# Invoke every user defined time

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/invoke-every-user-defined-time/896>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [18 June 2018 19:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/invoke-every-user-defined-time/896 "2018-06-18T19:16:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![davidcgu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@davidcgu](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/davidcgu)\
**Post date:** [18 June 2018 19:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/invoke-every-user-defined-time/896/4 "2018-06-18T19:55:16Z")

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Take a look on the forum, I guess there is valuable information for what u wanted to achieve on this thread.

> [@The DELAY node. Not doing what I want](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/the-delay-node-not-doing-what-i-want/854/21):
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> Yes, and again: Thanks for the help. Ok, to re-cap: You did what I did in another case where you sent the value in the payload - given - but tagged the message with the topic. I was mistaken for a long time that it was actually msg.delay which is what the node wants. But you “cheated” and until the last second it was the topic and you moved the msg.topic -\> msg.delay() Got it. I am really wanting to get out of using the old context format, but so many of my nodes have that in them and so …

Regards

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