Wait

Overview

In programming, a wait state is a situation where a program waits for the occurrence or completion of some condition or event before resuming activity. For example, an application that communicated with another program might send that program a message and goes into a wait state until it is reawakened by a message back from the other program.

Because the result of a wait can largely impact task execution, many Automate Desktop activities have their own built-in wait capabilities. In addition to the built-in wait function, a number of individual Wait activities are also available which can  be used at any point inside a task without the need to write code. These activities provide additional intelligence to Automate Desktop already powerful task flow capabilities by allowing execution to pause until a specific date/time, until the existence (or non-existence) of a file or window, wait for a process to start, or end or wait for a specific amount of time.  

Available activities

Click the associated link for more details regarding each activity.

Activity	Description
Wait - For duration	Pauses task execution at the current step for a specific amount of time.
Wait - For file	Suspends task execution at the current step until the specified files exist, no longer exists or is modified.
Wait - For pixel	Causes task execution to suspend at the current step until the specified file exists, no longer exists or is modified.
Wait - For pointer	Causes task execution to suspend at the current line until the mouse pointer matches or differs from the specified cursor type.
Wait - For process	Causes task execution to suspend at the current line until the specified process starts or ends.
Wait - For window	Causes task execution to suspend at the current line until the appearance or disappearance of a window
Wait - Until date/time	Suspends task execution at the current step until the specified date/time.