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How to stop/disable a timer event after another task is done?

ssun — Tue, 06 May 2014 22:04:45 GMT

Our use case is very simple.A task need to be done in 1 day. I have a timer boundary event set to a day. The boundary event is not blocking so user can still work on the task after a day. But when the time is up, I will start to send email to the user that need to work on the task every hour to remi

Re: How to stop/disable a timer event after another task is done?

igorbelo — Wed, 07 May 2014 14:20:20 GMT

I had a problem like yours, and i solved attaching a TimerBoundaryEvent to a subprocess.
The TimerBoundaryEvent is started when the subprocess starts. If the subprocess reaches an EndEvent, the TimerBoundaryEvent is "cancelled".

Attention on attribute "Cancel Activity" in TimerBoundaryEvent, if false, it won't cancel the subprocess activity.

Re: How to stop/disable a timer event after another task is done?

ssun — Wed, 07 May 2014 18:46:57 GMT

Thank you igorbelo. But I'm still a little confused. The TimerBoundaryEvent can only fire once, right? After my TimerBoundaryEvent fires, I start to send reminder email every hour. My problem is how do I stop when the task is done on the main process.

Thank you!

Re: How to stop/disable a timer event after another task is done?

ssun — Thu, 08 May 2014 17:39:18 GMT

Has anyone done this without code?
It basically boils down to how do you interrupt a loop with a timer. In my case the loop with the timer is sending reminder email every hour. And I have multiple instances of such loop. So I need to interrupt the right one.

Re: How to stop/disable a timer event after another task is done?

martin_grofcik — Fri, 09 May 2014 06:05:30 GMT

Hi,

You can send signal to the "email sender" and stop sender's execution (Use e.g signal boundary event for it).

Regards
Martin