tag:help-archives.hannonhill.com,2010-02-09:/discussions/how-do-i/420-create-a-timed-workflowCascade CMS: Discussion 2018-10-18T20:36:15Ztag:help-archives.hannonhill.com,2010-02-09:Comment/71890142011-05-12T14:58:22Z2011-05-12T14:58:22Zcreate a timed workflow<div><p>Hey Travis, really interesting idea you have here. What isn't
working exactly?</p>
<p>For this sort of scenario we most often just create a meta-page
asset for the "overseers" that reports on the last 100 modified
pages using an index block and format. We have dozens of other
kinds of custom reports our users like to see about their site,
including a content staleness report that color-codes how old pages
are by their last modified date.</p></div>Lee Roberson (Function Digital LLC)tag:help-archives.hannonhill.com,2010-02-09:Comment/71890142011-05-13T18:41:26Z2011-05-16T18:09:02Zcreate a timed workflow<div><p>Hi Travis,</p>
<p>Your Workflow looks correct and should escalate to publishing
automatically. My guess is that you may have noticed that the
escalation period of 60s isn't working consistently? There is an
explanation for this.</p>
<p>Basically, the application runs a bunch of scheduled jobs in the
background (things like Publish Queue checks, Workflow Expiration
checks, Recycle Bin emptying checks, etc). One of these scheduled
jobs checks for steps in Workflows that require escalation. This
job runs every 10 minutes in the system. So, from the time you
submit your asset into Workflow, the actual escalation step could
end up taking anywhere from 60s to 599s (9m59s) just depending on
when the last check was performed.</p>
<p>Let me know if this makes sense.</p>
<p>By the way, I tested your Workflow and I think it does work as
you wanted it to (just not with the exact escalation time you were
expecting).</p></div>Timtag:help-archives.hannonhill.com,2010-02-09:Comment/71890142011-05-16T18:06:15Z2011-05-16T18:06:15Zcreate a timed workflow<div><p>Ok the system only checking it every so often makes sense and it
does work. Guess I was never patient enough to let it sit there.
Thanks for the help.</p>
<p>@Lee Roberson Thanks for the idea, I never thought of doing
this. I have a feeling this will go over great with the our web
team.</p></div>Travis F.