Wait For Download Tutorial x2

[dt_tools]

Continuing the discussion from Wait For Download Tutorial:

Hello,
I am in this situation, I have a Wait For Download element that inside contains a Click element to start the download, the download is done, but the worflow does not advance, is there something I am missing, am I making a mistake? I don’t understand very well how the Wait for Download works.

After downloading I have other steps, which fail if done before the download is finished.

Regards

[Anono_Nono]

What is your detector setup?

I’ve done a simple DownloadDetector and it seems to work as expected.

It waits for the download to complete, then you see it gets the path of downloaded item.

Try this, or else provide more details on your setup.

Cheers

[Morphyum]

There is no need to use any detectors, The wait for download activity works out of the box exactly how the screenshot in the first post shows. There is absolutely nothing he would have to setup otherwise.

@dt_tools are you sure that the click inside the Wait for Download starts the download? And not something before it? Also is it a very small file? In my experience if the download is to fast it can happen that the event takes to long to set up? I have no imperial evidence for this but that’s the onyl explanation i had for Wait for download failing in one of my workflows.

[dt_tools]

Attached a screenshot of my worflow, (it is related to this topic in which you both helped me continuing the discussion from For Each DataTable and download a file:

The worflow picks up a table and for each row it clicks on the title of the file to start the download, the problem is that it only starts downloading the first file, after that the workflow does not progress.

I can have files of different sizes, .pdf which takes 1 second or .zips of +10

Regards

[Morphyum]

Like i said before if you reach that point and the download actually starts, but it does not progress, then there is something wrong with the activity. I Had problems with it before that resolved itself somehow, maybe @Allan_Zimmermann might have a look at it again, my gut feeling, again no imperial proof is that a file that downloads to fast blocks the workflow because it waits forever. But again i could be completely wrong here and we just use the activity wrong.

[Allan_Zimmermann]

if that is the case, simply add a delay activity INSIDE the Wait for download but BEFORE the click that starts the download.