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Apr 06, 2018Sharepoint 2013 - creating a workflow to check for monthly entries in a list, send alert if no entry
In Sharepoint I have a list of multiple columns to track invoices as they come in and are approved, sent to AP for payment. Each row is new invoice, starting with vendor ID # and name.
One of t...
Nigel Witherdin
Apr 09, 2018Iron Contributor
This is purely a personal preference, but I would write a powershell script to do this and run it as a scheduled task of a dedicated server.
I much prefer running these sorts of regular run batch jobs in this manner as opposed to a workflow or even a server-side timer job.
I find PowerShell scripts to be more flexible in what you can achieve, easier to run to an expected schedule, far easier to maintain/deploy (no outage), and more portable to later versions of Sharepoint/O365