Conditional Sequence Takes Too Long When It's False

asked on October 4, 2017 • Show version history

My data is one DCR document (what I'll call the main document) and may have attachments associated with it (but it's not required). I have a workflow that contains three similar "repeats" that contain conditional sequences:

Searches for specific file(s) (PDFs) and moves them to an INPUT folder (for Quick Fields processing)
Searches for those file(s) (which are now TIFs) and moves them back to the TEMP folder
Searches for attachment file(s), if they exist, and moves them to the end of the main document.

This process works well as long as there is one or more attachment. The issue is when there is no attachment. It continues to repeat until the activity's iteration limit has been reached:

That can be 50 minutes later! So, in #3, above, where I have it circled in red, what changes can I make to have this also work more quickly when there are 0 attachments?

Thanks!

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replied on October 4, 2017

What is the Repeat activity meant to do?

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replied on October 4, 2017

Hi Miruna, I'm very new to workflow. I probably saw it as a solution that worked for someone else and managed to get it to work for my issue. It did solve whatever problem I was having with #1 and #2 but doesn't seem to help me with #3. Do you suggest I remove it?

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replied on October 4, 2017

Your workflow is designed to search and if it finds no results, wait a minute and then search again, up to 30 times. So I was trying to figure out if you're attempting to wait for more documents to come in or something.

Maybe you can describe the bigger picture for us so we get an idea of what you're trying to do?

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replied on October 4, 2017 • Show version history

Big picture ... take PDFs from Forms, change one or more to TIFs, move any attachments to the end of the main document to create one file.

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Conditional Sequence Takes Too Long When It's False

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