Set a custome wait time - wait till next morning 09am - with advanced expression

[Taal]

Hi,

We get some events triggered at 4 am at night and we want to wait until the next day at 9 am until we send the e-mails. 

I saw that I could use the expression field for that, but I have no idea how to code it. I also couldn't really find it in the documentation. 

So I basically want what is already an example in the picture,  but instead of wait till the end of the day, I want to wait till the next morning. How can I do that? 

Thank you! 

[Anuhya-Y · Accepted solution]

@Taal 

Try setHours(toDateTimeOnly(toDateOnly(now())), 9)

Check out below links

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/journey-optimizer/using/orchestrate-journeys/about-journey-b...

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/journey-optimizer/using/orchestrate-journeys/building-advanc...

[Taal]

Hi,

Thank you! I will try that  

[ChrisA93]

does the 9 stand for 9am? If I wanted to do 7.30pm would it be 19:30??

[Taal]

Thank you again for your help! 

I have one additional question. I have a custom wait in the journey to wait till the chosen delivery date is there. That works, but sometimes customers go through the wait at midnight. So then the e-mail is sent at midnight.

Is there a way to check the time once a customer is through the wait and then wait till the next morning IF is it midnight? 

[vkt1989]

You Can set it like this in the custom Type of wait expression

toDateTimeOnly(setHours(nowWithDelta(1,"days"),9))

[Taal]

Thank you! I am going to try this

[Sukrity_Wadhwa]

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[Taal]

Hi! Thanks for your help so far. I do have one additional question. 

If the event is triggered at night, I want to wait till 9 am until the e-mail is sent. But if the event is triggered at 1 pm at day, the e-mail may be sent right away. I only want to prevent sending e-mails at midnight.