Throttling Processing / Thread.sleep() equivalent

[brianscott]

Hello Alterxy Users! 

I've got a freebie license with an external vendor that will give me data back in .xml format that I need to consume daily.  Unfortunately, because I'm on this extra cheap, freebie license one of the restrictions in place is N requests per minute.  I was testing a bigger data set and wound up getting a warning email; i.e., 'you tried to submit 20 requests in under a minute, your license is suspended until tomorrow.'  OK. Whatever.

So, do I have any options to tell Alterxy to throttle down processing somewhere along the loop; i.e., make a request every N seconds?  It would help me out a lot.

Thanks!

brian

[ChadM · Accepted solution]

Hi Brian, have you tried the Throttle Tool yet?  It can be found under the Laboratory category right now, and will allow you to specify a limit to the number of records processed per minute. 

[brianscott]

BEAUTIFUL!

Thanks, this is exactly what I needed.