Delay by N milliseconds with Helper Functions API on New Email from Email API

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Delay by N milliseconds with the Helper Functions API

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Getting Started#

This integration creates a workflow with a Email trigger and Helper Functions action. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Select this integration
Configure the New Email trigger
1. Connect your Email account
Configure the Delay by N milliseconds action
1. Connect your Helper Functions account
2. Configure Number of milliseconds to delay workflow execution
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

Details#

This integration uses pre-built, source-available components from Pipedream's GitHub repo. These components are developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Trigger#

New Email on Email

Description:Get a unique address where you can send emails to trigger your workflow.

Version:0.0.1

Key:email-new-email

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Trigger Code#

import email from "../../email.app.mjs";

export default {
  name: "New Email",
  version: "0.0.1",
  key: "email-new-email",
  description: "Get a unique address where you can send emails to trigger your workflow.",
  props: {
    email,
  },
  type: "source",
  methods: {},
  async run() {},
};

Trigger Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Email	`email`	`app`	This component uses the Email app.

Trigger Authentication#

The Email API does not require authentication.

About Email#

Trigger workflows on new emails, and send emails to yourself as part of a Pipedream workflow.

Action#

Delay by N milliseconds on Helper Functions

Description:Delays the execution of your workflow for the specified number of milliseconds

Version:0.1.1

Key:helper_functions-delay

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Helper Functions Overview#

The Helper Functions app on Pipedream is a set of pre-built functions that streamline common tasks in your workflows. It acts like a Swiss Army knife for developers, providing essential tools such as format conversion, date manipulation, and text processing. By leveraging these functions, you can reduce the boilerplate code needed for routine operations, speeding up the development of intricate automations. The Helper Functions API can be a game changer when it comes to tasks like parsing dates in user-friendly formats, encoding and decoding data, or generating UUIDs, making them more efficient and less error-prone.

Action Code#

// legacy_hash_id: a_m8iXpW
import helper_functions from "../../helper_functions.app.mjs";

export default {
  key: "helper_functions-delay",
  name: "Delay by N milliseconds",
  description: "Delays the execution of your workflow for the specified number of milliseconds",
  version: "0.1.1",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    helper_functions,
    ms: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Number of milliseconds to delay workflow execution",
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, this.ms || 0));
    $.export("$summary", `Workflow successfully delayed for ${this.ms} ms`);
  },
};