Postpone Workflow Execution

Hi !
I'd like to know if there is any way to postpone the workflow execution after the event is triggered.
We have a scenario that the process will trigger an event and based on a specific date (informed by the user) the workflow must wait before execute the necessary tasks.
Is there some way to postpone the workflow execution after the event is triggered ?
<u>Example:</u> the event is triggered at Oct 15, and the workflow must wait until Oct 22 to execute the tasks.
Thanks for the attention!
Kind Regards!

Hi Alex
I agree totally with KK this forum is not all about points and moderators are intervening to get rid of requests for points from the posts. ABAP forum is one where this is happening.
Coming to your response below, you say
>>>>'Cause in my case there are no dialog steps and by the end an e-mail is sent to the user.
If you only need to send an email after some delay, I suggest you write a program to do this. It can then be scheduled as a periodic background job that can look back at documents entered, may be, 7 days ago; and then generate emails for those. If the volume of your documents is high then the solution you are trying to implement would put undue strain on the system. Please weigh the pros and cons before going ahead.
If you can explain in more detail what you are trying to achieve then someone can suggest a better solution.

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