topic Re: startEvent with Timer and repeat only executing once in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/startevent-with-timer-and-repeat-only-executing-once/m-p/246382#M199512 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hmm…using a cron seemed to have fixed the problem.&nbsp; Would have liked to know why the other time expression didn't work…but I can live without it.&nbsp; Thanks for your help!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 29 Jun 2016 23:58:06 GMT celery 2016-06-29T23:58:06Z startEvent with Timer and repeat only executing once https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/startevent-with-timer-and-repeat-only-executing-once/m-p/246380#M199510 Hello,Just started playing around with Activiti and am having trouble getting a timer to fire off multiple times.I have a startEvent with a timer in my bpmn20.xml file:&lt;process id="TimerAutoExec" isExecutable="true"&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;documentation&gt;Timer Auto Exec&lt;/documentation&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;startEve Wed, 29 Jun 2016 03:13:23 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/startevent-with-timer-and-repeat-only-executing-once/m-p/246380#M199510 celery 2016-06-29T03:13:23Z Re: startEvent with Timer and repeat only executing once https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/startevent-with-timer-and-repeat-only-executing-once/m-p/246381#M199511 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You are starting the process instance once manually (String proc_id = processEngine.getRuntimeService().startProcessInstanceByKey(process_name).getId():smileywink:, hence your one entry.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>But in the while loop, there should be one file every minute, yes. Not sure why this isn't working …</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Alternatively, you can try to use a cron expression.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 29 Jun 2016 09:23:42 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/startevent-with-timer-and-repeat-only-executing-once/m-p/246381#M199511 jbarrez 2016-06-29T09:23:42Z Re: startEvent with Timer and repeat only executing once https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/startevent-with-timer-and-repeat-only-executing-once/m-p/246382#M199512 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hmm…using a cron seemed to have fixed the problem.&nbsp; Would have liked to know why the other time expression didn't work…but I can live without it.&nbsp; Thanks for your help!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 29 Jun 2016 23:58:06 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/startevent-with-timer-and-repeat-only-executing-once/m-p/246382#M199512 celery 2016-06-29T23:58:06Z