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Wait Activity in Recipe Function

sudheer-ambati — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 17:11:59 GMT

Hello Team,

Can we add wait activity in recipe function? Actually, I have a requirement to extract accounts from salesforce using bulk API v2. I have triggered the bulk API v2 and once it completes, I have to download the results and write to SFTP.

Here, I am using a for loop to check for the status of bulk data job and wait for sometime until it gets completed.

Thanks & Regards,

Sudheer

Re: Wait Activity in Recipe Function

ahanumantharaya — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 20:54:55 GMT

Hi Sudheer,
You can have wait action for this here is the link with detailed explanation https://www.workato.com/product-hub/make-waiting-simple-with-wait-actions/

Thanks.

Re: Wait Activity in Recipe Function

sudheer-ambati — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 07:09:11 GMT

Thanks for your reply!

I already went through this. The actual problem that I am facing is, when I trigger the recipe function, it is stopping at the wait and isn't moving forward even after the defined wait is over. It is in halted state until I cancel the job manually.

Have you encountered similar issue earlier?

Thanks & Regards,

Sudheer

Re: Wait Activity in Recipe Function

ahanumantharaya — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 03:14:13 GMT

Sudheer, can you post screenshot please?
Can you also make sure that wait time is correct?

Re: Wait Activity in Recipe Function

prashantrai — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:42:25 GMT

I am facing the same issue. I did use the Scheduler Action and added a wait time of around 60 seconds.

The job seemed to be stuck after the first loop.

I waited for an hour, kept it at the backend; When I checked again it was still running and stuck at that step.

I had to cancel it in the end.

Re: Wait Activity in Recipe Function

steven-marissen — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 09:12:14 GMT

Hi Sudheer,

From my experience, I've never had to use a wait function together with Salesforce bulk actions.

When I ran the job it would remain at that task (and in the background, I'm guessing it perform checks whether SF completed the work) and would only progress when results arrived.

But it could perfectly be that things have changed in that time.

I also vaguely remember that when using test recipe / function for bulk action, that it would never return results and would process for hours. But it worked when I started the recipe.

Re: Wait Activity in Recipe Function

mppowe — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 20:00:14 GMT

Sudheer, this may be a longshot, but I recall when I first tried out the Bulk Api v2 actions in the Salesforce connector (I was doing a Create), it automatically waited for me. When the job executed, it would hit that step, and it would automatically wait until the import was complete before proceeding in the recipe. It was confusing to me b/c the doc didn't say it would do that, so it took me a bit to realize what was happening.

So it might be worth trying it out (if you haven't already) and see if it's already waiting for the export to finish before it hits the next step.

Re: Wait Activity in Recipe Function

gibson-cabello — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 01:17:33 GMT

Hi Sudheer,

If you have wait and bulk/batch actions on your recipe, you need to make sure that the recipe is running (STARTED) so the actions will be executed properly.

Wait and bulk/batch actions are considered long actions. Long actions require dedicated Workers to periodically check if the action is complete. This is not available in TEST mode.

For more info, you can check our documentation here.

Thank you!