Set deadline according to factory calendar

Hi workflow experts,
I have 3 questions regarding deadline monitoring.
1. Is it possible to use bussiness days from factory calendar instead of calendar days for workitem deadline ?
2. Is there a FB for changing the deadline of a workitem ? I found only SAP_WAPI_GET_DEADLINES for reading the deadline.
3. what is the simplest way of repeating the modeled action ( in my case send a reminder mail) for overdue workitems every day after they got overdued ?
best regards
Kerstin

Hi guys,
thank you. Seems nobody uses the built-in deadline handling because of its poorness ?
I have a simple task:
- monitor the deadlines of all user decision steps in my workflow ( based on working days)
- send a reminder email after the deadline is reached to the actor
- send an email every working day to the same actor until the workitem status is COMPLETED.
I would like to do this without a lot of additional modeling.
In sdn there are some other suggestions for repeated escalation to the same actor:
- delete the workitem and recreate it with new creation date to achieve a repeated escalation action triggred by workflow engine
User Decision - Deadline monitoring - Obsolete workitem
In How to Create General UWL Notifications the deprecated SWW_WI_CREATE is used where the LATEST_END_DATE is an import parameted.
I'm still not sure which is a simple and robust solution - may be I will use the deprecated FM too if there is no alternative.
regards
Kerstin

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