Assigned Custom Tasks, Titles, Pausing workflows and the dreaded failure to resume
I've had mixed results with pausing SharePoint Designer workflows based on a duration. Inevitably it will work a few times and then stop for no apparent reason when the pause duration ended. It could be the environment, a service pack level, or even a hotfix needing to be applied. I was using the "Collect Data from User" action in a workflow and I needed to update the Title and pause for a while so that the Task List's Related Content field matched. (more detail in the Background) Pausing for any duration did not work. It simply stated "Failed to run" after pausing. I did some research and found lots of hits on this, but nothing I could actually do. I didn't have physical access to the server to apply a hotfix or run any stsadm commands. So I tried a different approach as outlined below. 1) Added a status column on the first list, the one processing the information that the Task assignment workflow ran on 2) Modified my first workflow to on