Email Notification when Task is still In Progress

Hi Rency.

I would use "Assign Flexi Task" action as it offers out of the box reminder functionalities. However you won't be able to infinitely send reminders every 24 hours as you have to specify the "number of reminders" (see screenshot below). 

Instead of sending infinite reminders, I would recommend taking advantage of the "Escalation" functionality within the same action. You could set it to escalate to an individual or a group of people after a x number of reminders have been sent.

However if you have to send reminders every day infinitely you can create a "Site Workflow" and schedule it to run every day without setting

an end day.

Hope this helps!

Hi Rency.

Maybe we should your business process and workflow logic. I think it would make sense to:

1. Assign a workflow task to a manager which lets him choose from the drop down containing the members of the AD group as part of completing that workflow task

2. Then save the selected value of that custom drop down to a workflow variable (or alternatively connect to a SP list filed)

3. Assign a workflow task to the workflow variable containing the selected member, configure the reminder for that workflow task.

This way you don't need to worry about who was selected. Happy to chat more about your business process

Regards,

Thomas

Hi Rency.

This is how you assign a workflow variable as a task assignee.

If you are going to ask the manager to type in email address I would recommend using people picker instead to prevent invalid entries.

If you are still thinking of doing it via your "custom dropdown list" containing all the selected task assigness.

Below is an example of how I build a custom drop down list and then bind the selected value to a variable

1. Add a Label control on your form and give it a unique css class id by "Edit Source", it is "ATRList" in my case

add a Workflow Variable and give it a unique css class  "ATRTitle" in my case

label settings

workflow variable settings

2. On form load, below is the javascript snippets that builds and custom drop down list and also saves the selected value of the drop down list into the workflow variable whenever the selected value changes.

SetFormData -  builds the custom drop down

AttachDropDownChangeEvents - binds the drop down selected value change event handler

NWF$(document).ready(function()

{

SetFormData()

AttachDropDownChangeEvents()

});

function AttachDropDownChangeEvents()

{

  NWF$("#ATRList").change(function()

   {

       var atrSelected= NWF$("#ATRList :selected").val() 

    NWF$(".ATRTItle input").val(atrSelected)

   });

}

Thank you so much for your help and time Thomas.