From within the action editor authors can change the allotted time for an action to run. This is useful when creating actions that run on a large number of records or for actions which perform a lot of other sub-actions during its process. By default the time limit is set for 120 sections (2 minutes) and can be set up to 3600 seconds (1 hour). If an action hits the time limit, the user who runs the action will get an 'exceeded execution time limit' message.

If you see this you can change the action timeout limit through the following steps.

1. Check the Edit checkbox to enter Author Mode and open up the action editor for your action.
2. Double click on the Green downward pointing arrow icon under the Input variable (in this example the Input is the Tasks collection) on the action canvas to bring up the Execution Time Limit properties dialog.
   
   
3. The default value for the Execution Time Limit is 120, enter a new value and hit Ok to save the changes.
   

   

You have now changed the execution time limit for an action. Remember that if you are calling this action from another action, you need to also increase the allotted time limit for the parent action. For example, if Action A calls Action B and you increase the time limit for Action B to 5 minutes when you run Action A the action will still time out after the default 2 minutes even though if it is running through Action B during its process.