How To Start Scheduled Workflow Only On Items which meet criteria

  • 11 August 2016
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Is there anyway for a schedule to evaluate items in a list so that the scheduled workflow will only run on those items which evaluate to 'true'? For example, I'd want a workflow to run nightly, but only on list items when--generically speaking--checkbox Y in the list item=Yes and checkbox X in the list item=No. Is this possible


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Yes it is possible.


I would create a site workflow. Schedule it to run each night.

In that site workflow I would query the list for items matching your criteria.

Then you got a collection of item ID’s do a for each on them starting the list
workflow on them.

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Like Fredrik Andresen​ says a site workflow with a targeted query list would work.

Here are some site workflow blogs and Xchange solutions that might help you with this:

Document Review Reminder Process

Action Task Reminder - Site Workflow

Let us know if you get stuck.  happy.png

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