Workflow Deadline monitoring

Hi,
Is it possible to re-trigger deadline monitoring more than once, so that if a PO approver has not released a PO within 24 hours, they will receive a reminder every 12 hours until this task

hi..
I hope that you are using an activity step to send workitem to PO approver to approve the PO..
After that step you do as below,
1. Create a loop which loops until your condition (PO approver approves the PO) is met..
2. Insite loop place an activity step with BOR as selfitem and method as sendtaskdescription (This is used to send mail remainders to approver)
3. In that activity step add a requested start deadline of 12 hrs so that mail is sent every 12 hrs..
4. Note that here you are not inserting you actual activity step that you send to PO approver inside loop. So you need not worry that workitem is send repeatedly to him. Only activity step to send remainder mails is inside loop.
Hope this helps..
Cheers,
Bharath
Edited by: bharath padmanabhan on Jul 11, 2011 6:20 PM

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