Deadlines are an optional feature that is not enabled by default.
Deadlines allow you to set a deadline for job completion that is not related to the planned start time.
For example, you may have a job with a 5:00 Friday deadline, but the dispatcher can still plan for it to start at any time during the week.
The website allows users to specify a deadline duration in the template, for example an emergency water main job may automatically get a deadline that is 3 hours after the job create time to meet the customer's SLA for this type of job.
If you are creating jobs via the API and you need to set a deadline, you set a specific date and time rather than a duration.
The following example sets a job deadline of Dec 31 2019 at 5pm.
<complete_deadline>2019-12-31T17:00:00+13:00</complete_deadline>Note: The +13:00 at the end of the time means that we are operating in a time zone that is 13 hours ahead of UTC, so this deadline is "local time".