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Pausing a workflow

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Pausing a workflow

Two of the core workflow actions involve pausing, either pausing for period of time or pausing until a particular point in time. This is different than waiting, when we're waiting we're waiting for something to actually happen. When we're pausing, we're pausing for some duration or until a specific point. You'll find both of these actions in the core actions, right here, Pause for Duration or Pause Until Date. When we choose to pause for a duration, I simply click pause and then I can choose how many days, how many hours, and how many minutes I wish to pause. And let me tell you why I use this, there are lots of times that you take one step, and if you immediately, in the next microsecond, take another step, it creates in issue for SharePoint because it's still doing the first step when the workflow is asking it to do the next step. A prime example of this, is when I want to move an item from one list to another. Now to do this in SharePoint 2013, we actually have to use InterOp…

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