# Perspective: How to delay script run to close dock in x seconds

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**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [July 22, 2019, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-how-to-delay-script-run-to-close-dock-in-x-seconds/26741 "2019-07-22T03:54:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-how-to-delay-script-run-to-close-dock-in-x-seconds/26741/10 "2019-07-22T17:15:53Z")

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Ah, I forgot this entire thread was about delaying the action!

What I would do is include the delay as part of the project script as an optional argument and just sleep that long before executing the rest of the script.

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