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Waiting until Run completes to start a new one

  • 24 December 2023
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Hello,

 

We created a form that will trigger an axiom browser automation to check some data on a website and then return it in a google sheet which will perform a calculation and return it to the original person who submitted the form. This axiom web scraping automation takes roughly 2 minutes to complete. 

The problem is if we have 2 people submit the form at the same time or very close times together it will not work for  the first person since the second persons submission will overwrite the data of the first persons submission. 

Is there a way to force the Zap triggers to wait to trigger until the first Zap run has run to 100% completion? We have tried using a delay so we can time it to wait 2 minutes between triggers but this did not work.

Any assistance is appreciated!


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Hi there @AutomationNation,

Welcome to the Community! 🎉

You mentioned that you already used Delay by Zapier for this, but have you tried setting the delay for more than 2 minutes? Or you can use Delay after queue action for this issue.

You can read more about Delay after queue here: https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496288754829-Add-delays-to-Zaps#h_01H919TAHMM9MFFP2TSK03W1TB

Hopefully, this helps.

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