Workflow - Multiple dead line messages

I've got a PO ( BUS2012 ) workflow in which I want to have weekly notifications sent to the workflow initiator if the PO has not been released. I gone the route of setting up a fork, one fork looks for the PO release and the other fork does a loop and sends an email every seven days, notifying the initiator that the PO has not been released.
I'd like to have the email contain a hot link to the PO document. ( At the beginning we had a one time LATEST END notification which allowed us to link to the PO, however I could not get the LATEST END to be performed weekly.
Thanks
JB

A deadline will only occur once, so the most common solution for repeated deadlines is a loop, either a loop creating new work items (modelled latest start or end deadline) or a loop with requested start deadline in a parallel branch as you have now.
Your problem may be solved by setting up a latest start deadline of 7 days, which uses a simple notification, and a latest end deadline of e.g. 7 days 10 minutes (or any number of minutes greater than the interval between your deadline jobs) which uses a modeled deadline to loop and create a new work item.

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