topic Re: Time Duration support in User Task Due Date in Alfresco Archive

Time Duration support in User Task Due Date

balsarori — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:52:42 GMT

Hi,Task due dates are commonly used as relative dates (relative to task creation date) and if I am not mistaken, the only way to set task relative due date is by using an external bean. I suggest to add support for ISO8601 Durations format in user tasks due date similar to time duration in Timer Eve

Re: Time Duration support in User Task Due Date

frederikherema1 — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:00:34 GMT

You can implement the solution in a Pull-request and create tests for it so all edge-cases and normal usage is covered. Once ready, submit the pull-request on github and we can take a look at it!

Re: Time Duration support in User Task Due Date

balsarori — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:10:34 GMT

Thanks for your reply.

Should it be implemented by using the due date attribute 'activiti:dueDate' or by adding a separate attribute 'activiti:timeDuration' ?

I think that if its going to work with no issues on the same 'activiti:dueDate' attribute, then no need to add a new attribute. What do you think?

Re: Time Duration support in User Task Due Date

frederikherema1 — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 05:51:58 GMT

The timer-definition has a separate attribute/element for timeDuration. However, to keep it clear it's the "dueDate" we're targeting with the time-duration, "activiti:timeDuration" won't be a good fit imho. So it makes sense to reuse the existing property. It's easy to differentiate between an expression (${…}) and a period. So go ahead and reuse the dueDate attribute.

Re: Time Duration support in User Task Due Date

balsarori — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:18:30 GMT

OK

Here is the pull request
https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/pull/84

Re: Time Duration support in User Task Due Date

frederikherema1 — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:38:57 GMT

Thanks. For completeness, could you please sign the contribution agreement (http://activiti.org/Alfresco_Contribution_Agreement.pdf) so we have all paperwork sorted, that would be great You can send it to tijs dot rademakers at alfresco dot com.