TimeCycle explanation

[wheli]

Hi,

I am having some difficulty finding information in your manual. We are planning on utilizing a timeCycle in one of our bpmn files:

<timerEventDefinition>
<timeCycle>0 0 5 * * ? *</timeCycle>
</timerEventDefinition>

Once I upload the file, this will cause the timer to kick off everyday at 5AM correct? What happens if we restart our tomcat application that is hosting Activiti? Will the report still automatically kick off at 5AM? or will we have to manually kick it off to get the timer going again?

Thanks!

[trademak]

Do you have the time cycle in a start event? If so the timer is stored in the database, so after restart it will still automatically kick off at 5AM yes.

Best regards,

[wheli]

It is, and we are not seeing the reports kick off daily…

<code>
<startEvent id="timerstartevent1" name="Timer start">
      <timerEventDefinition>
        <timeCycle>0 0 5 * * ? *</timeCycle>
      </timerEventDefinition>
    </startEvent>
</code>

We are using v5.16, could that be part of the problem?

[jbarrez]

We do have a test for this which looks similar to what you have: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/blob/master/modules/activiti-engine/src/test/java/org/activiti/...

Did you enable the job executor?

[wheli]

Yep. In my spring config:

<code>
<bean id="processEngineConfiguration" class="org.activiti.spring.SpringProcessEngineConfiguration">
   <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
   <property name="transactionManager" ref="transactionManager" />
   <property name="databaseSchemaUpdate" value="true" />
   <property name="jobExecutorActivate" value="true" />
        <property name="jobExecutor" ref="jobExecutorBean" />
<property name="enableDatabaseEventLogging" value="false" />
    <property name="customFormTypes">
      <list>
        <bean class="org.activiti.explorer.form.UserFormType"/>
        <bean class="org.activiti.explorer.form.ProcessDefinitionFormType"/>
        <bean class="org.activiti.explorer.form.MonthFormType"/>  
      </list>
    </property>
  </bean>
</code>