Description

Reads a timer without stopping it. Populates a variable with the elapsed time of the timer session using the indicated scale. Used in conjunction with the Start Timer and Stop Timer steps to get an interim reading from a timer session that was started in an earlier step. This action records the elapsed time in a variable, but does not stop the timer.  

Declaration

<AMREADTIMER SESSION="Text" RESULTVARIABLE="Text" SCALE="Text" />

Example

<AMREADTIMER SESSION="TimerSession2" RESULTVARIABLE="VariableName2" SCALE="Milliseconds" />

General Tab Parameters

Timer name: Specifies the name of the timer session established by the Start Timer action. This allows several timers to be running simultaneously.

Text, Optional - Default "TimerSession1"
MARKUP: SESSION="TimerSession2"

Populate variable with elapsed time: Specifies the variable to populate with the timer reading.

Text, Required
MARKUP: RESULTVARIABLE="VariableName"

Time scale: Specifies the scale to be used in calculating the time. Options are: hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds.

Text, Optional - Default "seconds"
MARKUP: SCALE="Minutes"