Actions: Delay Configuration (i.e. Sleep)

Key Dates

• Preview: March 2025

What is it

• You can now delay the execution of actions! For developers building with APIs that have asynchronous behavior (e.g. a “start job” endpoint and a “get job results” endpoint), you’ll be able to “sleep” the action for a period of time.

Features

• Delayed Execution - Delay the execution of your action
• Multiple Units of Time - Support for milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, & days
• Dynamic Sleep Periods - You can vary the sleep period based on your compound action’s data. (e.g. if your “start job” endpoint returns an estimated processing time, you can sleep for that duration).

Learn more in our documentation! Check out this “Reminder Plugin” below.

Compound Action

action:
  output_key: send_plaintext_chat_notification_result
  action_name: mw.send_plaintext_chat_notification
  delay_config:
    seconds: data.delay_in_seconds
  input_args:
    message: data.message
    user_record_id: data.recipient.record_id

Input Args

Chat Experience