topic How to get notified when task is being cancelled? in Alfresco Archive

How to get notified when task is being cancelled?

mariusz_cwikla — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:25:17 GMT

As in topic: how to get notified when a task is being cancelled? I have a process that is composed of a user task and a timer boundary event attached to this user task (cancelActivity="true"). In such case when timer is fired then current task is cancelled. I need something like a TaskListener on a

Re: How to get notified when task is being cancelled?

trademak — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:20:18 GMT

Hi,

You can add that logic to the timer boundary event or not? Because you know the task is cancelled then.

Best regards,

Re: How to get notified when task is being cancelled?

ronald_van_kuij — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:27:42 GMT

But afaik, you do not have a handle to the task, so you cannot send an email to the assignee

Re: How to get notified when task is being cancelled?

mariusz_cwikla — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 08:48:09 GMT

Hi Tijs,
no, I can't add logic to timer event, Eclipse Designer does supports listeners for timer events. I didn't found such information in user guide either (docs describe only time event definition - timeDate/timeDuration/timeCycle).

Ronald, yes, I want to get a handle to a task attached to a timer event that is being fired so I can notify user that his task got cancelled.