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Pausing a process with a TimerStartEvent

rgareau — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:14:17 GMT

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. I've tried a couple of things but I'm having troubles preventing the timer from firin

Re: Pausing a process with a TimerStartEvent

frederikherema1 — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:58:51 GMT

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…

The only way you can stop the timer from firing, is to undeploy the process (deployment).

Re: Pausing a process with a TimerStartEvent

rgareau — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:32:16 GMT

Is this considered a problem/bug to be fixed or is this behavior intentional by design and if so why?

Thanks