Document AddDays and AddHours date filters - #3326
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Includes a worked ServiceNow change-window example, and a warning that Octopus.Task.QueueTime is queue time rather than execution start, so a window derived from it starts counting down while the task is queued. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CI lints only changed files, so editing this page surfaces violations that already fail on main. Limited to what the linter actually reports: two misaligned tables, asterisk list markers, a hard tab, trailing whitespace, duplicate blank lines, and a missing blank line after a heading. Each table keeps its own separator style, so the diff stays close to what the rules require. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Documents the two new date filters added in OctopusDeploy/Octostache#124 which has gone out in 3.9.3
Raised from ticket 215987, who need a ServiceNow change window of
start + 2 hourscomputed entirely from Octopus variables.Changes
variable-filters.md—AddDaysandAddHoursrows in the date-filters table, plus an### AddDays and AddHourssection covering negative and fractional amounts, time-zone preservation, and the echo-on-bad-input behaviour.variable-substitutions.mdx— both added to the flat filter list.Worked example + caveat
The section ends with the ServiceNow change-window example, and a warning that
Octopus.Task.QueueTimeis queue time, not execution start — so a window derived from it starts counting down while the task is still queued. For an immediate deployment the two are interchangeable, but a task waiting behind another deployment or on a busy worker pool can fall outside its own implementation window before any steps run.The per-environment pattern in that callout scopes the whole expression rather than just the hour count, because a filter argument that is itself a variable can't be followed by another filter in the same chain (a pre-existing Octostache parser limitation, verified against
Format,AppendandTruncatetoo).🤖 Generated with Claude Code