Waiting tasks

This is a recipe that will make you wait for it...

Getting ready

We need a new workflow and time!

How to do it...

There are two different kinds of wait tasks, tasks that wait for a duration and tasks that wait for a specific date and time until they proceed.

Creating a help task

We need to create an action to help us track time. It will just log the current date and time. The action already exists in the action folder com.packtpub.Orchestrator-Cookbook2ndEdition.helpers:

1. Create a new action and call it getNow. There is no need to define any in- or out-parameters.

2. In the script section, place the following script:

         var current = new Date(); 
         System.log(current); 
   

Using the Sleep task

1. Create a new workflow.

2. Drag a Sleep task onto the schema and create the sleepTime in-parameter as input for the workflow.

3. Add the getNow action we have just created before and after the Sleep task.

4. When running the workflow, check the log. You will notice how the workflow will wait for the...