Hello, I am trying to make a change to a thing for a future date specified by the user. For example: The user creates a service with service information and a due date attached. If the date is in the future and not today then the status of the service will be imported as “Upcoming” since the service is not due yet. I would like to have some sort of workflow that would automatically change the status of the workflow from “Upcoming” to “Pending” once the date is today or in the past so the user knows that it is due.
Is this possible and would someone be able to walk me through the process of making this possible?
Thank you for providing the link to the video. It definitely helped me understand the basis of backend workflow and get started but it only walked you through the process of creating a new thing or sending an email. The problem I ran into for “make changes to a thing” was locating the specific “Thing to change” that I was trying to change. I believe I solved it but adding a unique item # when the data is entered and then adding that to the Schedule API to help identify which item it was. This seems to work but if you are aware of an easier solution I would sure like to learn. Thank you for your help.
Once you create a service you can add a status tag to it. Upcoming/pending etc. and schedule a backend workflow to change its status to online once the due date has passed.
This schedule can be triggered the moment someone changes the date and submits the form.
Also get scheduled workflow id back into the table so that you can cancel/update it if the user changes the due date again.
