Timer start event not working

[niktyagi88]

I m running the process by test case and want to start the process at particular time but the process starts when the test cases run.



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<definitions xmlns="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:activiti="http://activiti.org/bpmn" xmlns:bpmndi="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI" xmlnsmgdc="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC" xmlnsmgdi="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI" typeLanguage="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" expressionLanguage="http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath" targetNamespace="http://www.activiti.org/test">
  <process id="process1" name="process1">
    <endEvent id="endevent1" name="End"></endEvent>
    <scriptTask id="scripttask1" name="Script Task" scriptFormat="groovy">
      <script><![CDATA[println "Nikhil Tyagi Testing";]]></script>
    </scriptTask>
    <startEvent id="timerstartevent1" name="Timer start">
      <timerEventDefinition>
        <timeDate>2012-10-09T13:13:14</timeDate>
      </timerEventDefinition>
    </startEvent>
    <sequenceFlow id="flow2" name="" sourceRef="scripttask1" targetRef="endevent1"></sequenceFlow>
    <sequenceFlow id="flow3" name="" sourceRef="timerstartevent1" targetRef="scripttask1"></sequenceFlow>
  </process>
  <bpmndi:BPMNDiagram id="BPMNDiagram_process1">
    <bpmndi:BPMNPlane bpmnElement="process1" id="BPMNPlane_process1">
      <bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="endevent1" id="BPMNShape_endevent1">
        <omgdc:Bounds height="35" width="35" x="70" y="220"></omgdc:Bounds>
      </bpmndi:BPMNShape>
      <bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="scripttask1" id="BPMNShape_scripttask1">
        <omgdc:Bounds height="55" width="105" x="160" y="120"></omgdc:Bounds>
      </bpmndi:BPMNShape>
      <bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="timerstartevent1" id="BPMNShape_timerstartevent1">
        <omgdc:Bounds height="35" width="35" x="280" y="30"></omgdc:Bounds>
      </bpmndi:BPMNShape>
      <bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="flow2" id="BPMNEdge_flow2">
        <omgdi:waypoint x="212" y="175"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="212" y="237"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="105" y="237"></omgdi:waypoint>
      </bpmndi:BPMNEdge>
      <bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="flow3" id="BPMNEdge_flow3">
        <omgdi:waypoint x="280" y="47"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="212" y="47"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="212" y="120"></omgdi:waypoint>
      </bpmndi:BPMNEdge>
    </bpmndi:BPMNPlane>
  </bpmndi:BPMNDiagram>
</definitions>

[frederikherema1]

What does your test-case do? Does it call startProcessInstance? Because this is not needed, a start-event is picked up from the moment the process-definition is deployed…

[mwiede]

Have a look at http://activiti.org/javadocs/org/activiti/engine/impl/util/ClockUtil.html

hope that helps