Workflows: compute Form deadline dynamically

[adamian (Andrei Damian Fekete)]

Thanks @sushantkulkarni for taking the time to come up with an answer. I thought also that going with an additional identity attribute would be the only option, if you don’t want to create an external HTTP API endpoint that receives the dates and delivers the answer.

Create a new identity attribute (this sucks, I know)

There should be a better way (but there isn’t).
SailPoint wants to have a minimal number of attributes, but many solutions imply having technical attributes for workarounds. Maybe the workflow engine could call a transform in the future. But even then, I’m not sure what you can subtract two dates and obtain the number of hours. Quickly glancing at Date Math | SailPoint Developer Community I don’t see this possibility.

In the end this is a moot point, as what the SailPoint UI offers is not supported by the workflow engine:

ISC: Workflows Form - can't use variable as deadline

SailPoint Support: I checked with the engineering team and here is what they have to say: Inline variable is not supported in deadline for forms. The form submission deadline is looking for an absolute value from 1-30 days or maximum of 30 days 720 hours. The Variable getting a validation error seems accurate as we would not be able to set a deadline that exceeds those documented maximums. I ask myself how this UI change passed the QA test.