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For a variety of reasons, a form administrator may want a routing trigger's actions to occur at a specific time or after a certain amount of time has elapsed. This kind of action, officially known as a timed routing action, can be useful in many scenarios, such as:

• Moving a form response to an archival phase after it has remained in a data collection or review phase for a certain amount of time.
• Moving a form response to an archival phase if it has not been reviewed by a specific date.
• Sending an email to the form response's current responsible party, reminding them to complete their review/data entry if the response has sat in a phase for a certain amount of time.

In order to set up a trigger as a timed routing trigger, first navigate to the desired routing trigger's settings page, or create a new routing trigger. For more information on how to accomplish this, visit ATLAS FormBuilder - Adding and Editing Routing Triggers. 

Once on your trigger's settings page, locate the Trigger Properties section at the top of the page. The Trigger evalulation time field in this section controls when the routing trigger's conditions are evaluated.

Two of the available options for this field will cause the trigger to become a timed routing trigger. They are as follows:

• After the form response has matched the Trigger Condition for a given length of time
  
  Allows the designation of a span of time by inputting a number and a choice of time unit -- from minutes, hours, days, or weeks. With this setting active, the trigger's routing actions will be set off after the trigger conditions are met continuously for the designated span of time. If the conditions are broken before the length of time has elapsed, the trigger's "timer" will stop, resetting to the beginning and re-starting itself once the conditions are met again.
  
  
  
  
• At a specific date/time
  
  Allows the choice of a specific date on which the trigger's routing actions should occur, OR how much time (minutes, hours, days, or weeks) before or after a specific date that the trigger's routing actions should occur -- if the trigger conditions are met.
  
  
  
  The chosen date may either be explicitly specified, or selected from any of the form's available date-based fields.
  
  
  
  

After desired evaluation time has been selected, and the timed routing trigger has been modified to your liking, make sure to scroll to the bottom of the page and click the green Save button to save your changes.

Unlike routing triggers that evaluate when each form response is saved, timed routing triggers evaluate responses using a queue system. For information on how these queues operate, visit ATLAS FormBuilder - Timed Routing Trigger Queues.

IMPORTANT NOTE: As with all routing triggers, timed routing triggers will continue to execute if their conditions continue to be met. If there is concern about a timed trigger executing multiple times, it is important that a cap is placed on the number of times it can execute using the "Number of triggers per..." fields of its Properties settings. For more information on editing these fields and other routing trigger settings, visit ATLAS FormBuilder - Adding and Editing Routing Triggers.

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