Questions on app script execution time out

[james cui]

Hey folks,

I was writing an add-on to iterate drive files, but that could hit the maximal timeout allowed by the script (~5 minutes). I did some research online. There were smart folks to store application status into properties service and continue with a time based trigger. I tried to reuse the same method, but it turns out "add-on can use a time-driven trigger once per hour at most" (https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/triggers/installable#time-driven_triggers) I tried two methods, 1. create a trigger in the addon with ScriptApp.newTrigger("myfunc").timeBased().everyMinutes(5).create(), but this failed at the creation statement. 2. create a trigger with ScriptApp.newTrigger("myfunc").timeBased().after(1sec).create(), then delete the trigger in myfunc, and register again. It does not work as well. 

My question is how do you continue the work to overcome the 5 mins limit? 

Thanks James

[Andrew Roberts]

Interesting question! I can't think of an immediate answer, but could you do something with parallel processing using the HTML Service??

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[james cui]

Thanks Andrew for the pointer, It was an interesting read. 

CardService was used in my addon, which might be hard to use this method?

Also, I saw many folks used triggers to overcome the time limit but all these 

failed in my experiments. Do you know whether the 1 hour limit is a new enforcement 

from google?  

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[Andrew Roberts]

The one hour limit has been around for a while.

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[derik carvalho]

and how do you use this 1 hour run? here when I run a script the time expires in 6 minutes