How to configure the timerEventDefinition for 1 single day ?

[vincent_roye]

Hi,

I have this boundary event in my workflow

        <boundaryEvent id="reviewTimer" name="Review Nag Timer" cancelActivity="false" attachedToRef="reviewTask">
         <timerEventDefinition>
           …..
         </timerEventDefinition>
   </boundaryEvent>
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And I would like to trigger it only 1 specific day which is "bpm_workflowDueDate - 3 days". How can I fill my timerEventDefinition ?

Thank you very much for your help,

Best Regards,

Vincent

[afaust]

Hello,

based on <a href="http://www.activiti.org/userguide/#timerEventDefinitions">the Activiti user guide</a> you could use P3D to tell the timer to fire 3 days after being created / registered.

Regards
Axel

[vincent_roye]

Hi Axel,

I would need to set the timer 3 days before the due date. Do you know how I could do that ?

Thank you very much for your answers.

Vincent

[afaust]

Hello Vincent,

I have not tried it but I believe you can use expression language instead of absolute values to define the time. So basically you could write an <a href="http://www.activiti.org/userguide/#apiExpressions">expression</a> that calculates the date (directly or by calling a Java delegate).

Regards
Axel