You can specify a time limit for a participant to complete a step. The deadline indicates an amount of time relative to the time that the step was routed to the participant. Optionally, you can specify that the assigned participant receive a reminder of the pending deadline; the reminder is relative to the expiration time of the deadline. You can also define a submap that will execute if the deadline expires.
If the participant does not complete the step within the specified time, an icon displays in front of the step name in the participant's inbox. If the participant selects e-mail notification for deadlines and reminders, an e-mail message is sent when these events occur. A tracker for this workflow can also select e-mail notification for deadlines and reminders.
NOTE Workflow deadline is independent of step deadlines. If you are defining both a workflow deadline and deadlines on individual steps, you should check that the total deadline for all the steps will not be greater than the workflow deadline. While there is no consequence of overlapping deadlines, the messages could be confusing.
To specify a deadline for the current step
For example, to specify a deadline of the integer data field deadlineTime where deadlineTime is the number of minutes, you might enter
addminutes(systemtime(), deadlineTime)
See Expression Builder for additional information.