topic Re: Start timer event supporting multiple times in Alfresco Archive

Start timer event supporting multiple times

natedawg — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:14:34 GMT

Hi,Quick question,Is it possible to specify in a <b>single</b> start timer event following:- execute a job every 6 hours except on Sundays and last Friday in a monthIf it is pls point me to some good documentation of values specified in Time cycle.Kind regardsA.H.

Re: Start timer event supporting multiple times

martin_grofcik — Mon, 02 May 2016 06:13:09 GMT

Hi A.H,

use cron expressions
http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#bpmnEvents

Regards
Martin

Re: Start timer event supporting multiple times

natedawg — Wed, 04 May 2016 14:19:23 GMT

Hi,

But can I specify more than one cron expression in a single start timer event?

Kr
A.H.

Re: Start timer event supporting multiple times

jbarrez — Tue, 10 May 2016 09:54:00 GMT

No, but "- execute a job every 6 hours except on Sundays and last Friday in a month" should in theory be doable with cron … just don't ask me how, I always have to google those things

Re: Start timer event supporting multiple times

natedawg — Tue, 10 May 2016 10:54:35 GMT

Thx for the answer. I am aware that a single cron exp may cover a lot of date specs but I have to automatically transform custom workflow system to activiti, including scheduling. A single process may be triggered by a dozen of date specs, hence my question regarding multiple cron expressions.

Kind regards
A.H.

Re: Start timer event supporting multiple times

jbarrez — Wed, 18 May 2016 15:25:50 GMT

In the next version there is support for multiple start timer events, which sounds like a solution to your problem.

Re: Start timer event supporting multiple times

natedawg — Thu, 19 May 2016 06:41:21 GMT

Sounds great. Thx for the info

Kind regards
A.H.