Break out of a workflow loop while a pause is underway?

[Nanehi]

I am using Nintex 2013 workflow with SharePoint 2013 on premise.  Reference the attached workflow:

• An employee submits a request for payment. A review and response is expected in less than 1 day.
• “Set a Condition” is used to determine if the reply is overdue to the requestor.
• If the reply is overdue, a notification is sent to the reviewer and the requestor.
• Then a 1 day pause is kicked off and the cycle continues every day until the request is approved or rejected.
• If the reviewer approves or rejects the request for payment before the 1 day pause is complete, notification that a decision was made won’t be known until the 1 day pause is complete. Worst case, there would be almost a one day delay in the requestor knowing the payment request had been approved or rejected.
• Is there a way to break out of this loop if the request is approved or rejected while the pause is still underway?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

[emha]

are there any specific reasons why you decided for this kind of design?

are you aware of nintex provides several task actions? eg. Assign  Flexi task one?

https://help.nintex.com/en-US/nintex2013/help/#Workflow/RootCategory/Actions/Nintex.Workflow.FlexiTa...

with task action you do not need to do any custom looping nor pausing.

when you assign a task to somebody, workflow stops at the action and waits until the task is responded in a defined manner. once the task is responded, the workflow immediatelly continues.

within the action you can configure regular notifications, or even escalation as well.