Regarding workflow jumps

Question

Hi All,
We have workflow scenario like this
1.Each step has a workflow approval limit for 5 days.If within 5 days the specified reviewer doesn't approve .Then mail will be notified to the respective reviewers and manager as well.
For this we in the update event we have created a jump called
<$if parseDate(wfCurrentGet("lastEntryTs")) < dateCurrent(-5)$>
<$wfSet("wfJumpName", "LateApproval")$>
<$wfSet("wfJumpTargetStep",
"NotifyAuthor@ApprovalPeriodExpired")$>
<$wfSet("wfJumpReturnStep", wfCurrentStep(0))$>
<$wfSet("wfJumpEntryNotifyOff", "0")$>
<$endif$>
Now my doubt is when this script is evaluated and jumps to the ApprovalPeriodExpired and notified the respective users and if it comes back to the current step ,will the state of the step is preserved or will the step be restarted.
Lets say test,test1 are reviewers for StepA and test has approved but waiting at test1 ,but when it jumps returened will the pending reviewer would be test1 or both test,test1(as it entered again into the step

Answer 1

will the state of the step is preserved or will the step be restarted.By default, it will be "restarted". A step has no "state", it has just a few variables.
I think what you are looking for is to notify only users that had not approved the item before it was escalated to the manager. This is achievable, but you will have to put some extra logic yourself:
a) do not base the notification lists on hardcoded values, but use a token (http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17904_01/doc.1111/e10978/c05_workflows.htm#CIHBBCJC)
b) use Exit (on the previous step), Entry and Update to modify your token properly. Also, take a look at the function wfComputeStepUserList, which can help you to get the list of remaining approvers at any time
Alternatively, take a look if subworkflows and wfExit cannot do the work for you, too.