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# Wait For Condition activity

# Wait For Condition activity {#ariaid-title1}

Release version: Brazil  
Updated September 10, 2026  
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## Summary of Wait For Condition activity

The Wait For Condition activity allows you to pause a playbook until a specified record's fields meet defined conditions.
This control is essential for orchestrating playbook workflows that depend on real-time data changes, ensuring that subsequent actions occur only when the correct criteria are satisfied.
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## Key Features

* **Role and Availability:** Available as a common activity for users with admin, playbook.admin, or pdauthor roles to add and configure within playbooks.
* **Input Configuration:** You can configure the activity's label and description for clarity in the playbook interface.
* **Run Condition:** Define conditions using data from prior activities to control when this activity runs, enhancing dynamic workflow control.
* **Start Rule:** Choose when the activity or stage starts, either at playbook initiation, stage start, or after specific stages or activities complete, allowing precise sequencing.
* **Start with Delay:** Optionally delay the start of the activity or stage, providing timing flexibility.
* **Record Reference and Table:** Specify the exact record and table that the playbook waits on, directly linking playbook progression to live record states.
* **Conditions Template:** Define the exact criteria that the record must meet for the playbook to proceed.
* **Advanced Inputs:** Enable a timeout to avoid indefinite waiting, specifying both duration and schedule to control how long the activity waits before marking itself as skipped.

## Practical Use for ServiceNow Customers

This activity empowers your playbooks to synchronize with real-world data changes, ensuring automated processes wait for necessary conditions before moving forward. By configuring precise start rules and conditions, you can model complex workflows that react dynamically to record updates. The timeout feature prevents playbooks from stalling indefinitely, maintaining operational efficiency.

Because this activity produces no outputs, its primary function is control flow management based on record state, making it a critical building block for responsive and resilient playbooks.  
Pause the playbook until a record has field values that match a set of
conditions.

## Roles and availability {#wait-for-condition-activity__section_pwq_rb5_kcb}

* This activity is available as a common activity. Users with the admin, playbook.admin, or pd_author can add this activity to a playbook.
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## Inputs {#wait-for-condition-activity__section_yb4_zq3_plb}

Open the activity properties panel and configure your activity to add values for the following inputs. If the input value varies, use the pill-picker to show where to get the value. To learn more about the pill-picker, see [Dot-walking examples](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=dot-walking-examples&version=brazil&pubname=brazil-platform-user-interface&ft:locale=en-US). {#wait-for-condition-activity__table_ajt_sr3_plb__entry__3}

| Input | Type | Description |
|-|-|-|
| Label | String | Title to display as activity and playbook card. |
| Description | String | Information to display about activity usage or outcome. |
| Run condition | Condition Builder | Conditions that must be met to run an activity or stage. You can use data from prior activities to build conditions. Note: Select Show additional options to see this field. |
| Start Rule | Choice | Under ScheduleStart Rule, select a start rule for when your stage should start running: * When process starts: Your stage starts running as soon as the playbook starts. * After specific stages: Your stage starts running after specified stage(s) have finished running. {#wait-for-condition-activity__ul_f4z_nq1_ppb}Under Schedule \> Start Rule, select a start rule for when your activity should start running: <!-- --> * When stage starts: Your activity starts running as soon as its stage starts running. Your stage starts running when your playbook is triggered. * After specific activities: Your activity starts running after specified activities have finished running. {#wait-for-condition-activity__ul_zzc_3ls_m1c} |
| Start with delay | True/False | Option to wait for a duration of time before running an activity or stage. When enabled, this input displays the [Start with delay input properties](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/opw9hwWqpKEjJM2nWbJE8g "Specify a duration of time to wait before running an activity or a stage whose start rule and conditions have been met. Give users time to act during automated playbooks. Give users time to wait for a specific date and time to complete actions."). Note: Select Show additional options to see this field. |
| Record | Reference | Reference to the record that pauses the playbook until conditions match. |
| Table | Table Name | Table containing the record to update. |
| Conditions | Template Value | Criteria that a record must meet for the playbook to continue. |
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## Advanced inputs {#wait-for-condition-activity__section_bgh_1r3_plb}

After configuring the required inputs for your activity, you can also choose to configure additional inputs. In the side panel, select Show additional options to display these advanced inputs. For more information, see [Activity experience](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/Ls~i4PA~qdO2CcO6dTkT3Q#activity-definitions__activity-experience). {#wait-for-condition-activity__table_cjj_sr3_plb__entry__3}

| Input | Type | Description |
|-|-|-|
| Enable timeout | Choice | Option to time out the Wait for Condition activity if the conditions aren't met after a specified Duration. |
| Duration | Date/Time | Amount of time to wait before the activity times out and its state is set to Skipped. This input requires setting the Enable timeout input. |
| Schedule | Choice | Schedule used to compute duration values. This input requires setting the Enable timeout input. |
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## Outputs {#wait-for-condition-activity__section_unx_fr3_plb}

The Wait for Condition activity has no outputs.

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