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Applies to:

  • Winshuttle Foundation

Wait plugin properties

The Wait plugin waits for a given period of time from the current time or until a specified absolute date.

The Wait plugin is primarily used to prevent timeouts in a workflow. The field for Service ID is the for the specific SVService that you would want to Wait. This is an optional field, so yes it will work fine if you don’t input any value.

Value Pair

Description

serviceidcolumn

The name of the SharePoint column into which to put the id of the newly created SVService entry. The Service ID is the name of the specific SVService that you want to Wait. This is an optional field.

until

Either a date to continue the process or a time span to start from the current date, using one of the following formats:

  • Time: 0.00:00:01 (i.e. days.hours:minutes:seconds).
  • Date and Time: MM-DD-YYYY HH:MM:SS

Example

  • serviceidcolumn – SendEmail
  • until – 5.08:08:08

The SendEmail plugin will wait for 5 days, 8 hours, 8 minutes, and 8 seconds until it continues.  The SVService ID will be placed in the column ServiceId.