SharePoint Calendar End Time Column And Workflow Updating

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I am trying to update the End Time column using a SharePoint Designer workflow. I simply want to add 15 minutes to any new event created, but I cannot update the End Time column. I constantly receive this error:

The workflow could not update the item, possibly because one or more columns for the item require a different type of information.

I am able to add 15 minutes to any generic data column in the calendar, but not the End Time column.

Any ideas on how to update the column?

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Are you saying that you could do it to other SPFieldDateTime columns? can you put your code how you are doing? – xgencoder
Yes, I can update a Date Time field that I've added to a calendar list. There isn't any code, I've built the workflow using SharePoint Designer. – Turtlehand

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Does the workflow run on item update? SharePoint will not a workflow to loop e.g. you update the titem, the workflow updates the end time, this update restarts the workflow, so the emd time is updated etc

Have you tried using a calculated column for the end date? This link will show you how to add minutes to a time

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Better late than never :) I found the solution for this: EndDate should be updated the same time as EventDate. You can use the Update List item action and update both fields with it to get rid of the error message.