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Reminders on parallel user tasks

marco_altieri_7 — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 11:56:26 GMT

I have a workflow that starts several tasks in parallel assigned to different groups.When the task starts, an email is sent to the members of the group.Every day a reminder must also be sent to each group that has not completed the task.I tried different solutions but they all have some issues.What

Re: Reminders on parallel user tasks

p4w3l — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:56:57 GMT

Not sure about "standard" but I like timer boundary event fired to email task with specific time cycle.

Re: Reminders on parallel user tasks

marco_altieri_7 — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:50:40 GMT

The problem is that in that case the reminder is the same for all the parallel tasks.
I need to distinguish between tasks that have been already closed and tasks that are really due.

Re: Reminders on parallel user tasks

marco_altieri_7 — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 18:55:37 GMT

I am not sure that my last comment is clear.
If I just define a task with multiple instances to start the parallel tasks and I define a timer boundary for that task, than when the timer fires, only one task will be created. What should I do in this task to send the reminder only to users that have not completed the task ?

Re: Reminders on parallel user tasks

p4w3l — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 07:35:44 GMT

You could create multi-instance subpprocess and put the task inside then the event on that task

Re: Reminders on parallel user tasks

marco_altieri_7 — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 12:56:02 GMT

Thank you for your answer. The subprocess unfortunately does not work because there is a bug in the version of Activiti that is integrated in the last version of Alfresco One.
A timer in a subprocess does not work as expected.

Re: Reminders on parallel user tasks

marco_altieri_7 — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 12:56:49 GMT

There is an issue open in jira: https://activiti.atlassian.net/browse/ACT-4090