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How to handle wait conditions in CoPilot Studio.

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Posted on by Rahman1005

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Hi Team,

Could you please let me know how to handle wait conditions CoPilot Studio for sending any message.

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Vinoth Selvam 1,590 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Rahman1005 ,

Copilot doesn’t have explicit "wait" or "delay" features.

You can leverage Power Automate in combination with Copilot Studio. Power Automate allows you to add a delay action, which can pause the flow for a specified time before sending the next message.

Trigger the flow from Copilot. Add the Delay action to pause the process for a certain amount of time (e.g., 5 seconds). After the delay, use the Post a message action or whatever step you need to do to send the next message to the user.

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Dana-Hasan 14 on at

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Hi Rahman1005

I noticed that the Microsoft documentation mentions you can implement a delay between messages using the "Send an Activity" node. However, when I tried it, the drop-down for the activity type didn’t show the Delay option.

But I agree with Vinoth—using a Power Automate flow as a workaround works!

Check this out for reference: Send an event or activity - Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Learn

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SaiRT14 1,990 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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interesting - what is your usecase i.e. why do you want to handle wait condition!?

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Vinoth Selvam 1,590 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi Dana-Hasan ,

Yes the delay option is not available now. Thats the reason we might need to go for Power automate as workaround.

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