Delete more than 1 List item based on Closing date in SPS2013 List

Question

I`ve created a workflow from SPD2013 for SPS2013 List, that will delete the list item based on closing date equals to today. Issue, it does it for the only one item, even though if there are more than 1 item with closing date set to today. I understand workflow suggest for incase of multiple items, it will do it for the first. Please suggest if any option to perform delete option for multiple items at once?

Answer 1

You can set up retention policy to start a workflow when any condition (in your case closing data is today) is satisfied. In that workflow you can set step to delete the item. This way multiple items can trigger workflow to do the required functionality.

Answer 2

I got the solution, created a workflow and set it run on all items every night to do the following. Check workflow Screenshot -

https://i.stack.imgur.com/MKowj.jpg

In order to run daily on all items and not just current item (usually workflow will run on one item at a time) -

Powershell Code

    `# URL of the Site 
$web = Get-SPWeb -Identity "example.com"

$manager = $web.Site.WorkFlowManager 

# Name of the list 
$list = $web.Lists["List name"] 

# Name of the Workflow 
$assoc = $list.WorkflowAssociations.GetAssociationByName("Workflow name","en-US") 

$data = $assoc.AssociationData 
$items = $list.Items 
foreach($item in $items) 
 { 
 $wf = $manager.StartWorkFlow($item,$assoc,$data,$true) 
 } 

$manager.Dispose() 
$web.Dispose()