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About Wait Steps

Wait steps allow you to suspend process execution for a specific period of time or until a specific event occurs. Workflow administrators can specify to pause a process instance in units of seconds, minutes, hours, or days. In addition, administrators can specify a service calendar to account for business hours and days when waiting a specified duration.

If a workflow process includes a wait step, by default it is persisted.

The main parts of creating a wait step for a workflow process are:

• Defining a Wait Step