How to make a top-of-the-page "alert" that users can close themselves

[brad.h]

Ok, this is solved by scheduling another custom event to hide the item, rather than a pause in a WF.

How to delay a workflow from running until 5 seconds after page load?

The way to do this with delaying anything on the front-end is as follows: Add the actions you want delayed to a custom event Then, set a workflow to run on page load and have it run an action to “schedule a custom event” and set it to run with a delay of 5 or 10 seconds.