Make a workflow run on a particular day of the Week.

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Posted on by Priyesh

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Hi All,

I need to trigger a workflow on a specific day of the week, say, Friday. My original thought was it would run every day and check if that day was Friday using Custom Workflow Assembly, but I am looking for a cleaner approach.

Any better thoughts on this?

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Aiden Kaskela 19,696 on at

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Hi,

You can set up your workflow to sleep for a week and run, but you need to make sure it starts on a Friday :) I'm partial to checking for the day of the week because you can restart it any time you need to.

There's a free workflow assembly you can install so you don't need to write custom code - Workflow Elements is available on App Source (appsource.microsoft.com/.../kaskelasolutions.8e2a0463-dde5-4869-bf39-5efc945ffdbb) or if AppSource is unavailable to you, from www.kaskelasolutions.com

The activity to call is 'Date – Get Date Components' (kaskelasolutions.com/activity-get-date-parts) and one of the output parameters is Day of Week as an option set.

Hope this helps! I'd appreciate if you'd mark this as Answering your question.

Thanks,

Aiden

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ashlega 34,477 on at

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You can always create a bulk delete job..

Create a custom entity(or use an existing entity), set up a workflow to run on delete of that entity, and, in that workflow create another record of the same entity type (so the bulk delete job will have a record to delete the next time it starts). Other that that, do whatever else you need to do in that workflow.

Then schedule this bulk delete job to run on the following Friday and every 7 days after that.

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Somesh2207 1,563 on at

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Hi Priyesh,

If you are not comfortable using 3rd party solutions, you can easily develop your own custom workflow assembly.

These are the steps for Custom workflow assembly development for your requirement:

1. Create a Custom workflow assembly with 1 text input parameter - "Day of Week" and 1 output parameter - "Is Specified Day of week ?" (Boolean/ True or False)

2. The CodeActivity will read this input e.g. "Friday", then get the current day of week using .NET DateTime object.

3. Then it can compare and set the Output variable - "Is Specified Day of week ?" true or false based on comparison.

Advantage is you can configure this to compare other days as well. as required in future if your requirement changes.

Learn how to create Custom workflow assembly - msdn.microsoft.com/.../gg334455.aspx

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Priyesh 7,396 User Group Leader on at

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Thanks Aiden and Somesh,

very valuable inputs. I'll need to analyze with what would work best with my client and go with that approach.

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Hi Aiden,

I am trying to run a weekly recurring workflow with the following parameters:

1. Check if project template equals NOS

2. Set the "shipped" True/False field to "False" every week

3. This workflow should be triggered every Wednesday

I cant seem to find the "day of week" activity in Date - Get Date Components. Am I going wrong somewhere?

Please help me out if possible.

Thanks,

Jon

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Temmy Wahyu Raharjo 2,916 on at

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If you use workflow and put sleep, I'm afraid there will be a lot of workflow with status pending. For this purpose, I actually more prefer using console application (creating IOrganizationService) and do the logic there.

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Alex Fun Wei Jie 33,628 on at

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Hi Jon,

the Day of week is available after the workflow return something. You cant use it within the custom workflow.

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Hi Wei Jei,

Thank you so much. I just wasnt able to find the "day of week" part.

If I want to update the TRUE/FALSE "shipped" field to False, every Wednesday, how can I exactly set up the workflow parameters?

Thanks,

Jon

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Currently I have this so far

First check if project template is NOS

Then Update Project where Shipped field is set to False

How would I configure the day of week condition (run every Wednesday)?

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Karuna Karan 1,212 on at

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You can develop a custom workflow assembly something like this. It's serving great purposes for me in my organization.

Run Frequency can be set to Daily, Weekly, Monthly, etc.

Regards

KK

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