Comments on: Use SharePoint Designer to Email Daily Task Reminders

By: SharePoint Designer 2007 Workflows: Beginners Guide « farhanfaiz’s Weblog – SharePoint / MOSS

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:17:38 +0000

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links for 2010-05-27 « Jet Grrl — Fri, 28 May 2010 00:34:28 +0000

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By: javiersantana

javiersantana — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:35:51 +0000

Hi guys,
Im using a similar workflow, the problem is that every time we update the task, an emal is sent, with the following task has been updated, plus the email with daily reminder, i think this is due to the list is a task list, is there any way to change or configure automatic email that sharepoint sents?

tks in advance

By: Task reminders workflow « Confessions of a SharePoint Addict

Task reminders workflow « Confessions of a SharePoint Addict — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:00:33 +0000

[...] So, I set out to find options and discovered this article The Dog Ate My Task – Use SharePoint Reminder to E-mail Daily Task Reminders. [...]

By: Spinal333

Spinal333 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:14:28 +0000

Interesting… one question…

Say a human edits the task in question, but doesn't set the status to Complete… Doesn't this start a second instance of the same workflow “loop”, hence sending 2 emails every 24 hours? (i.e. one for the workflow that was started on creation of the item and one on human edit)

By: Debra Talley

Debra Talley — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:42:13 +0000

Paul, I'm a newby and I'm attempting to create an auto-increment workflow to a custom list that contains unique log numbers. I found a site from some time ago that maps out the steps but I know I'm missing something. When I test the workflow, the list says that there is an error in the workflow. Can you give me more information. Here is the url to the item I am attempting to use. http://splittingshares.wordpress.com/2008/04/11...

By: JohnXO

JohnXO — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:40:27 +0000

I would like to make a slight correction.
On the workflow step “Send Initial Email”, you stated that you 1) send the reminder email, then 2) set FirstEmailReminderSent to Yes. Next, 3) you pause for one day, and then prepare to loop by 4) “poking” the task by changing any field.
Well I think you already made your “poking” in step 2 by setting FirstEmailReminderSent to Yes. I'm not sure what the impact on the workflow logic is, but I thought I'd let you know for accuracy.

JohnXO

By: Bhadram

Bhadram — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:03:25 +0000

Hey there's a problem at stet 3. Its should be If FirstEmailReminderSent equals Yes (and) Status not equals Completed should be used as condition. If this is not used even though the task has been completed we get email after that. So i think u should update that.For rest its the best i have seen ever.

Thanks.

By: Creating While Loops in SharePoint Designer Workflows using Statefule Workflows – Part 2 « Nick Grattan’s SharePoint Blog

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:41:08 +0000

[...] An alternative to our solution for while loops in SharePoint Designer workflows have been previously proposed based on setting a workflow to start when an item is changed. This gets over the problem of how to get a workflow to restart itself (which we do with the “Restart This Workflow” action). You can find a description of how to do this here: http://sharepointmagazine.net/technical/development/the-dog-ate-my-task-use-sharepoint-designer-to-e... [...]

By: rbarath23

rbarath23 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:55:08 +0000

And also i had the same problem that my work flow works for only 2 mails and then when i change the status to completed my workflow didnt respond to the changes.

The changes work only when the pausing completes and it doesnt respond whatsoever for any change in any field unless i manually terminate the workflow.

This method worked fine before December and its not working with anybody after that..

Just let me know if am right or wrong.