Pause for

Pauses the workflow at this step and delays it for a defined period of time.

Parameters are evaluated when the action is executed, with times calculated in UTC. If the resulting delay period is shorter than the frequency of the Workflow timer job, or if it is a negative value, then the action executes at the next iteration of the Workflow timer job. For more information about SharePoint timer jobs, see the Microsoft article Timer job reference​.

Options within this action 

By default, the delay period will be set to 5 minutes.

Set the delay period

  • Years
  • Months
  • Days
  • Hours
  • Minutes (defaulted to 5)

Manually enter values or use Insert reference for dynamic values.

Set the Business hours only option to ignore non-business hours when counting down.

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