I want to delay when submission-created function runs

[uberannie]

Hi, is there a way to delay when the submission-created function runs? For example if we wanted the function to run a few minutes AFTER the form submission has been received?

The reason being one of our integrations (Segment and Intercom) takes a few minutes for data to become available (creating a user and then trying to search for the user based on on form submission data). Because of the 10sec function execution limit putting a sleep in my function doesn’t work :S ideally I’d like the submission-created to run a few minutes (say 5??) after form submission event occurs.

Any advice appreciated!

[jen]

Hmmmm… good question. I can’t think of a super straightforward way to do that, so my next thought is: does the function running have to be tied to the submission time at all? If you can process/use the data later, maybe Netlify’s public API would be useful:

Netlify

Let us know what you think or if you’ve thought of something better in the meantime!

[uberannie]

Thanks for your response! It’s on the backburner for now as we’ve had to implement logic in one place (vs two) so there is no longer a need to delay running code (for now…)