topic Timer example in activitirc1 in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-example-in-activitirc1/m-p/39449#M21015 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have been trying the Timer example. I am really very confused now and i am really sorry to ask such basic questions in the forum. but please help me.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This is the code in bpmn file (bundled with examples)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;boundaryEvent id="escalationTimer" cancelActivity="true" attachedToRef="firstLineSupport"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;timerEventDefinition&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;timeDuration&gt;PT8S&lt;/timeDuration&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/timerEventDefinition&gt;<BR />&lt;/boundaryEvent&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>I just changed the time duration to 8 seconds</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>As per the above code I would expect the second line support to be available in 8 seconds.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>but this works only if i manually execute the job using managementService.executeJob(timer.getId());</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If instead i dont execute the job and keep the process alive using Thread.sleep(10000) then can i expect secondline support after 10 seconds?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>here is the changed code</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />public void testInterruptingTimerDuration() {<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// Start process instance<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ProcessInstance pi = runtimeService.startProcessInstanceByKey("escalationExample");<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// There should be one task, with a timer : first line support<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Task task = taskService.createTaskQuery().processInstanceId(pi.getId()).singleResult();<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;assertEquals("First line support", task.getName());<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;//taskService.complete(task.getId());<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// Manually execute the job<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Job timer = managementService.createJobQuery().singleResult();<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;try {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Thread.sleep(10000);<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;} catch (InterruptedException e) {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;System.out.println("time elapsed");<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// managementService.executeJob(timer.getId());<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// The timer has fired, and the second task (secondlinesupport) now exists<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;task = taskService.createTaskQuery().processInstanceId(pi.getId()).singleResult();<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;System.out.println("task "+ task.getName());<BR />}<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>The above code prints "First line support".</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I am sorry if my concepts are wrong here. but please help.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>parul</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:42:40 GMT parul_vipparthi 2010-11-28T11:42:40Z Timer example in activitirc1 https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-example-in-activitirc1/m-p/39449#M21015 Hello I have been trying the Timer example. I am really very confused now and i am really sorry to ask such basic questions in the forum. but please help me.This is the code in bpmn file (bundled with examples)&lt;boundaryEvent id="escalationTimer" cancelActivity="true" attachedToRef="firstLineSuppo Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:42:40 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-example-in-activitirc1/m-p/39449#M21015 parul_vipparthi 2010-11-28T11:42:40Z Re: Timer example in activitirc1 https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-example-in-activitirc1/m-p/39450#M21016 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Can you check your configuration and make sure the JobExecutor is enabled?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Nov 2010 07:59:40 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-example-in-activitirc1/m-p/39450#M21016 frederikherema1 2010-11-29T07:59:40Z Re: Timer example in activitirc1 https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-example-in-activitirc1/m-p/39451#M21017 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I changed job executor to "on" in activiti.cfg.xml</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thank you … it works now!</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>–</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>parul</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:44:29 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-example-in-activitirc1/m-p/39451#M21017 parul_vipparthi 2010-11-29T12:44:29Z Re: Timer example in activitirc1 https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-example-in-activitirc1/m-p/39452#M21018 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Glad to be of service <img id="smileywink" class="emoticon emoticon-smileywink" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.png" alt="Smiley Wink" title="Smiley Wink" /></SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:48:16 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-example-in-activitirc1/m-p/39452#M21018 frederikherema1 2010-11-29T12:48:16Z Re: Timer example in activitirc1 https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-example-in-activitirc1/m-p/39453#M21019 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>What do you mean by this "but this works only if i manually execute the job using managementService.executeJob(timer.getId());"</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>In my case what I want is second job should start after the time out and I don't want to add any wait/sleep. Basically can I have the synchronous timer?</SPAN><BR /></BODY></HTML> Fri, 26 Feb 2016 08:44:20 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-example-in-activitirc1/m-p/39453#M21019 santoshpatel 2016-02-26T08:44:20Z Re: Timer example in activitirc1 https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-example-in-activitirc1/m-p/39454#M21020 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You're resurrecting a five year old thread ….</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Not sure if I'm following you, but what you describe seems to be the default of having a service task after a timer?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 01 Mar 2016 20:40:15 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/timer-example-in-activitirc1/m-p/39454#M21020 jbarrez 2016-03-01T20:40:15Z