Ability to introduce delays if bot has many messages to send to customer?

[ajay.putti (Ajay)]

The way it is done is to call a web-service which responds in x seconds. You can chain these service calls after or before message nodes.

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[yogaramya.mendu]

Please refer the following community post for further details:

Setting a time delay in message output

Hi Dan, We have checked with the endpoint https://httpbin.org/delay/3 as per your scenario. Please refer to the following images: [pic1] [pic2] We have invoked this dialog task on the onConnect event of the bot. We observe that the response from the bot is appropriate with the required time delay. Kindly re-check the end-point at your end. Also, regarding the feature to show the user that the bot is “typing”, we are checking with our team and will update you asap. Regards, Yoga Ramya.

Regards,
Yoga Ramya

[Subrahmanyam (Subrahmanyam Donepudi)]

If the developer configured botkit at the bot and the botkit is to subscribed to the event “on message”, the delay can induced from the bot kit itself using a timeout function based on the on_bot_message while sending the message to the platform using sdk.sendUserMessage.

[sharvari4810c (Sharvari Dongre)]

Could you please give any sample code of the botkit to add delay using on_bot_message?

[Subrahmanyam (Subrahmanyam Donepudi)]

@sharvari4810c, I believe you could use the setTimeout function to achieve this.
Is there any particular use case you have in mind to induce delay at each message?
If you were to induce delay only between consecutive message node, why not use a service node instead as we explained in the previous replies?

@ajay.putti @yogaramya.mendu FYI

[vignesh.s98 (Vignesh S)]

The setTimeout function is not working. can you please tell any other alternative or can you share a sample code on how to achieve delay in script node.