To create the workflows for these lists follow these steps:Ī. Create 1 item in the list and title it Delay From the Delay list add a custom Number column, call it “Counter”, set it’s number of decimal places to 0 and it’s default value to 1, finally add it to the default viewį. From the SharePoint site create a custom list, call it “Delay”Į. Create 1 item in the list and title it Endless Loopĭ. From the Loop list add a custom Number column, call it “Counter”, set it’s number of decimal places to 0 and it’s default value to 1, finally add it to the default viewĬ. From the SharePoint site create a custom list, call it “Endless Loop”ī. To create the lists follow these steps:Ī. For obvious reasons we will call the first list “Endless Loop” and the second list “Delay”. The first list will contain our Loop workflow, and the second list will contain our Delay workflow. Overview: To build a Workflow Timer we will need two SharePoint lists, and two SharePoint workflows.
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Update the item in the Loop workflow with the counter valueĤ. The logic for the Delay workflow looks like this:Ĭ. Update the item in the Delay workflow with the counter value
The logic for the Endless Loop workflow looks like this:Ī. Explanation: Essentially we will have two workflows, running on two separate lists one workflow, “Endless Loop”, creates an endless loop and the other workflow, “Delay”, one creates a delay or timer. However, once we have designed the mechanism to run a workflow every five minutes, it’s a simple matter of changing the pause delay to increase that to any duration needed.ģ. Now, given this is not a very realistic scenario, most users will want the workflow to run once a day, week, month, etc. Scenario: In our simple scenario we want our example workflow to run every five minutes. While SharePoint Designer does not provide an out of the box (OOTB) capability for creating workflow timers, still, there is a way to create a workflow timer using SPD workflows.Ģ.
As you may know a workflow timer will process workflows at a specified time or interval.
Introduction: Many times when designing workflows there is a need to use a Workflow Timer.
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