Sometimes we need to find items modified in an interval of time. This example helps to develop a condition-checker task chain in a job to facilitate the demand.

In the UserVariable task, the olderthan_days and newerthan_days variables are to ease the adjustment of the job. Whenever there is a need to alter the interval, only these two variables have to be edited, every other aspect of the configuration can be left untouched. In this example, we are interested in items (files and folders) modified in the interval between 5 and 10 days ago.

Values/scripts for the variables:

olderthan: {add_start:{now}}-{math_start}{olderthan_days}*86400000{math_end}{add_end}
newerthan: {add_start:{now}}-{math_start}{newerthan_days}*86400000{math_end}{add_end}

The add_start and math_start CrushTask Functions are basically multiplying the days entered manually and extracting from the current time - the {now} variable -, both are in epoch time.

The Find task doesn't require significant adjustment but the Depth of the folder structure has to be considered and the task configured accordingly.

Jump tasks IMPORTANT: In both Jump tasks the "Make Jump act like if/else scenario passing all items" option must be set to off.

The first Jump checks if the modified date and time of the item is Greater Than Or Equals to {newerthan} variable's value (which in our case was 10 days). If the condition is True, it continues to the second Jump task. If False, ends the job.

The second Jump task verifies if the modified date and time of the item is Less Than or Equals to the value of {olderthan} variable, 5 days. If the condition is True, the job continues with the Copy task. If False, ends the job.