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Time-Based Workflow Actions and Workflow Rule Criteria Question

I have a workflow rule for a task record with evaluation criteria of Evaluate the rule when a record is created and any time its edited to subsequently meet criteria.

The process is:

  1. When a task record is created, the task owner will get email notification
  2. Time-based actions for 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 days, and 7 days are created in the time-based queue.

The workflow can either fire on this condition:

  1. Status field = 'Not Started'
  2. MQP_Types__c field is not null
  3. Task Owner First Name != 'Unassigned'

Or this 2nd condition:

  1. Status field = 'Not Started'
  2. MQP_Types__c field is not null
  3. Task Owner First Name != 'Unassigned'
  4. Reassignments__c field's last character is a hyphen ('-')
  5. Task Owner First Name != 'Unassigned'
  6. CreatedDate <> LastModifiedDate

Thus this means that the workflow rule should only fire when a task is created or when the task has been modified where the Reassignments__c field's last character is a '-' due to some automation tool that updates this field.

Questions:

  1. Will Time-based Actions still load into the time-based queue after a all the actions have fired off their emails (leaving the queue empty) and the task has been updated using the second condition?
  2. If the task is created with time-based actions why do the 1 hour and 2 hours time-based workflow actions show "LastModifiedDate" while the 4 Day and 7 Day time-based workflow actions show "Created Date" on the Workflow Actions Edit Page"?

Here are my screen scrapes to show what I mean. Thanks

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