I need to use DelayActivity steps to ‘hold’ the sending of some notification emails until the correct time. That time is to be set at runtime.

However, it appears that in State Machine workflows the TimeoutDuration of a DelayActivity can only be set at design time. Trying to set it at runtime causes the DelayActivity to never expire.

I tried the same for a sequential workflow, and it worked okay. It seems this only affects State Machine workflows in SharePoint 2007 (MOSS)

EDIT: correction, it DIDN’T work okay in a sequential workflow. I’m sure I did this before, though. Perhaps it’s broken in Beta 2 TR, or maybe my memory is failing.