topic Re: how to set timerEvents, startdate and enddate in Alfresco Archive

how to set timerEvents, startdate and enddate

mhp — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:38:27 GMT

Hi,Can anybody help me regarding this, i have tried in many ways.I want to start a process on startdate, I will get startdate value from my applicaiton and the process should end on enddate, iam getting enddate from my application.Iam doing like this:<startEvent id="theStart" > <timerEve

Re: how to set timerEvents, startdate and enddate

trademak — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:43:43 GMT

Hi,

You can't mix expressions and static text. So please use an expression with a full time cycle definition.
Why do you want to end a process explicitely with a timer definition? How would you model this in BPMN?

Best regards,

Re: how to set timerEvents, startdate and enddate

mhp — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:23:21 GMT

Hi Tijs,

Thanks for your reply,

In our application, there is a situation like we need to send a mail to projectManager on startDate of the projectRelease until the enddate of the release.

So I want use timeCycle such that for every 10 hours a mail will sent to the manager. And I want to stop to sending mails on end date of the release.

Thanks again.

Re: how to set timerEvents, startdate and enddate

ronald_van_kuij — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:58:58 GMT

I think you can mix expressions and static text, but it shoud be done in a way like
${''.concat(sdate).concat('/PT10H')}

Re: how to set timerEvents, startdate and enddate

mhp — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:08:15 GMT

Why do you want to end a process explicitely with a timer definition? How would you model this in BPMN?

I want to start a process to send a mail on startDate of ProjectRelease (startdate is in the form of : wed Mar 14 00:00:00 UTC+0530 2012) for every 10 hours and I want to stop sending mails on endDate of ProjectRelease (enddate is in the form of : wed Mar 21 00:00:00 UTC+0530 2012)

I thought, for above scenario timer definition is best way to use. If not please suggest me how to implement this in activiti.

Thank you.

Re: how to set timerEvents, startdate and enddate

trademak — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:23:16 GMT

@Ronald, then it's an expression right 😉

@mhp, your use case sounds like a Quartz job or so, not really like a process definition. If you do want this functionality you can include a time/date check after each cycle and end the process if necessary.

Best regards,