I'm sure this can be done but I can't figure out how. Certain of our employees must be able to gain access to a local air force base, which means they need an ID badge issued by the base. These badges must be renewed annually. Our HR department tracks these and sends out a reminder each month to those employees whose badge is soon to expire. Each employee must complete a form that contains their personal information, return it to HR, and then HR completes a paper form that the employee takes with him/her to the base to renew the badge.

So what I want to be able to do is have my workflow start in HR. Using a People field that allows for multiple selections, the HR person selects the people to be notified and the month in which their badges are going to expire. Upon submission, a Loop for each action is initiated so that each email address can be extracted. Within the loop the selected people are notified and are each assigned a task, which is to complete their personal info. Completing the task submits the info back to HR, who then review the information and submit. This creates the form that the employee must take to the base, which is attached to an email back to the employee. Once the employee gets the new badge, he/she completes another task in which he/she enters the new expiration date of the badge and HR is notified.

It seemed fairly straightforward when designing it, and it works fine as long as only one employee is notified. But that won't be the case in reality. The problem is that a task in a loop must be completed before it moves on. In this case, the task won't be assigned to the second employee until the first employee completes it, and so on down the line. What I need is for each employee to be notified at the same time, and to be able to complete the task independently of the others. Each month X number of employees will be notified, and so X number of tasks must be assigned.

I have a feeling there's a fairly easy way to do this, but I can't come up with it. Any ideas?