Workflow To Send Multiple Calendar Reminders

Question

all,

I'm trying to build a workflow that sends reminders to the creator of a SharePoint calendar entry 2 weeks before the event, 3 days before, the day of, and the day after.

I created date variables for each reminder and came up with the following. If someone would please look over the workflow and let me know if I'm on the right track, I would appreciate it greatly

Answer 1

To Run this as a single workflow you will need to change the the Stop Workflow lines and replace them with Pause until X. Stop Workflow will stop the workflow from running until it is triggered again (i.e run workflow on modification). If you are looking to simply pause and log a message then you should write it as:

Log your message

Pause until Your Date

Alternatively you could look into using retention settings to run the (4)workflows based on the date requirements which in my opinion is much cleaner, especially if you need to change the dates that these workflows run at. If the emails are generic enough you could even just have 1-2 micro workflows.

Here is a great answer from another question on how to do so (Disclaimer I have the accepted answer however the linked answer is not mine). https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/a/164457/39441