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| surabhi |
 Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:13 am Post subject: [SOLVED]Activity Expiration.. |
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Hi All,
We have a requirement in our project to checkin , a checked out acitivity when a session expires in our front end.
We are using the JAVA API to implement this activity..
I know one way of doing this would be to have a deamon application that would cancle checkout the workitems after a specified time.. but i wanted to know if it would be possible to implement this requirement by using either expiration time or duration of activity..
All help is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Surabhi
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| jmac |
| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:31 am Post subject: |
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You could not use expiration time because that would change the state of the activity to Expired.
You could use the notification facility to do what you are asking.
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| surabhi |
| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:53 am Post subject: |
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Hi John,
Thanks for your reply.
With Notification I would need to set the notification timer same as the session time out time and may be send this workitem to some other user.
Well my requirement is that the workitem must remain in the users (original users) worklist in ready state...
Would that be possible to achieve with some modeling techniques ?
Thanks again,
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| jmac |
| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:28 am Post subject: |
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I am still not sure I get exactly what it is you are trying to do. If the item is in a "checked out" state the only way to get it back into a Ready state is to either do a Cancel Checkout, or a Force Restart. The choice between the two would revolve around whose worklist do you want the ready item to reside in.
Assuming that you do not have to go directly from the CheckedOut state to the Ready state, then perhaps you can use an Expiration. It seems to me that this is what you are wanting to do. If the activity is not allowed to enter the Expired state, there is NO way you can accomplish this.
For the sake of this discussion I will assume that you don't care if the activity is in the Expired state for a short time. Put the activity in a Block, put an expiration on the activity If the activity Expired have the Block repeat.
One other thing, is there a possibility of using an exit that would get fired when the application session expires? Then you could go directly from Checked Out to Ready.
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| surabhi |
| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:48 am Post subject: |
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Thanks John.
Appreciate the help. The requirement is to move a item from the checked out state to ready state in the same users worklist , whenever a session time out occurs.
I am aware that this requirement is not an out of the box supplied feature of the product but just wanted to check from the gurus here if such a thing could be possible with a workaround.
Thanks for the suggestion using the block... appreciate it..
Thanks again.
Cheers,
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| vijaycr |
| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| You have said you are using JAVA API? is that a web application? |
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| tsrisudh |
| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:46 am Post subject: |
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Surabhi, you can try other options but still the best way to accomplish what you said is using the JAVA API, we too have done the same thing, On session expiry we check if there are checkout items by the logged in user and if yes then we do a cancelCheckout on each of the work item.
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| vijaycr |
| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:33 am Post subject: |
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I guess Srisudhir is talking about the HttpSesssion expiry..Thats why i asked is it a web application or a stanalone Java application.
If it is a webapp once the HttpSession has expired the workflow session wont have any meaning so u can write your code on HttpSession expiry |
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| surabhi |
| Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:16 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Vijay and Srisudhir ..
We are going to do exaclty the way you ppl have suggested.
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