topic Pausing a process with a TimerStartEvent in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/pausing-a-process-with-a-timerstartevent/m-p/104931#M73327 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi, when I load into my process engine a process that is started with a TimerStartEvent that is configured with a Time cycle of "R/2012/PT10S" (Every 10 seconds in 2012) </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If I want to pause the process temporarily.&nbsp; I've tried a couple of things but I'm having troubles preventing the timer from firing.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Here is what I've tried</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>repositoryService.suspendProcessDefinitionById</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>runtimeService.suspendProcessInstanceById</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>managementService.setJobRetries(jobId, 0)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>But, the timer keep firing every 10 seconds.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm using Activiti 5.9 with org.activiti.engine.impl.cfg.StandaloneInMemProcessEngineConfiguration with jobExecutorActivate = true in a junit test. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Here is the process definition that I'm testing with</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;definitions xmlns="</SPAN><A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL</A><SPAN>" xmlns:xsi="</SPAN><A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</A><SPAN>" xmlns:activiti="</SPAN><A href="http://activiti.org/bpmn" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://activiti.org/bpmn</A><SPAN>" xmlns:bpmndi="</SPAN><A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI</A><SPAN>" xmlns<img id="smileysurprised" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysurprised" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-surprised.png" alt="Smiley Surprised" title="Smiley Surprised" />mgdc="</SPAN><A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC</A><SPAN>" xmlns<img id="smileysurprised" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysurprised" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-surprised.png" alt="Smiley Surprised" title="Smiley Surprised" />mgdi="</SPAN><A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI</A><SPAN>" typeLanguage="</SPAN><A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</A><SPAN>" expressionLanguage="</SPAN><A href="http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath</A><SPAN>" targetNamespace="</SPAN><A href="http://www.activiti.org/test" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.activiti.org/test</A><SPAN>"&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; &lt;process id="process1" name="process1"&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><STRONG>&lt;startEvent id="timerstartevent1" name="Timer start"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;timerEventDefinition&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;timeCycle&gt;R/2012/PT10S&lt;/timeCycle&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/timerEventDefinition&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/startEvent&gt;</STRONG><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;scriptTask id="scripttask1" name="Script Task" scriptFormat="groovy"&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;script&gt;&lt;![CDATA[System.out.println("Date :" + new Date());]]&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/scriptTask&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;endEvent id="endevent1" name="End"&gt;&lt;/endEvent&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow1" name="" sourceRef="timerstartevent1" targetRef="scripttask1"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow2" name="" sourceRef="scripttask1" targetRef="endevent1"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; &lt;/process&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;/definitions&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>—-</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Here's the Junit test that I use</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; @Test</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; public void stoppingTimerStartedProcess() throws Exception {</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; RepositoryService repositoryService = activitiRule.getRepositoryService();</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; RuntimeService runtimeService = activitiRule.getRuntimeService();</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ManagementService managementService = activitiRule.getManagementService();</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; repositoryService.createDeployment()</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .addInputStream("TimerStartedProcess.bpmn20.xml", new FileInputStream(timerStartedProcessFilename))</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .deploy();</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; List&lt;ProcessDefinition&gt; procDefs = repositoryService.createProcessDefinitionQuery().list();</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; repositoryService.suspendProcessDefinitionById(procDefs.get(0).getId());</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; System.out.println("Pausing for 15 seconds");</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thread.sleep(15000);</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; List&lt;Job&gt; jobList = managementService.createJobQuery().list();</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; managementService.setJobRetries(jobList.get(0).getId(), 0);</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; System.out.println("Pausing for 15 seconds");</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thread.sleep(15000);</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; List&lt;ProcessInstance&gt; procList = runtimeService.createProcessInstanceQuery().list();</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if (procList.size() &gt; 0) {</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; runtimeService.suspendProcessInstanceById(procList.get(0).getProcessInstanceId());</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; } else {</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; System.out.println("procList is empty");</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; List&lt;Execution&gt; execList = runtimeService.createExecutionQuery().list();</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if (execList.size() &gt; 0) {</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; runtimeService.suspendProcessInstanceById(execList.get(0).getProcessInstanceId());</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; } else {</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; System.out.println("execList is empty");</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; System.out.println("Pausing for 20 seconds");</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thread.sleep(20000);</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:14:17 GMT rgareau 2012-06-27T17:14:17Z Pausing a process with a TimerStartEvent https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/pausing-a-process-with-a-timerstartevent/m-p/104931#M73327 Hi, when I load into my process engine a process that is started with a TimerStartEvent that is configured with a Time cycle of "R/2012/PT10S" (Every 10 seconds in 2012) If I want to pause the process temporarily.&nbsp; I've tried a couple of things but I'm having troubles preventing the timer from firin Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:14:17 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/pausing-a-process-with-a-timerstartevent/m-p/104931#M73327 rgareau 2012-06-27T17:14:17Z Re: Pausing a process with a TimerStartEvent https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/pausing-a-process-with-a-timerstartevent/m-p/104932#M73328 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>AFAIK, the suspension-state is just a marker on the process-definition which is easily query-able, and NOT used by the engine to determine whether or not to allow starting of a process…</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The only way you can stop the timer from firing, is to undeploy the process (deployment).</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:58:51 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/pausing-a-process-with-a-timerstartevent/m-p/104932#M73328 frederikherema1 2012-06-28T11:58:51Z Re: Pausing a process with a TimerStartEvent https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/pausing-a-process-with-a-timerstartevent/m-p/104933#M73329 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Is this considered a problem/bug to be fixed or is this behavior intentional by design and if so why?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:32:16 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/pausing-a-process-with-a-timerstartevent/m-p/104933#M73329 rgareau 2012-06-28T13:32:16Z