Oracle Workflow timeout issue ....

Hey Guys ,
Happy new year to you all.
I have a issue facing in in our custom oracle Workflow.
Here are details :
The workflow custom process has handled in such way that after five days of the notificaiton generation if its unattended then it will timeout
and its been looped to generate one more ( similar ) notificaiton to the same person. And this notification is set to NO timeout.
But the problem here is , when user try to open ( seocnd) notification , he get page can not dispaly error.
Can you please guide me , what could be the problem.
Regards
Raghu

Hi;
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