Hotfix for Time-Based SPD Actions Available

Hi folks, Gabe Hall here again.

If you are using 'Pause For Duration' or 'Pause Until Date' in your workflows, you may want to update your server with the latest Workflow Foundation hotfix. It deals with issues around the 'Delay' activity that those two SPD actions are based on.

The fix can be downloaded from here:

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6096ce0f-d21e-47ac-afe2-d4e1c2fce670&displaylang=en

This download addresses all three issues listed in KB 932816.

Enjoy!
-Gabe

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 08, 2007
  Hi, Microsoft didn't mention that the hotfix is supported on win server 2003 R2, just win server 2003 SP1. Can you know if it's possible to apply it on 2003 R2? Thank you!

• Anonymous
  May 08, 2007
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• Anonymous
  May 15, 2007
  [Via SharePoint Designer Team Blog]Hi folks, Gabe Hall here again.If you are using 'Pause For Duration'

• Anonymous
  July 05, 2007
  Hi Gabe, I installed the HotFix you mentioned in a VPC with MS Demo Litware environment. I have a small Workflow in which I use 2 Pause for Duration of 1 minute and it just doesn't work. The workflow remains paused forever. The workflow runs correctly without the Pause for Duration. Do you have any ideas what could be wrong? Edgardo

• Anonymous
  July 20, 2007
  [Quote Source=" SharePoint Designer Team Blog "] Hi folks, Gabe Hall here again. If you are

• Anonymous
  July 25, 2007
  I was just putting together a test workflow for a custom list in SharePoint which uses the "Pause Until

• Anonymous
  November 30, 2007
  Hi, I am actually having the same issue, installed the fix, detached the workflow associated to the doc library, rebooted, and created a new simple workflow with the installed fix, but still the workflow won't fire up once paused.  Any ideas on what could be wrong ?  Your help is much appreciated. Aditya

• Anonymous
  January 04, 2008
  I was unable to install the hotfix on my dev server which has MOSS 2007 SP1 installed. I received the error: "The upgrade patch cannot be installed by the Windows Installer service because the program to be upgraded may be missing, or the upgrade patch may update a different version of the program. Verify that the program to be upgraded exists on your computer and that you have the correct upgrade patch" Am I making some simple mistake?

• Anonymous
  January 24, 2008
  I had the same problem with the "pause" actions. In my case one of the reasons was the MOSS server performance. In the begginig I tried delays for 1 minute but the workflow did not respond, then I changed the delays to 5 minutes and it is working fine.

• Anonymous
  January 31, 2008
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• Anonymous
  March 26, 2008
  In meinem letzten Artikel habe ich beschrieben, wie mithilft eines einfachen SharePoint Designer-Workflows

• Anonymous
  April 24, 2008
  Hey hey I am having a serious problem with the "Set a field in current item" and "Update list item" actions. Everytime I use these actions, I have an endless amount of workflow instances running one after the other on the same item whether the workflow is started automatically or manually... Anyone experience this before?

• Anonymous
  April 30, 2008
  Kandy, Read this blog entry and my comment posted on it - to solve your issue. http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1CC1EDB3DAA9B8AA!995.entry HTH ThiNg

• Anonymous
  June 26, 2008
  We can't installl this hotfix but we have installed MOSS SP1 which I believe contains the fix.  Still, pause for duration in sharepoint designer workflows doesn't work - it never wakes up.  I hope his is fixed soon because it is preventing us from using MOSS workflow in our organisation.

• Anonymous
  July 24, 2008
  Has anyone found a resolution for this problem?

• Anonymous
  September 29, 2008
  When i tried to install these fixes i got the following error "The upgrade patch cannot be installed by the Windows Installer service because the program to be upgraded may be missing, or the upgrade patch may update a different version of the program. Verify that the program to be upgraded exists on your computer and that you have the correct upgrade patch" any one has details on this?

• Anonymous
  September 30, 2008
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• Anonymous
  October 02, 2008
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• Anonymous
  December 09, 2008
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• Anonymous
  June 12, 2009
  In meinem letzten Artikel habe ich beschrieben, wie mithilft eines einfachen SharePoint Designer-Workflows

• Anonymous
  October 06, 2009
  I am trying to find what SP level our SharePoint is at, and Microsoft's tech site has gotten so convolouted trying to find simple information. You almsot need a consultant to find this. Sharepoint:  v 12.0.6219.1000

• Anonymous
  November 17, 2009
  Im having a same problem in my aplication. i want to run my workflow in loop and workflow steps are as follows. This should create task daily. CreateRecTask - [Custome action created using VS 2008] Pause for 1 day Update item in current list this workflow ahs been created using SPD and triggers in Create and Update events. But it never run in a loop. after the first cycle its completed and stop