Pausing a workflow

Two of the core workflow actions involve waiting, pausing for something to happen.…One is to pause for a specific period of time, and the other is to Pause until a…specific time, or time and date.…I'll be honest, that I don't use the Pause until very often, I use Pause for…a few all the time.…So if we're going to choose to Pause for a few, here, I can right-click and…choose Pause for Duration, and the default duration is 5 minutes, and let me…tell you why I use this.…

There are lots of actions that if you take a step and then try to take the next…step, SharePoint needs to catch up with you, it needs to update list, it needs…to send an email, and if you jump right from one thing to the next, SharePoint…actually isn't ready for you.…A prime example of that is when you want to copy an item to another list and…then delete the current item.…If you don't leave room for a pause that item will never actually be deleted…because the Copy operation is still going on, and the next microsecond…SharePoint gets ready to do the Delete, and it can't, because the item is in…