# I would like to know if there is any way to establish a delay in the action editor

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**Created:** [December 7, 2021, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/i-would-like-to-know-if-there-is-any-way-to-establish-a-delay-in-the-action-editor/35655 "2021-12-07T21:03:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Juan\_Perez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/juan_perez/32/26552_2.png) [@Juan\_Perez](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Juan_Perez)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/i-would-like-to-know-if-there-is-any-way-to-establish-a-delay-in-the-action-editor/35655/1 "2021-12-07T21:03:52Z")

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Hi, I would like to know if there is any way to establish a delay in the action editor, in such a way that when sending information to a third party (whatsapp), it gives you time to send the data and then delete the sent data, since when I do the process of sending, and then cleaning, it seems that it deletes the sent data when I do it sequentially, that is, first I send the information, then I clear (clear value) in a set column values

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**Author:** ![nathanaelb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathanaelb/32/43079_2.png) [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 11:21pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/i-would-like-to-know-if-there-is-any-way-to-establish-a-delay-in-the-action-editor/35655/2 "2021-12-07T23:21:27Z")

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Have you had a look at the following thread?

> [@Wait Action](https://community.glideapps.com/t/wait-action/23794):
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> An action that I believe would be very useful would be a waiting action, this action exists in several types of programming, and they are very useful. Example: Wait 5 seconds to do an action.

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/i-would-like-to-know-if-there-is-any-way-to-establish-a-delay-in-the-action-editor/35655/3 "2021-12-08T02:45:00Z")

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Are you storing these values in user specific columns?  
An alternative approach would be to _not_ clear the values when the the message is sent, but instead clear them as part of the action that opens the form for collecting the data.