delay

Updated on 23 May 2023

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delay Task Purpose

The delay task pauses a job for a specified number of seconds. Some jobs require a delay to allow for network convergence, database commits, or other external system processing.

Properties

Incoming Description

time (required) Specify the length of time in seconds to pause a job. Hover the cursor over the information icon to see a tool tip help message. The value can come from a job variable, a static value, or an earlier task's outgoing variable. If the reference task is a job variable or earlier task, the reference variable shows a dropdown of available variable names for selection. If the reference task is static, the reference variable becomes a text edit box where we can type the number of seconds to delay.

Incoming	Description
`time` (required)	Specify the length of time in seconds to pause a job. Hover the cursor over the information icon to see a tool tip help message. The value can come from a job variable, a static value, or an earlier task's outgoing variable. If the reference task is a job variable or earlier task, the reference variable shows a dropdown of available variable names for selection. If the reference task is static, the reference variable becomes a text edit box where we can type the number of seconds to delay.

Outgoing	Description
`time_in_milliseconds`	The delay task converts incoming variable `time` to milliseconds and assigns the value to outgoing variable `time_in_milliseconds`. You may create a job variable from `time_in_milliseconds`. The immutable outgoing variable `time_in_milliseconds` remains, and a new mutable job variable is created. When creating a job variable, provide a new name to avoid name conflicts and provide clarity.

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delay Task Purpose
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