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Multiple Step Action Delay

Hi All,

I have a step in a command driven SFC that has multiple actions inside it A1 to A10, what I am trying to achieve is a 15 second delay between each action as I have shown below.

I have thought about adding an extra action between each one to delay for 15 seconds but I was wondering if there is an easier way using the Delay Qualifier or the Time Limited qualifier?

Action A1 completes

Wait 15 secs (would be good if I could use a parameter to define this wait time)

Action A2 completes

Wait 15 secs

Action A3 completes

Wait 15 secs

and so on and so on, any help would be greatly appreciated.

GaryL

• 29 Mar 2019 2:12 PM
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• Brian Atkinson

  

  • 29 Mar 2019 2:22 PM

  If you don't need to wait on the prior action to be complete and just want 15 seconds between each action firing, you could use the step time of the step to set delays for A2 to A10

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• Matt Stoner

  

  • 29 Mar 2019 2:24 PM

  Save the Current step time into a parameter in the action and on the confirm wait for the current step time to be >= Parameter used + 15.
  
  Expression:
  '^/TIME_SAVE.CV' := 'STEPNAME/TIME.CV';
  
  Confirm:
  ('STEPNAME/TIME.CV' >= ('^/TIME_SAVE.CV' + 15))

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• GaryL

  

  • 29 Mar 2019 3:31 PM

  Brian/Matt, thank you so much its working a treat... :)

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• Erik Berry-Sellers

  

  • 30 Aug 2019 4:53 PM

  In reply to Brian Atkinson:

  Hi Brian - I have a similar question except I need to wait on the prior action to be complete before kicking off a 5-second delay. Is there an easier way to do this rather than inserting a separate action?

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• Matt Stoner

  

  • 30 Aug 2019 5:26 PM

  In reply to Erik Berry-Sellers:

  You will need to add a separate action to achieve this functionality as you would need to save the time after the previous action was complete.

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