SharePoint 2013 Workflow Email Reminder 3 month, 1 month, due date email reminders

Hello,
I am trying to create a list workflow in SharePoint Designer 2013.
Basically, there's a column called "Revision Date" that will trigger the workflow to send a 3 month (before), 1 month (before) and day of email reminder (based on the date entered in the column "Revision Date").
I step up the workflow using stages for the 3 month before, 1 month before and actual revision date.
Example, if I change the item's revision date to today (4/8/2014), it will trigger the last part of the workflow and send an email saying that the Procedure is due today (and logs in the history that "3 Month Reminder NOT Sent" and "1 Month
Reminder NOT Sent").
If I enter the item's revision date as 3 months before (ex. 7/8/2014), it will start the workflow and send an email saying that the Procedure is due in 3 months (and logs in the history "3 Month Reminder Sent" and waits for the 1 month reminder
date to push forward with the rest of the workflow...)
However, if I set the item's revision date to 1 month before (ex. 5/8/2014), it will send the 3 month reminder email then the 1 one reminder email. I can't get it to skip the sending of the 3 month email and use the "Else" is Stage: 3 Month-- <Wait
for 1 month date (Vairable:Date4) then log "3 Month Reminder NOT Sent">.
Any ideas on what I am missing to trigger the Stage: 1 Month without sending Stage: 3 Month first?

In case anyone is looking for the same information...
I was able to simply "fix" the workflow by adding a loop and a 30 day pause.
So the workflow will now "pause" until the variable date then send out the email reminder which then then repeat every 30 days until the actual revision date.
Seems to be working in test.
Thanks!

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According to your description, I try to reproduce your scenario in my SharePoint Server 2013 environment.
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http://www.sharepointviking.com/system-unauthorizedaccessexception-when-running-sharepoint-2013-workflows/
http://www.sharepointmaestra.com/Blog/Post/1/Workflow-2013-Not-Starting-on-Incoming-Email
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Is it supported to use shared mailboxes in SharePoint 2013 Workflows?

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realm=\"8de50181-fbf8-48a5-9cd6-5edb37403fbd\",client_id=\"00000003-0000-0ff1-ce00-000000000000\",trusted_issuers=\"00000005-0000-0000-c000-000000000000@*,[email protected]37403fbd\"","NTLM"],"X-Powered-By":["ASP.NET"],"MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices":["15.0.0.4569"],"X-Content-Type-Options":["nosniff"],"X-MS-InvokeApp":["1;
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What you can do is to change this to an InfoPath form and run the workflow that way, assuming there isn't anything you absolutely need Visual Studio for.
Andy Wessendorf SharePoint Developer II | Rackspace [email protected]

SharePoint 2013 workflow can not be completed

I use Visual studio 2013 to create an sharepoint 2013 workflow and just insert a single task into it. I fill the assignto property directly and the account does recieve the mail. Then I approve the created task but the workflow is still there and it can't
be completed after that. I have spend several days just try to make the workflow completed but I can't. Any clues?

Hi Kevin,
As I know, there's two properties for task - one is Status with values 'In Progress', 'Completed' etc. Another property is 'Task outcome' with values 'approved' and 'rejected'. Task created by SignleTask, wait for task completion which means status field
should have value 'Completed' and then workflow will consider the task as complete. In your case I'm not sure if you have set the task status as completed or not. If you set the task status to completed only then workflow will consider the task as completed.
However, in your case you can set the property 'WaitForTaskCompletion' to false and just after SignleTask you can use other activity like - wait for item event or wait for field change, to find out if the task out field is 'approved' or 'rejected'. You can
put the activity in a loop and in the loop you can wait till due date or until the task-outcome is approved/rejected.
Thanks,
Sohel Rana
http://ranaictiu-technicalblog.blogspot.com

Has any one worked on sharepoint 2013 workflows using visual studio.

Has any one worked with sharepoint 3013 workflows using visual studio.

Hi,
To develop SharePoint 2013 workflow using Visual Studio, you can refer to:
Develop SharePoint 2013 workflows using Visual Studio
Create a SharePoint workflow app using Visual Studio 2012
Get started with workflows in SharePoint 2013
Thanks,
Linda Li
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