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title: "Clock channel"
slug: "clock-channel"
updated: 2026-04-30T20:15:47Z
published: 2026-04-30T20:15:47Z
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# Clock channel

The built-in Clock channel will pause a pipeline. You can use this to pause while a result is created from a previous step.

## Steps

| Type | Name | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Timers |  |  |
| Action | Pause | Pauses the pipeline for a minimum of the specified time, up to a maximum of 30 minutes. |

## Use cases

In this case we are using Clock to help when we are creating a parent by importing a child. We use a Pause between each record that triggers parent creation to avoid creating more parents than necessary. In our example, a CSV file has three records associated with the same parent. We use the clock to pause the trigger on records two and three to allow the first record to create the parent.