Delay
The Delay Node allows you to pause the execution of a workflow either for a specific duration or until a specific time.
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The Delay Node allows you to pause the execution of a workflow either for a specific duration or until a specific time.
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What it does: The Delay node pauses the execution of your workflow either for a fixed amount of time or until a specific date and time. It allows you to control the timing between steps in your automation. You can configure it to delay in seconds, minutes, hours, or set a precise date/time to resume.
When to use it? Use the Delay node when you need to create a time gap between actions, such as waiting before sending a follow-up message, delaying a retry attempt, or ensuring a condition has time to change. It's especially useful for throttling requests, waiting for asynchronous processes to complete, or scheduling future execution.
Pause the workflow for a specified duration.
Options:
Seconds:
Min: 5 seconds
Max: 60 seconds
Minutes:
Min: 1 minute
Max: 60 minutes
Hours
Min: 1 hour
Max: 24 hours
Example:
To delay the next step by 30 minutes:
Type: Delay for
Delayed for: Minutes
Value: 30
Pause the workflow until a specific date and time.
When the user selects the Delay until option, they must choose both a Date and a Time.
Time must be selected in hourly intervals, based on full-hour blocks: 00:00
, 01:00
, 02:00
, ..., up to 23:00
.
Date selection is limited as follows:
Past dates are not allowed.
Future dates are allowed up to the end of the next day (T0 + 1 day at 23:00), based on the current date.
Validation rules:
Minimum selectable time: The next full hour from the current time (rounded up to the nearest hour).
Maximum selectable time: The end of the next day (23:00 of T0 + 1 day).
Any date-time outside this range (either in the past or beyond the allowed future window) must be disabled in the selector.
Example:
To delay until June 3rd, 2025 at 08:00 AM:
Type: Delay until
Value: Choose the date and time from the date-time picker.