Wait Step in Workflow

Hi Workflow gurus,
I have 2 questions want to ask.
1. We have a wait step deadline monitoring in our workflow project. Let's say 30 day wait period. After 30 days workflow is getting triggered & everything works fine. But that is really required in Production. In Dev/QA systems we do not want to wait really 30 day. We want a small time period, let's say 1 day. Now what is the best way to handle this? Meaning Different time periods for different systems for the same workflow & same wait step period.
2. If a work item is waiting for a wait step to be completed(for ex waiting for 60 day wait period) before 60 day itself,
can we execute manually that work item using any std report?
Kindly help me.
Thanks,
Pandu.

Hi Pandu,
1. There are a couple of things you can do in this instance. You could manually remove the deadline after the 1 day threshold.
Open the work item and select Edit -> Change -> Change Deadline -> Excute and then remove the Requested Start deadline
(ensure you have Technical View set for the work item display)
Deadline monitoring (SWWDHEX) will have to execute before the work item will transition out of a Waiting state.
Alternatively you could store the deadline parameter externally in a config table somewhere and retrieve it into the workflow for use with your deadline. Obviously when you change the configuration from 30 days to 1 taking care to ensure that the changes are not transported to prod. Not really fond of this since there is a risk of transporting the changes.
2. Transactions like SWIA don't allow you to execute work items in a Waiting state. So as above go into the work item and either change the deadline or execute.
I hope this helps,
Best Regards,
Trevor

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