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• a specific date

• a given day of the month

• a given day of the week

• a period of time after this activity is encountered

Note: You must run a background engine for deferred activities to determine when the wait time has passed. The background engine then completes the Wait activity so that the process can continue. See: Setting Up Background Engines, Oracle Workflow Administrator's Guide.

Activity Attributes

• Wait Mode--use this attribute to specify how to calculate the wait. You can choose one of the following wait modes:

• Absolute Date--to pause the activity until the date specified in the Absolute Date activity attribute is reached.

• Relative Time--to pause the activity until the number of days specified in the Relative Time activity attribute passes.

• Day of Month--to pause the activity until a specified day of the month, as indicated in the Day of Month activity attribute.

• Day of Week--to pause the activity until a specified day of the week, as indicated in the Day of Week activity attribute.

• Absolute Date--If Wait Mode is set to Absolute Date, enter an absolute date.

• Relative Time--If Wait Mode is set to Relative Time, enter a relative time expressed in <days>.<fraction of days>. For example, enter 0.5 for a wait time of half a day (12 hours).

• Day of Month--If Wait Mode is set to Day of Month, choose a day of the month from the list. If the day you choose has already passed in the current month, then the activity waits until that day in the following month.

• Day of Week--If Wait Mode is set to Day of Week, choose a day of the week from the list. If the day you choose has already passed in the current week, then the activity waits until that day in the following week.

• Time of Day--The Wait activity always pauses until midnight of the time specified, unless you use this Time of Day activity attribute to specify a time other than midnight that the Wait activity should pause until.