During standby processing, you can wait for the processing of a business process for a specified period of time or until a specified time is reached.

The following figure shows the flow of standby processing in a business process.

Figure 3-10 Flow of standby processing in a business process

Use the wait activity for standby processing.

Use the XPath expression to specify the standby interval or standby expiration time. The XPath expression is evaluated during processing of the business process, and the character string obtained as a result of evaluation is used as the standby time.