Set timeout action notification?

Does the “Set timeout action setting” include a notification for canceling the timeout? I don’t see it. Instead I attach the Timeout setting to an Alert action. Is that how it supposed to work?

I don’t really follow the question.

Each action (that can potentially take any time) has a timeout. the default timeout can vary a lot depending on the expectations for the action (so the timeout for Activate Application is a few seconds (20 I think) where as the default timeout for Pause Until is very large (99 hours I think).

You can adjust the timeout for the actions. I’ve added a bit more explicit control over timeouts and their behaviour and failures and their notifications for 7.0.

@peternlewis

You can adjust the timeout for the actions.

Hi, Peter. The default timeout time is 99 hours(OMG). Could I change the default to other time ?

The default timeout time varies from action to action. For many actions it is 99 hours because it is expected to wait for a completion.

Generally the only actions that have short timeouts are ones that are really expected to be completed more or less instantly (eg Copy).

Adjust as necessary.