrieve data from yesterday transaction only and the API does not provide any means to filter the yesterdayyesterday's transactions dynamically

User needneeds to retrieve the data from today transaction only and the API does not provide any means to filter the today's transactions dynamically

User needs to retrieve the data by adjusting the Time Zone with the dataset time based attributes like create_date, update_date, invoice_date, due_date etc.

 

Today Format-Format - A date format that returns the currenttoday's date. %Y-%m-%dT00:00:01Z

Yesterday Format-Format - A date format that returns previous days's date. %Y-%m-%dT00:00:01Z

Rolling Time Format-Format - A date format that returnsmatches with the date format of the date attribute which user needs to filter data based on time in UTC time zone.window.

Rolling Frequency-Frequency - Increases the time of UTC timezone by the entered value (Enter value in seconds).

Time Offset Value-Value - Decreases the time of UTC timezone by the entered value (Enter value in seconds).

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