Waiting Indefinitely for a Custom Signal

Use a Wait activity without a timeout to pause until custom application logic continues it.

Your Patient Onboarding workflow uses a Wait activity to pause until the new patient completes their profile by providing a date of birth and proof of insurance scan. If a Unified Task List “inbox” is not the kind of user experience you want for your end users, you can use the combination of a Wait activity and a later call to CONTINUE_ACTIVITY in the APEX_WORKFLOW package to craft a custom user experience. Notice that by not choosing a Timeout Type, you opt to wait indefinitely until your own application logic in another part of the application signals the waiting activity should continue.

Configuring an Activity to Wait Indefinitely

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