Notifications not going to the contact person

Question

Hello Friends,
Scenario - When i create an RFI Customer activity in a CSR and set its status to 'Requested Customer'', a notification (more information is required) goes to the contact person and the team lead of CRO (Customer Responsible Organization). If the customer does not reply for 3 days (in case of a High Severity CSR) or 7 days (in case of severities other than High), then reminder notifications (more information required - reminder) get triggered which go to the contact person and the team leads of CRO.
Problem - In the first case,the notification (more information is required) goes to the contact person and the team lead of CRO (Customer Responsible Organization) where as in the second  case, the reminder notifications do not go to the contact person, but they go to the team leads of CRO.
Analysis - There are 2 workflows that get triggered when the  RFI Customer activity in a CSR and set its status to 'Requested Customer''. The first one sends the notification  (more information is required) to the contact person and team leads of CRO immediately. The other workflow checks whether the customer has replied for 3 days (in case of a High Severity CSR) or 7 days (in case of severities other than High), and then sends the notification to the contact person and team leads of the CRO. I have checked the bindings, tasks, receiver rules and the methods in both these workflows. They are exactly similar. The only difference in these workflows is the wait step added in the second workflow.
Do you have any clue as to what is the reason behind the second workflow not sending the notifications to the contact person ?
Appreciate your help and timely response.
Thanks
Prashant

Answer 1

Hello Rick,
Thank you for your response. Here are the answers to your queries -
Question -->Is a mail being sent to the same email address in both workflows with SendMail, and only working in one of them?
Answer --> Yes
Question -->There must be some other difference other than the wait step.
Answer --> The difference between the 2 workflows is mentioned step by step as below -
Workflow for which the notifications are sent to the contact person and team lead of CRO
Step 1 --> Condition step whether the email address exists or not.
If No --> Sends a mail to the LDA (Local Database Administrator) to maintain the email address of the contact person
If Yes --> Goto Step 2
Step 2 --> Condition step whether the Severity of the CSR is High or not
If Yes --> Send step (to send the email notifications to the contact person and team lead of CRO)
If No --> Send step (to send the email notifications to the contact person and team lead of CRO)
Workflow for which the notifications are not sent to the contact person and team lead of CRO
Step 1 --> Condition step whether the email address exists or not.
If No --> Sends a mail to the LDA (Local Database Administrator) to maintain the email address of the contact person
If Yes --> Goto Step 2
Step 2 --> Condition step whether the Severity of the CSR is High or not
If High - Wait Step (waits for 3 days before sending the notifications to the contact person and team lead of CRO)
If Other - Wait Step (waits for 7 days before sending the notifications to the contact person and team lead of CRO)
Step 3 --> Condition step to check the CSR Status (to check whether the customer has replied or not)
If Yes(customer replied) --> End workflow
If No (customer has not replied)--> Send step (to send the email notifications to the contact person and team lead of CRO)
Question -->How have you implemented the wait step? Does it fetch the address before or after the wait?
Answer --> The email address is fetched at the very first step.
Question -->What happens if you make a test workflow with just the Sendmail step and send to the same address?
Answer --> The notification goes to the same email address.
Kindly let me know if the information that i have provided is comprehensive enough. Your help will be deeply appreciated.
Thanks
Prashant