title: How to use Automated actions in Odoo 8?
body: <p>I wanted to send emails a day(fewdays) before a particular due date. </p>
  
  <p>I went on to try with automation actions and was confused with on how it would work</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/EOw6v.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/EOw6v.png" alt="Automated Actions"></a></p>
  
  <p>and also the server action for that respective automated action </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZG1Qm.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZG1Qm.png" alt="Server Action"></a></p>
  
  <p>I would like to know whether "based on timed condition" works or does not work, as far as I have tried and researched, this seems to be a bug or which does not work.</p>