I have a service task. When it fails, I'm setting a boolean process variable "taskFailed" to true. An exclusive gateway after this task should end the flow if taskFailed is false or re-direct flow to a intermediate time event when taskFailed is true.
Using this intermediate timer catching event, after 1 min, I wanna redirect flow back to service task so that I could retry it. I also want to retry it for 5 times, waiting for a min each time before retry. So in the intermediate timeer catching event, I could set lifecycle to R5/PT1M.
Now after retrying for 5 times, if the task still fails, I want to end process. Now how do I tell intermediate time event to end process after 5th recurring time? How should I re-direct this intermediate timer event to an end event after time cycle finishes?
I suggest to redesign your process using a BPMN error event attached to your Service task and then use a ScriptTask or another ServiceTask to manage the counter.
Something similar to the following:
Look at the following documentation:
https://www.activiti.org/userguide/6.latest/#serviceTaskBpmnErrors
Hope this helps 
