Jrocks - If I add a sleep node with a wait time...
If I add a sleep node with a wait time of 1 year, does this mean it will use up 1 year of execution hours?
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@Jrocks, 1 year of wait time isn't ideal at all, could you please share your usecase for this? The hard timeout for a workflow's execution is 5 minutes, it will stop after it.
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@Jrocks, 1 year of wait time isn't ideal at all, could you please share your usecase for this? The hard timeout for a workflow's execution is 5 minutes, it will stop after it.
Automation for Birthday events. Monthly follow up and etc. So it does count as execution hours?
So If I were to create a workflow with a node that has a 5-day wait (sleep), would that use 120 hours of my execution time for just one run?
yes, it is counted in execution hours.
Use Schedule Cron instead - https://docs.buildship.com/trigger-nodes/scheduled-cron
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Thanks for this @Gaurav Chadha . The cron job works, but a simple wait node would be a better solution for many of my use cases, especially for adjusting wait times dynamically. It’s a bit of a letdown to learn that a sleep node, which is just paused and not processing anything, counts toward execution hours. Being on the expert plan means a few workflow runs with a 5-day sleep node would use all my hours in an instance. I hope the BuildShip team can revisit this and consider making changes.
It's not the end of the world, but I just wanted to give this feedback.
I would love to hear @Harini's thoughts on this too 🙂
Hey @Jrocks sleep for 5 days doesn’t sound like an ideal setup - typically in workflows you wait for a few seconds or minutes to aggregate responses if needed.
As Gaurav suggested - revisiting the logic of your workflow to use a scheduled cron instead would be better choice here. Lets chat on a call here to further understand your usecase and figure out best solution https://cal.com/shams
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