How to schedule a workflow in AEM?

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I have to develop a workflow,where admin user has an ability to select date to complete that workflow.

E.g. as soon as workflow notification comes to admin user, he can review the content and select a date so that page can be published.

Is there any OOB functionality available?

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workflowaem
I think AbsoluteTimeoutHandler is what you're looking for. This can be used for scheduling the content publishing based on user entered date in the workflow participant step. – Abhishek

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Yes, you can achieve this OOTB.

If you have developed a custom workflow, you will have to write code to set a property named absoluteTime to the workflows metadata, then make use of OOTB process step called Absolute Time Auto Advancer to take it further.

You can also make use of OOTB workflow called scheduled activation (http://<domain>:<port>/etc/workflow/models/scheduled_activation.html). This might help you achieve your use case completely using OOTB features. This link here will shed more light on how to get this done.