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Building Blocks & Utilities

Rate Limit and Wait for External Approval

When you run it, it demonstrates slowing down requests and pausing until an external approval link is clicked before continuing.

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What it does

## 1. Rate Limiting Sometimes you need to slow down how often you are contacting a service. In this example, Customer Datastore node simulates the big batches of requests coming at once, the SplitInBatches node handles each one individually in a loop, and the Wait node creates a 2 second delay between each message to a customer.

The steps

  1. On clicking 'execute'
  2. Create approval URL
  3. Wait for external approval
  4. Rest of the workflow placeholder
  5. Customer Datastore
  6. SplitInBatches
  7. Wait for time interval
  8. If - Are we Finished?
  9. Customer Messenger - Send URL to merchant
  10. Customer Messenger - Send message to client

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