Wait Actions
Description: In programming, a wait state is a situation in which 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 then go into a wait state until it was "reawakened" by a message back from the other program.
Because the result of a wait can largely impact task execution, many activities have their own built-in wait capabilities. More importantly, encompasses a number of individual 'Wait' activities which can easily be used at any point inside a task without the need to write "code." These activities provide additional intelligence to 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
The list of activities for this action are arranged below in alphabetical order. For more information about a specific activity, click the associated link.
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Suspends task execution at the current step until the specified file(s) exist, no longer exists or has been modified. |
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Causes task execution to suspend at the current step until the specified file exists, no longer exists or has been modified. |
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Causes task execution to suspend at the current line until the mouse pointer matches or differs from the specified cursor type. |
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Causes task execution to suspend at the current line until the specified process starts or ends. |
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Causes task execution to suspend at the current line until the appearance or disappearance of a window |
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Suspends task execution at the current step until the specified date/time. |