topic How to use Timer start event? in Alfresco Archive

How to use Timer start event?

hamepal — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:52:10 GMT

Hi all, I tried to use Timer start event in a very basic work flow. But I get error while deploying it using activiti-probe. I have followed the same syntax as given in the user-guide. Failed to parse cron expression: R4/2011-07-01T11:55/PT01M‍My bpmn file is as following.<?xml version="1.0" enc

Re: How to use Timer start event?

ronald_van_kuij — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:36:42 GMT

The spec says this is valid (from what I read), the activiti docs mentiones this format, but I do not see a unit test for it. So it might just be a bug… You could try adding seconds ':00' to it to see if that helps

Re: How to use Timer start event?

ronald_van_kuij — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:54:03 GMT

I just checked and the seconds are indeed required in activiti.

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-865