Expressions in startevent's timecycle

[gwaptiva]

Hi,

I tried setting the value of the timecycle element on a startEvent to an expression, but the parser chokes on the $ sign. Is there another way of taking an external value for the cycle rather than hardcoding it in the process definition/xml?

Thinking of something like

<startEvent id="start">
   <timerEventDefinition>
      <timeCycle>${cronFromExternalSource}</timeCycle>
   </timerEventDefinition>
</startEvent>
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Thanks in advance for any suggestions

[jbarrez]

The timecycle is parsed as an expression, so it should work. Could you create a simple unit test to demonstrate the problem?

[gwaptiva]

Before I do, two additional bits of information that I (*blush*) omitted from the original post.

Firstly, I'm using version 5.4 and secondly, the startEvent is the start of another process's CallActivity calledElement. I mention the latter specifically because the documentation states:

Note: a subprocess cannot have a timer start event.

If this is then also valid for CalledActivity 'subprocesses' I know where I went wrong.

[jbarrez]

Yes indeed, that's also the case for callactivities.