Delay

Delay

Type: delay  ·  Package: Core Activities v1.0.0

Pause execution for the indicated time (in milliseconds) and then continue with the next activity. It serves to give a system time to react: for a page to finish loading, for an application to open a window, for a file to finish being written.

Use it as a last resort

A fixed wait is fragile: if you set 2 seconds and the system takes 3 one day, the bot fails; if you put 10 “just in case”, you make it slow. Whenever you can, prefer to wait for a condition (for an item to appear, for a file to exist) rather than a fixed time. For web, use Page Wait For; to retry something unstable, use Retry. Reserve Delay for short, deliberate pauses.

How it works

Upon reaching the activity, the flow stops exactly for the indicated milliseconds and then continues. Remember the equivalence: 1000 ms = 1 second.

Required parameters

Parameter	Editor	Description
milliseconds	number	Tiempo de espera en milisegundos. Ej: 1500 = 1,5 segundos.

Optional parameters

Ninguno.

Example

Wait half a second between two actions to avoid saturating a slow system:

Page Click   selector = "#guardar"
Delay        milliseconds = 500
Page Click   selector = "#confirmar"

You want to wait…	milliseconds
Medio segundo	500
1 segundo	1000
5 segundos	5000
1 minuto	60000

Related activities

• Retry — retry an unstable action instead of waiting blindly.
• While — actively wait until a condition is met.