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Pausing a workflow?

Workflow

Updated February 28, 2016

asked on February 23, 2016

Hello!

Any ideas on how to pause the workflow from running during business hours? I have a workflow that queries over 400K documents in our repository. Due to the large amount of files, I don't believe the workflow will complete by the start of business Monday. I would like to kick off the workflow Friday evening at 7pm, run it over the weekend, then pause the workflow at 5am Monday morning. Then have the workflow continue from where it paused the following Friday at 7pm. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Tom

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replied on February 23, 2016

Depending on what it does, you could set the search to get smaller result sets and run it multiple times on a schedule.

There is no way to pause it for business hours.

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replied on February 24, 2016

you could set the search to get smaller result sets and run it multiple times on a schedule

This is what I've had to do for Quick Fields Agent sessions and workflows that run on lots of docs. You either limit the search criteria or you can limit the number of entries returned in the search via the search activity settings.

If it takes an average of 45 minutes to run against 50,000 docs, then set the limit to 50k and make the rule run every hour or so until the next business day.

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replied on February 23, 2016

Add a delay feature in the workflow or add a schedule starting rule.

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replied on February 28, 2016

Thanks for the responses! I went with processing a range of client ID numbers instead of processing all the files at once.

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