topic Re: Timerstartevent ? in Alfresco Archive

Timerstartevent ?

vire7777 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:52:41 GMT

Hi people,Always on my workflow, something sounds strange to me.i ve created a workflow with a TimerStartEvent to start it.As i want this timerevent to start the workflow only 10 minutes after the workflow instance was created, i ve put "PT10M" in the "Time duration" zone of this TimerStartEvent.But

Re: Timerstartevent ?

vire7777 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:39:59 GMT

Ok i ve understood why it doesn t work well.
When i was launching my process, i was using a StartNewInstance()…
BUT, how can i give variables to my workflow if i can t use StartNewInstance() ?

Re: Timerstartevent ?

frederikherema1 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:30:35 GMT

You can't have them both… Either, you start a process yourself, passing in parameters OR you have your process start itself at some given point in time (possibly multiple times) by itself without passing parameters.

If you want to have the timer-started workflow behave differently, depending on certain values, add an additional service-task (or use a gateway) which uses services in YOUR environment, capable of accessing the values the process needs (e.g.. spring-beans, …).

Re: Timerstartevent ?

vire7777 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:05:19 GMT

Thanks frederik
In fact i've done it using a TimerCatchingEvent.
It works well like that as i can give my variables to my workflow and create many subsequences if i want or launching them when i want