# Link Call with dynamic timeout duration
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/link-call-with-dynamic-timeout-duration/94289
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [1 January 2025 13:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/link-call-with-dynamic-timeout-duration/94289 "2025-01-01T13:53:16Z")
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### Author:  [@theArcher73](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/theArcher73)
#### Post date: [1 January 2025 13:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/link-call-with-dynamic-timeout-duration/94289/1 "2025-01-01T13:53:16Z")
I I am looking for a way to address a link call node using dynamic timeout times.
In other words, that I can specify a value msg.timeout and this is used? Unfortunately, I haven't found a way at the moment, so I'm using a switch node as a workaround, which links to different link call nodes with a fixed timeout duration depending on the msg.timeout value.
This works, but is not really pretty.....
Have I overlooked something that could be solved more elegantly?
S.
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### Author:  [@gregorius](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gregorius)
#### Post date: [1 January 2025 14:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/link-call-with-dynamic-timeout-duration/94289/2 "2025-01-01T14:10:01Z")
Looking at the [code](https://github.com/node-red/node-red/blob/1e8f840993052b16427e2556545fe6ea40a409d1/packages/node_modules/%40node-red/nodes/core/common/60-link.js#L189-L192) for the link call node, no it's not possible to set a dynamic timeout.
But that could be "fixed" by doing something like this (warning: pseudo code):
```auto
...
}, !isNaN(parseFloat(msg.timeout)) || timeout)
```
at around [here](https://github.com/node-red/node-red/blob/1e8f840993052b16427e2556545fe6ea40a409d1/packages/node_modules/%40node-red/nodes/core/common/60-link.js#L235-L241).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2 March 2025 14:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/link-call-with-dynamic-timeout-duration/94289/3 "2025-03-02T14:10:57Z")
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