topic Timer Duration seems not to be working in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-duration-seems-not-to-be-working/m-p/220025#M173155 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>First of all let me say that I'm new to activiti and therefore might do something silly <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The thing is that I'm creating a unit test against a bpmn diagram that starts with a Timer start event in which i set the duration to 1 hour (PT1H). So I expect the process to wait for an hour before it continues. But instead of that I see that it progresses immediately. There must be something wrong in my setup I guess…..</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Hope you can help!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Victor</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This is the simple flow that I created to test the timer start event. It has a script with a counter and a gateway that will loop back to the start event five times. In the output I see that it hits the script without the hour delay that I expect: </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;code&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;definitions xmlns="</SPAN><A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL</A><SPAN>" xmlns:xsi="</SPAN><A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</A><SPAN>" xmlns:xsd="</SPAN><A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</A><SPAN>" xmlns:activiti="</SPAN><A href="http://activiti.org/bpmn" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://activiti.org/bpmn</A><SPAN>" xmlns:bpmndi="</SPAN><A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI</A><SPAN>" xmlns<img id="smileysurprised" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysurprised" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-surprised.png" alt="Smiley Surprised" title="Smiley Surprised" />mgdc="</SPAN><A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC</A><SPAN>" xmlns<img id="smileysurprised" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysurprised" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-surprised.png" alt="Smiley Surprised" title="Smiley Surprised" />mgdi="</SPAN><A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI</A><SPAN>" typeLanguage="</SPAN><A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</A><SPAN>" expressionLanguage="</SPAN><A href="http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath</A><SPAN>" targetNamespace="</SPAN><A href="http://www.activiti.org/test" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.activiti.org/test</A><SPAN>"&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;process id="TestTimer" name="TestTimer" isExecutable="true"&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;startEvent id="timerstartevent1" name="Timer start"&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;timerEventDefinition&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;timeDuration&gt;PT1H&lt;/timeDuration&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/timerEventDefinition&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/startEvent&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;endEvent id="endevent1" name="End"&gt;&lt;/endEvent&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;scriptTask id="scripttask1" name="Script Task" scriptFormat="groovy"&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;script&gt;def count = execution.getVariable("count") ?: 0</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;count ++</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;execution.setVariable("count", count)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;println("&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;" + new Date() + " count=" + count)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/script&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/scriptTask&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;sequenceFlow id="flow1" sourceRef="timerstartevent1" targetRef="scripttask1"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;sequenceFlow id="flow2" sourceRef="scripttask1" targetRef="exclusivegateway1"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;exclusiveGateway id="exclusivegateway1" name="Exclusive Gateway"&gt;&lt;/exclusiveGateway&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;sequenceFlow id="flow3" sourceRef="exclusivegateway1" targetRef="timerstartevent1"&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;conditionExpression xsi:type="tFormalExpression"&gt;&lt;![CDATA[${count&lt;5}]]&gt;&lt;/conditionExpression&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;sequenceFlow id="flow4" sourceRef="exclusivegateway1" targetRef="endevent1"&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;conditionExpression xsi:type="tFormalExpression"&gt;&lt;![CDATA[${count&gt;=5}]]&gt;&lt;/conditionExpression&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/process&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;/definitions&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;code&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>And the corresponding unit test:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;code&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>public class TestTimer {</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ProcessEngine processEngine;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ActivitiRule activitiRule;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;@Before</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;public void setup(){</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;processEngine = ProcessEngineConfiguration.createStandaloneInMemProcessEngineConfiguration().buildProcessEngine();</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;activitiRule = new ActivitiRule(processEngine);</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;@Test</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;public void testTimer(){</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Deployment deployment = processEngine.getRepositoryService().createDeployment().addClasspathResource("diagrams/TestTimer.bpmn").deploy();</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;activitiRule.getRuntimeService().startProcessInstanceByKey("TestTimer");</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>}</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;code&gt;</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 01 Mar 2016 13:51:21 GMT victorbos 2016-03-01T13:51:21Z Timer Duration seems not to be working https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-duration-seems-not-to-be-working/m-p/220025#M173155 Hi all,First of all let me say that I'm new to activiti and therefore might do something silly <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span> The thing is that I'm creating a unit test against a bpmn diagram that starts with a Timer start event in which i set the duration to 1 hour (PT1H). So I expect the process to wait for an hour before i Tue, 01 Mar 2016 13:51:21 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-duration-seems-not-to-be-working/m-p/220025#M173155 victorbos 2016-03-01T13:51:21Z Re: Timer Duration seems not to be working https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-duration-seems-not-to-be-working/m-p/220026#M173156 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You have created a timer start event. It means it will start on certain times … not the way you describe.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>When you call startProcessInstanceByKey, the engine will just start it, ignoring the timer definition.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 01 Mar 2016 21:25:58 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-duration-seems-not-to-be-working/m-p/220026#M173156 jbarrez 2016-03-01T21:25:58Z