"Wait for condition" question

[mbarkemeyer]

My Bot executes on a data change event.
Within my first step in my process I am looking to use the “Wait for a condition”.
I am trying to have the system wait a certain amount of time before executing the next step.
The expression I am using does not seem to work.
TIMENOW() - Time([Timestamp]) = “000:30:00”
How do I write an expression that waits 30 min before going to the next step?

[Markus_Malessa]

Per responses from Appsheet Team members in this thread

Processes - Steps: "Wait for a condition" TIME expression AppSheet Automation

Hello, I have created a time condition for a step “Wait for a condition”. Normally, the formula compares the time NOW with the time the last row was created. After 1 minute, the expression should be TRUE and the next step should be triggered . I have used this kind of condition as action filter in behavior field before and it worked good, but in automation seems not to be working. I have tested it in the expression builder and it gave me the value I was expecting. MINUTE(TIMENOW()-TIME(LOOKUP…

This is not yet supported.

[mbarkemeyer]

Thank you for your response!

[Zhifeng_Lin]

Hi,

We are planning to release a new feature on the wait step where you can simply wait a period of time.

The new Wait step type allows the process to pause execution and before resuming:

• [Wait for a condition] to evaluate to TRUE or a timeout period to be reached
  And here you can add steps in case the timeout period has be reached
• [Wait for a period of time]
  
  

Note: Process execution will not resume at the exact time that time period is met. There may be a delay of up to 10 minutes. Therefore, the Wait step does not support use cases where accurate timing is required.

Would you be interested in getting early access? If yes, just let me know your appsheet user id.

Thanks!