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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:

http://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

Published Wednesday, May 02, 2007 12:52 AM by spdblog

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Eddy said:

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!

May 9, 2007 1:39 AM
 

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May 9, 2007 2:00 AM
 

Kit Kai's Tech Blog said:

[Via SharePoint Designer Team Blog]Hi folks, Gabe Hall here again.If you are using 'Pause For Duration'

May 15, 2007 8:26 PM
 

Pantera71 said:

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

July 6, 2007 7:27 AM
 

Mirrored Blogs said:

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

July 20, 2007 11:47 AM
 

Mabsterama said:

I was just putting together a test workflow for a custom list in SharePoint which uses the "Pause Until

July 26, 2007 1:53 AM
 

Aditya said:

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

November 30, 2007 10:21 PM
 

Maxer said:

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?

January 4, 2008 9:45 AM
 

Garcilazo said:

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.

January 24, 2008 4:17 PM
 

Raghu Iyer said:

Same here , pause func not working even after applying hot fix.

January 31, 2008 2:42 PM
 

Fabian's Blog [SharePoint MVP] said:

In meinem letzten Artikel habe ich beschrieben, wie mithilft eines einfachen SharePoint Designer-Workflows

March 27, 2008 2:42 AM
 

Kandy said:

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?

April 24, 2008 8:38 AM
 

ThiNg said:

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

April 30, 2008 2:33 PM
 

Lars Nielsen said:

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.

June 26, 2008 2:03 PM
 

Jon said:

Has anyone found a resolution for this problem?

July 24, 2008 2:55 PM

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