Velocity Script - to add 30 minutes in the Meeting time

[Chintandoshi25]

Hey,

I want to display Meeting StartTime and End time (Total Meeting time is 30 minutes) like Tuesday, May 18, 10:00 -- 10:30 am EDT

The field I am using is 'Appointment_Start_DateTime_Text__c' (DataType = Text).

The value of the 'Appointment_Start_DateTime_Text__c' is '05/03/2021 10:00:00 AM EDT'

#foreach($obj in $sorter.sort($Activity_Marketo__cList , "CreatedDate__c:desc"))
#set($Appointment_Start = $date.toDate("MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a", $obj.Appointment_Start_DateTime_Text__c))
#set($dateFormatted = $date.format("EEEE, MMM. dd", $Appointment_Start))
#set($salutationdate = $date.format("MMMM d", $Appointment_Start))
#set($dateFormattedHours = $date.format("hh:mm a", $Appointment_Start))
#set($FormattedStartDate = $date.format("EEEEE, MMMM d,", $Appointment_Start))
#set($FormattedStartTime = $date.format("h:mm", $Appointment_Start))
## EndTime ##
#set($FormattedEndTime1 = $Appointment_Start.calendar)
#set($FormattedEndTime = $FormattedEndTime1.add(12,30))
## EndTime ##
#set($AMPM = $date.format("a", $Appointment_Start))
## TimeZone ##
#set ($Appointment = "$obj.Appointment_Start_DateTime_Text__c")
#set ($stringLength = $obj.Appointment_Start_DateTime_Text__c.length() - 0)
#set ($AppointmentTimeZone = $Appointment.substring(23,$stringLength))
## TimZone ##
$FormattedStartDate $FormattedStartTime -- $FormattedEndTime $AMPM.toLowerCase() $AppointmentTimeZone
#break
#end

The Output is --> Monday, May 3, 10:00 -- $FormattedEndTime am EDT

Can any one help me ASAP what is wrong in the EndTime script.

Thanks in advanced!

[SanfordWhiteman]

A number of guesses make your code pretty hard to interpret — you're calling methods and accessing properties that simply don't exist.

Every time you do that, Java throws a fatal error.  Velocity isn't showing you the errors (because it's being polite) but if you check the return value you'll see it's null.

For example:

• Date objects don't have an add method.
• Date objects don't have a calendar property.

Guesswork just... won't work. 🙂

To add time to a Calendar object, you use Calendar.add. An example is in the section "PROMO EXPIRES 7 DAYS FROM TODAY" in this post: https://blog.teknkl.com/velocity-days-and-weeks/.

Also, what you're doing with time zones concerns me a lot; it's far too fragile to put in production code. When a Date-Like String contains a time zone, you should parse the Time Zone (code z/Z in a SimpleDateFormat) as part of creating the real Date object, using the built-in parser. Don't just split the string.

[Chintandoshi25]

Hey @SanfordWhiteman  Thanks for the response 🙂

I am able to fetch the End time using the below script:

## EndTime ##
#set( $myCal = $convert.toCalendar($Appointment_Start))
$myCal.add(12,30)
#set($FormattedEndTime =  $date.format("h:mm",  $myCal.time))
## EndTime ##

Regarding the TimeZone, I will received multiple timezone as per the different Meetings of people. So if I will try to fetch through DateFormat it will convert into Marketo default CST/CDT timezone.

And I want to use the same Meeting TimeZone which I received for each records in the email as well not the converted CST/CDT or any specific timezone. Due to that reason I have split the String from the Text field.