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Timer Start Event fired only once?

chris_joelly — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 21:58:52 GMT

i want to start a process e.g. every 30 seconds and added the following to the process definition: … from a modeller process definition … <startEvent id="Start_every_30sec_3" name="Start every 30sec"> <timerEventDefinition id="…."> <timeCycle id="…." xsi:t

Re: Timer Start Event fired only once?

frederikherema1 — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:08:23 GMT

That's strange. We have a unit-test for this: org.activiti.engine.test.bpmn.event.timer.BoundaryTimerNonInterruptingEventTest.testTimerWithCycle. It's using:


<timerEventDefinition>
                <timeCycle>R/PT1H</timeCycle>
            </timerEventDefinition>

but It also works with:


 <timerEventDefinition>
                <timeCycle>0 1 * * * ?</timeCycle>
            </timerEventDefinition>

Re: Timer Start Event fired only once?

trademak — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:12:40 GMT

Hi,

I gave it a try myself and with the Activiti Explorer it works fine for me.
Every 30 seconds a new process instance is created.
How did you do your test?

Best regards,

Re: Timer Start Event fired only once?

chris_joelly — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:52:32 GMT

sorry. i think i had some confusion. i started the process and it was executed immediately.
and afterwards i missed the executions in the log file.