topic TimeCycle explanation in Alfresco Archive

TimeCycle explanation

wheli — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 14:00:23 GMT

Hi,I am having some difficulty finding information in your manual. We are planning on utilizing a timeCycle in one of our bpmn files:<timerEventDefinition><timeCycle>0 0 5 * * ? *</timeCycle></timerEventDefinition>Once I upload the file, this will cause the timer to kick off

Re: TimeCycle explanation

trademak — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:43:30 GMT

Do you have the time cycle in a start event? If so the timer is stored in the database, so after restart it will still automatically kick off at 5AM yes.

Best regards,

Re: TimeCycle explanation

wheli — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:26:37 GMT

It is, and we are not seeing the reports kick off daily…

<code>
<startEvent id="timerstartevent1" name="Timer start">
      <timerEventDefinition>
        <timeCycle>0 0 5 * * ? *</timeCycle>
      </timerEventDefinition>
    </startEvent>
</code>

We are using v5.16, could that be part of the problem?

Re: TimeCycle explanation

jbarrez — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:17:36 GMT

We do have a test for this which looks similar to what you have: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/blob/master/modules/activiti-engine/src/test/java/org/activiti/engine/test/bpmn/event/timer/StartTimerEventTest.java#L76

Did you enable the job executor?

Re: TimeCycle explanation

wheli — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:24:33 GMT

Yep. In my spring config:

<code>
<bean id="processEngineConfiguration" class="org.activiti.spring.SpringProcessEngineConfiguration">
   <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
   <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />
   <property name="databaseSchemaUpdate" value="true" />
   <property name="jobExecutorActivate" value="true" />
        <property name="jobExecutor" ref="jobExecutorBean" />
<property name="enableDatabaseEventLogging" value="false" />
    <property name="customFormTypes">
      <list>
        <bean class="org.activiti.explorer.form.UserFormType"/>
        <bean class="org.activiti.explorer.form.ProcessDefinitionFormType"/>
        <bean class="org.activiti.explorer.form.MonthFormType"/>
      </list>
    </property>
</bean>
</code>