topic Re: Cancel BoundaryEventTimer? in Alfresco Archive

Cancel BoundaryEventTimer?

jonathan1 — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:43:06 GMT

I have a process that calls three call activities in Activiti 5.10. Each call activity has a BoundaryEventTimer associated with it, used if the call activity gets stuck (right now just going to an ErrorEndEvent).Looking at the Activiti DB and trace of variable assignments, it appears that the Bound

Re: Cancel BoundaryEventTimer?

frederikherema1 — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:42:08 GMT

When the scope the timer is on is destroyed (e.g. task completed, subprocess finished), the timers are deleted as well. How does your process XML looks? Maybe you could create a unit-test demonstrating the problem.

Re: Cancel BoundaryEventTimer?

jonathan1 — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:32:52 GMT

Thank you, frederikheremans,

I've narrowed down the problem and am waiting on Maven to download resources from the Alfresco Maven Repository through my company's firewall so I can insert the "unit" test into the Activiti unit-test framework on the sticky post…

While I'm waiting… and waiting… The problem stems from installing a TimerBoundaryEvent on a ReceiveTask used inside a CallActivity. The ReceiveTask gets signalled, flow proceeds normally, but then the timer on the ReceiveTask is triggered later.