Task-Node Reminders

[cbensemann]

Hi,

I am using seam 2.2.0 and jbpm 3.2.6.SP1 and am trying to set up my first jbpm project and have the basic process defined and can progress from start to end. I now want to add email notifications in for task-assign and task-reminder. The following is the task-node config for the node I want notifications from:

    <task-node name="review">
        <task name="review_incident" duedate="5 minutes" notify="true" >
            <assignment pooled-actors="handsadvisor" />
            <reminder duedate="2 minutes" repeat="1 minute" />
        </task>
        <transition name="approved" to="end" />
        <transition name="initiate_review" to="review_phase" />
    </task-node>

When I assign a task to a user having the "handsadvisor" role the task-assign email event if fired (I can see in the debugger that org.jbpm.mail.Mail#execute is called. But a similar event for task-reminder is never called. I would expect one to be generated after two minutes then every minute until the dueDate (is this correct?)

I have been looking round for some good examples of the more advanced features in jbpm but have not had much luck. If I have missed some documentation that describes this then please point me in the right direction

Thanks

[kukeltje]

well, this is not advanced jBPM usage but basic usage.  One thing you need to have though is a jobexecutor running.

[cbensemann]

Thanks for your reply. While it may not be advanced functionality I have found for a first time user the setup and usage of the bpm stuff to be poorly documented (this is especially from a seam point of view where there appears to be little information on how seam initialises jBPM and how it is integrated (which of course is a seam issue not a bpm one). After you post it seemed obvious that there was a scheduler and that it was not running and a search in the seam forums returned http://seamframework.org/Documentation/JBPMDeploymentInProductionEnvironments It appears that seam does not initialise any timer stuff by default and this article explains how to extend a component to provide the possiblity to do so.

Thanks again,

Craig

[kukeltje]

cbensemann wrote:

... (which of course is a seam issue not a bpm one)...

Correct ;-)

cbensemann wrote:

After you post it seemed obvious that there was a scheduler and that it was not running and a search in the seam forums returned http://seamframework.org/Documentation/JBPMDeploymentInProductionEnvironments

Thanks for posting the link here