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Asked: 2026-05-17T17:36:16+00:00

I am in the process of puting together a custom workflow activity to be

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I am in the process of puting together a custom workflow activity to be used in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

What I would like to ultimatly acheive is configure a workflow that runs on a schedueled basis i.e run every 2 hours Monday to Friday, rather than on a particular “CRM event” like create, delete status change ect.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Maybe schedule it outside of crm?

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What we are doing is processing rows in a staging table that gets generated from a front-end site. We are creating contact/account and opportunity records in CRM based on the data captured from the front-end.

The more I think about it the more I’m thinking that using workflow is possibly not the best solution?

What about a using a windows service?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Workflow was not best option for this situation due to the following:

    • Can’t schedule it to run
    • The process can only be triggered by a CRM create, update or similar message

    I went with a combination of the following:
    A SQL CLR sproc that gets called on an UPDATE trigger on the staging table. The CLR sproc calls a webservice that generates CRM contacts/accounts. That way the front-end site can create records and set a “ready to process” flag once all data has been entered.

    The requirement changed from a schedule solution to real time processing (well not ACTUALLY real time). The process needs to run as records are entered from the front end site.

    Hope all that makes sense!

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