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Starting a process at some time in the future

lbornov2 — Fri, 20 May 2016 17:14:22 GMT

We have a use-case where we need call startProcessInstanceByKey in order to obtain the Process instance ID, but we want the process to actually start only 5 minutes *after* startProcessInstanceByKey() was called.i.e./* the actual starting of the process should be delayed by X minutes */final Process

Re: Starting a process at some time in the future

p4w3l — Sun, 22 May 2016 05:06:40 GMT

Service task with some kinda "sleep(3600)" ?

Re: Starting a process at some time in the future

martin_grofcik — Mon, 23 May 2016 06:24:45 GMT

Hi Lev,

One of the solutions could be:

Process design:
NoneStartEvent —> Timer catching event (Duration 5 mins) —> Process Body

Code:


final ProcessInstance processInstance = runtimeService.startProcessInstanceByKey("requestType", variables);

Method call starts the process. The process instance creates timer which waits 5 mins. After the timer execution process continues further.

Regards
Martin