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Using expressions in Time Cycle of Timer Start Event

andrealuciano71 — Fri, 08 May 2015 01:03:52 GMT

Hi, I tried to define the Time Cycle property of a Timer Start Event as an expression calling a bean method. The purpose is to avoid hard-coding the cron expression in the diagram but also to read the configuration at Activiti startup, so that it would be possible to change a new schedulation with

Re: Using expressions in Time Cycle of Timer Start Event

trademak — Wed, 13 May 2015 13:11:04 GMT

Currently it's only executed at deployment that's correct. That's because the timer job is created once at that time. So what kind of functionality would you like instead?

Best regards,

Re: Using expressions in Time Cycle of Timer Start Event

andrealuciano71 — Wed, 13 May 2015 19:25:07 GMT

Hi,

I was looking into the possibility to change the schedulation of a process without deploying the process again.

As the current implementation of timer start event in Activiti seems to lack this option, I was wondering if someone else had experimented an alternative solution in a similar case.

Kind regards,
Andrea

Re: Using expressions in Time Cycle of Timer Start Event

jbarrez — Mon, 18 May 2015 15:11:50 GMT

You can update the due date in the ACT_RU_TABLE or through the Job entity in Java if you need to change the date of when the process will be started.