Wait for field change minimum pause time?

Question

I have created a workflow on the announcements list. The goal is to have announcements delete from the list once they reach the expiry date.

The workflow has the following steps:

• Wait for Expires to equal (ignoring time) Today
• Delete Item in Current Item

I know when you add a pause for duration step the minimum pause time is 5 minutes even if set to 1 minute within the workflow. But does this also apply to the Wait for field to change step?

I created a test record with expires set to today however in the workflow status it appears to not be getting past the "Waiting on expires" stage.

Refreshed the page every few minutes and there has been no change. Can anybody explain what's going wrong here or suggest a better way to achieve this goal?

Central Admin access is not an option so no power-shell solutions etc.

Thanks

Answer 1

Just go to List settings, you will get Information management policy settings link

Click on announcements content type-->Enable Retention-->Add a retention stage-->Select a time period (when to run the action)--> Select Action as "start a workflow"