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Business calendar with activiti

iabughosh — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:37:19 GMT

Dears,can we define a business calendar in Activiti to define working days? if yes please post the solution .thanks in advance.

Re: Business calendar with activiti

ronald_van_kuij — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:40:48 GMT

Not yet. I have a (partial) solution, but with to little testcases to commit it…

Re: Business calendar with activiti

pangea — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:49:22 GMT

We are also interested in this functionality. Is there anyway this could be part of next release?

Re: Business calendar with activiti

ronald_van_kuij — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:08:02 GMT

no, next release is februari 1st and I have no time before that to write documentation, create more testcase etc…

Re: Business calendar with activiti

pangea — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:57:06 GMT

Makes sense. So may be next release after february 😉

Re: Business calendar with activiti

ronald_van_kuij — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:15:23 GMT

Looks like the 5.9 release is going to be postponed 1 month.

http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3345

Maybe I find the time to incorporate it then.

Re: Business calendar with activiti

pangea — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:33:51 GMT

I wish we could see the atleast 1 of the below incorporated into the release

1. Pluggable JobExecutor (Spring task executors preferably):
2. usiness calendar with activiti: http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3333

Cheers.

Re: Business calendar with activiti

iboppana — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:29:24 GMT

Just wanted to check if Business Calendar feature was included in version 5.9.
Did not see it in the release notes.
http://activiti.org/readme.html

Thanks
Indrani

Re: Business calendar with activiti

ronald_van_kuij — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:40:22 GMT

Nope…

Re: Business calendar with activiti

ronald_van_kuij — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:05:06 GMT

Finally: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-1452

Re: Business calendar with activiti

frederikherema1 — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:50:48 GMT

I beg to differ… Look at org.activiti.engine.impl.calendar.BusinessCalendar, this class has been there since 2 years now, and subclasses are used to calculate timer-dates etc, e.g.:


 if (duedate==null) {      
      duedate = businessCalendar.resolveDuedate(dueDateString);
    }

    TimerEntity timer = new TimerEntity(this);
    timer.setDuedate(duedate);
    if (executionEntity != null) {
      timer.setExecution(executionEntity);
    }

This can be plugged into the process-engine configuration, using the BusinessCalendarManager

Re: Business calendar with activiti

ronald_van_kuij — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:57:07 GMT

Uhhhmmm…. Sorry Frederik I miss the context of your remark… in what regard do you 'beg to differ'? Yes maybe my post was to short, so let me elaborate.

What this issue is about is to be able to have a duration that takes only working days into account. So a P5D issued on tuesday would 'trigger' on the next tuesday and not on sunday, if there is only a weekend in between and no holiday's…. The current names of the implementation classes, '*BusinessCalendar' are rather misleading since they are just a plain normal calendar 'calculation' classes and none takes holidays, weekends etc into account.

That is what my 'new/enhanced' DurationHelper class does for the DurationBusinessCalendar… Changing a P5D into B5D makes this possible…

Cheers

Re: Business calendar with activiti

frederikherema1 — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:33:02 GMT

Never mind… I didn't see any reference to the existing mechanism, just your remark stating that you can't "define a business calendar in Activiti to define working days?". You actually can right now by having a custom BusinessCalendar that is ALWAYS using business-days whet "P5D" is defined.

But the B instead of P-improvement will be done using an implementation of the "org.activiti.engine.impl.calendar.BusinessCalendar", which I was referring to.

Carry on, nothing to see here