Start Stopwatch

Starts a stopwatch or resumes a paused stopwatch.

Use this in conjunction with a Read Stopwatch action cell to measure the time taken (to the nearest one tenth of a second) for the script to progress from one point to the next. For example, to measure the time a caller spent listening to a prompt or the length of a transaction.

Properties

Option

Description

Stopwatch

Use the drop-down list to select an existing stopwatch that you want to restart from 0 seconds or that you want to resume from when it was paused by a Read Stopwatch action cell earlier in the script's flow.

Alternatively, use the button to create a new stopwatch for measuring time from this point in the script. The stopwatch name must:

Be unique within the script
Begin with a letter
Contain the characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and _ (underscore) only.
Not contain spaces.

Stopwatch Start Mode

Select 'Reset Stopwatch And Start' to start the selected stopwatch from 0 seconds.

Or, select 'Resume Stopwatch Without Reset', to resume the selected stopwatch.

Exit Point

Exit Point	Description
Complete	This is taken when the action cell has executed.