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Run Background jobs in Activiti Explorer

shuchi — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 11:04:03 GMT

Hi,I have a use-case wherein I want to assign multiple tasks on a single click of button in Activiti Explorer. The problem with this is since the Engine Service API for Task assignment is a synchronous call, the UI keeps waiting if the number of tasks is large. I want to move this operation to a bac

Re: Run Background jobs in Activiti Explorer

martin_grofcik — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 07:21:31 GMT

Hi Shuchi.

To make assignment asynchronous, I would create a service which will just take the request and record it somewhere. Service will answer immediately after the successful recording. Another thread will consume records and will make assignments accordingly.

Regards
Martin

Re: Run Background jobs in Activiti Explorer

shuchi — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 07:32:47 GMT

Hi Martin,

This would be an external service. I was wondering if I can do this inside Activiti Explorer.