- In CRM, Navigate to the Workflows area. Settings > Workflows
- Give the Workflow a meaningful name.
- Set the Entity value to Case.
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Select New Blank Workflow and click ok.
- Leave Workflow Name and Publish As the same.
- Change the Scope to Business Unit – This allows the case to be available for everyone.
- Uncheck all Automatic options to Start when: – You want to have control of when your recurring case starts.
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Under Available to Run Check On Demand and As a child workflow

Now add your workflow steps.
- You will first add a step that creates the case. Add Step > Create Record
- Give the step a name and chose the Case value for Create:
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Click Set Properties to setup the actual case that will appear in the Cases area when the case is automatically generated.

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Fill in the appropriate details as you would when manually making a case and Save and Close.
- Add a wait condition step to the next step in the workflow.
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Click <condition>(click to configure) to add the duration you want the case recur. (e.g. 30 days)
- Select Workflow, Timeout,
Equals and under Form Assistant select Month, Days, Hours and/or Minutes. In this example I will select 30 Days. -
In the drop down box right below select Duration.
We are saying here: When this workflow is started, to wait 30days before it creates a case.
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Save and Close

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Save and close your workflow and you should now see it in your list of workflows.
- Double click to open the workflow you just created and now let’s create the last step of the workflow.
- Add the step Start Child Workflow
- Select the Case value for Start child workflow.
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In the next box to the right browse and select the name of this workflow (e.g. Recurring Case 1).
To summarize: Create a case, wait 30 days, then call the same workflow again.
- Finally click Publish to finalize this workflow.
- To start the workflow go to Services > Cases > Run Workflow and select the workflow from the list.
Now you have a automatically recurring case.
Note: To edit the workflow you must first Unpublish the workflow before any changes can be made.
Caution!!! You must Unpublish the workflow to stop the workflow from running forever.
