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is Boundary Timer Event consider hours, minutes and seconds also to move to next task?

riteshgupta — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 19:38:17 GMT

I am developing the workflow where I have the requirement that the when the due date of the task is passed away then I have to move to another task. For implementing it I am using Boundary Timer Event. But I observed that when I set the time date of the timer as after five minutes from today time an

Re: is Boundary Timer Event consider hours, minutes and seconds also to move to next task?

vasile_dirla — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 23:28:33 GMT

it should work I just tested the boundary timer event with this expression:
1. "PT30S" -> to trigger after 20 seconds from the moment when the task was created.
2. R3/PT30S -> to send 3 emails 30 seconds interval.

<code>
<boundaryEvent id="boundarytimer1" name="Timer" attachedToRef="usertask1" cancelActivity="false">
   <timerEventDefinition>
    <timeCycle>R5/PT30S</timeCycle>
   </timerEventDefinition>
</boundaryEvent>
</code>
would be nice if you could provide a demo XML file which we could use for testing.

Re: is Boundary Timer Event consider hours, minutes and seconds also to move to next task?

riteshgupta — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 18:19:32 GMT

thanks for ur reponse. Below is the config I have done:
<boundaryEvent id="boundarytimer2" name="Timer" attachedToRef="usertask2" cancelActivity="true">
      <timerEventDefinition>
        <timeDate>${dateVariable}</timeDate>
      </timerEventDefinition>
    </boundaryEvent>

I am setting the value of dateVariable dynamically. I set 5 to15 minutes in different process instances for the timer event but instead of trigerring the event after 5 to 15 minutes. The date format I have used is ISO8601. It got fired immediately. Please help on it.

Re: is Boundary Timer Event consider hours, minutes and seconds also to move to next task?

riteshgupta — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 18:20:02 GMT

<boundaryEvent id="boundarytimer2" name="Timer" attachedToRef="usertask2" cancelActivity="true">
      <timerEventDefinition>
        <timeDate>${dateVariable}</timeDate>
      </timerEventDefinition>
    </boundaryEvent>