Timer Control Powerapps

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

i have a timer control which allows it to function on a start and a stop button. 
Start button basically starts the timer and stop button saves the timer value in hh:mm:ss in a sharepoint field and resets the timer.

here is the code below for it.

UpdateContext({timer: Text(Time(0, 0, Timer1.Value/1000), "[$-en-US]hh:mm:ss")});

 Now, the requirement is that every time the timer is started and stopped it should append to its previous value. 

so if my timer duration field has value of 00:00:05 seconds and i turned the timer on and off again and it captured 00:00:10 seconds the total time in the field should be 00:00:15 seconds. 
which means i basically want to add previous and current value and store it in the field, how do i do that?

[WarrenBelz · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Firstly you need to get rid of the Text as you cannot add anything to it.

Initiate a Variable - you can do this when you start the timer - call it whatever you want

UpdateContext({vTimer:0})

Timer stops

UpdateContext({vTimer: vTimer+Timer1.Value})

each time it will add to the value stored there

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[Anonymous]

@WarrenBelz i tried your approach and it worked fine, however the below code sets the variable value to 0 and thus it looses the value stored before. i have just used to addition code and it worked fine.

UpdateContext({vTimer:0})

[WarrenBelz]

Hi@Anonymous ,

You only use that code once a the start (I thought I had said that in my post) - it simply initiates the Variable.

The other code will then do what you need.

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[WarrenBelz]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Just checking if you got the result you were looking for on this thread. Happy to help further if not.

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