Hello. Is there a way to delay a column running in Clay? Ideally I'd like to do this within Clay without the need for webhooks and extracting data externally and pushing it back etc in order to create a 'fake' delay. In this use case I am running email validation. On "grey listed" emails it is usually advisable to re-run validation. If an email is greylisted, it is only subject to a temporary block. A legitimate email will be resent by the remote server, causing it to be moved from the greylist to the allowlist and delivered to the intended recipient on the second try. However on testing I'm seeing that if you run the second attempt immediately it will usually return a greylisted result again. There should be a slight delay. My table is working perfectly but unless I get a slight delay on the second attempt I'm getting grey listed for the majority instead of the correct result. TIA
Apologies - wrong channel! this should be in Support. my bad.
I used the AI code generator to add a delay and it has recommended the following.. will this work?
add x minutes to the record created time. Then add a condition where the current time is more than the calculated time.
Can confirm the above AI generated prompt to delay the conditional run breaks the table and it is unable to load.. so unfortunately that did not work.
Hey Amit S. - great to see you here. 🙂 Do you have some more details on how to do the above?
E.g. how do you "add x minutes to the record create time"?
Yep unfortunately we don't yet have access to this. and the timeout script produced by the AI prompt doesn;t work.. a pity..
I tried the setTimeout formula - but unfortunately it results in an error.
Hey, thanks for reaching out! We don’t currently have a way to add a “delay” between runs. This is something our team has been discussing and looking to implement soon, but there’s nothing concrete at the moment. You can try to build conditional logics that set certain columns to run based on whether outputs are or are not present in a reference column - here's how you can set this up: I hope this was helpful. If there's anything else I can assist you with, please let me know!
thanks Bruno R. and appreciate the response. Good to know the product team are considering as I think it would be a great addition to the tool I already have the conditional logic in place to only run the action based on outputs of a reference column. E.g. in my example if the output = "greylisted". But this runs instantly as soon as the reference column has processed. Ideally, we have the option to delay the run.. Interestingly, when I used the AI code generator it provided a recommended script. However this resulted in an error. But it could help your dev team envisage how such a delay function might work.
Hey there Jonathan thanks for reaching out, and thank you for the detailed feedback as well definitely will let the team know bout just so they have a different viewpoint for this.
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