Delay

Description

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.

A - Delay for

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

B - Delay until

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.