Recurring designer workflow email notifications

Question

I have a list which has "Due date" and "assigned To" ,"task status" Fields.and i want to write a designer workflow in such a way that a. Before the due date, send an alert to the "Assigned To" person every 48 hours unless the task status is changed to "Completed" or "Deferred" b. After the due date, send an alert to the "Assigned To" person every 8 hours unless the task status is changed to "Completed" or "Deferred"

I know we can not use whlie loop in designer workflow.Could you please suggest me how can we acheive this with if-else loops.

Answer 1

Is this in SharePoint 2013? If yes, SharePoint Designer 2013 Create Task action should let you choose if you want to send out recurring reminder and options for that.

If you add a new "Assign a task" action in SPD, if you click on "this user" you can set up Due Date for created task as well as Overdue Emails:

For SharePoint Designer 2010, you can follow these steps to create "pseudo" reminder:

http://kmlsp.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/more-on-calendar-reminder-4-steps-to-create-reminder-workflow-in-sharepoint-calendar/