Introduction

The Sleep Instruction is used to delay further processing in a workflow by a given amount of time.

• The instruction works on any supported platforms.
• The instruction can be suspended and can be resumed.

The feature is introduced with  JS-2149 - Getting issue details... STATUS

FEATURE AVAILABILITY STARTING FROM RELEASE 2.7.4

Workflow Instruction: Sleep

Download Workflow Example (upload .json): pdSleepFixed.workflow.json

Configuration View

The workflow implements:

• an initial job,
• a Sleep Instruction that will delay processing of further instructions by 15s,
• a final job.

The Sleep Instruction is displayed with the Configuration view like this:

Explanations:

• Duration: specifies the number of seconds to sleep.
  • A numeric value is expected either from a number or from a variable of numeric data type.
  • Fractions of seconds can be specified, for example a value 0.003 will wait for 3ms.
• Behavior with order state transitions:
  • If an order should be suspended, then the Sleep Instruction will continue until completion. After completion of the instruction the order will be suspended.
  • If the suspend/reset operation is applied (see JS-2152 - Getting issue details... STATUS ) then the Sleep Instruction will stop execution and will discard the remaining sleep duration.
  • The Sleep Instruction does not perform an order state transition, this means it cannot fail.

Execution View

The Sleep Instruction is displayed with the Workflows view like this:

• Orders meeting a Sleep Instruction will be moved to the waiting state.
• When hovering the mouse on the Order ID, more details will be presented including the time until the instruction will be executed.