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Set Delay Time in Power Automate Desktop

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Posted on by Abdul_Rahman3

I done the web automation flow, it take 2 sec to load the initial page,so the overall flow is collapsed, that's why I need to delay the each steps to 2s. During the debugging it working, but when i saved & run in the main screen the delay was reset back to 100 MS. How to set the delay time.

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kostasc Microsoft Employee on at

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You can't set a "Run delay" from the Console. It will always run as quickly as possible. What you could do is add a wait inside your code.

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Abdul_Rahman3 2 on at

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Thank You for your quick response.

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vas 5 on at

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Hi! is there a way to set the "Wait" to 500 milliseconds? It seems you can only set it in full seconds
0.5 doesn't seem to work for
Thank you

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MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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Use a the built in Wait option inside a useless 'Send mouse click':
It seems as though processing the action itself takes roughly 0.2 seconds, so I set the Wait of the click to 300/1000 of a second.

I put two of these back to back, and my timer Play/Pause button was at the coordinates listed:
So, if it takes .2 to process an action, you might have to play with it a little bit, but I would start with a 100 Wait here. That's 200/1000 to process the mouse click action + 100/1000 for the wait inside the mouse click action + 200/1000 to process the action you were trying to wait for.

Best of luck!

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vas 5 on at

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Thank you for the quick reply, it's a good work around I'll definitely give it a try

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PKoszka 2 on at

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This will not work if you clicking is not allowed that will be an issue. Not sure if there is any other way to handle this? As you've mentioned, wait only works on full seconds (where do you send feature request to change it to miliseconds?!). In my particular case I'm flicking between an old form which I'm trying to automate - when you 'tab' around sometimes needs to load data (event based) and there are particular cases/scenarios where I'd like to say, between these steps wait 500ms and here you can wait 750 and there 100. Any other solutions?

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