Create a Process Wait for a Specified Time

Set Time Screen

Good to Know

• In most text fields, you can use process data variables as an alternative to literal data values.

How to Start

1. On the Organizer, do one of these:
   • Open a process.
   • Create a process.
2. Do one of these:
   • Add an activity:
     1. In the Process Builder, in the Activity Library, open the Common tab.
     2. On the Common tab, drag the Timer activity onto your process.
   • Change an activity:
     1. In your process, double-click your activity.

Procedure

1. On the Set Time screen, do one of these:
   • To pause a process for a specified interval of time, complete these fields as necessary.

     Field Name	Definition
     Time Period	Function: Indicates that the process is delayed for a specified span of time before moving to the next activity. Accepted Values: Selected - The delay expires based on a timed duration. Deselected - The delay expires based on a date. Default Value: Selected
     Time	Function: Specifies the time for your delay using a number of time units. Accepted Values: A number of minutes, hours, days, seconds, or weeks. Default Value: 1 Day Accepts Process Data Variables: No
     My Organization's Business Time	Function: Determines whether the time span represents actual time, or business hours only. Accepted Values: Deselected - The time span represents actual time. It is unaffected by any business time configuration settings. Selected - The time span represents a span of business hours only. For example, 5 days of business time might be equivalent to 7 days of actual time. 8 hours of business time might be equivalent to 24 hours of actual time. Default Value: Deselected Example: The Business Time property is set to True, and business hours are configured as 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. A Manual activity with a Time Span of 6 business hours is entered at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, then the task must be completed by 2 p.m. on Wednesday.

   • To pause a process until a specified date, complete these fields as necessary.

     Field Name	Definition
     Specific Date	Function: Indicates that a process is delayed until a specified date occurs before moving to the next activity. Accepted Values: Deselected - The delay expires based on a timed duration. Selected - The delay expires based on a date. Default Value: Deselected
     Date	Function: Specifies the date the delay ends, and the process goes to the next activity in the process. Accepted Values: A process data variable that contains the date value. Default Value: None Accepts Process Data Variables: Yes

RelatedTopics

• Timer activity
• Process Data Variables