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| workflowdude |
 Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 8:55 am Post subject: Holidays/non working days in workflow |
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Hello All,
We are using notifications for workitems that expire. The expiration time is 2 days.. How do I take care of Weekend days in workflow, cause all the workitems that were created on Friday would expire by Monday...
Is there any way in workflow where i can specify the Holidays/Non working days.. if not, how do I achieve this? |
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| Ratan |
| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:04 am Post subject: |
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You cant do it directly in WF. You can ofccourse specify the expiration time from container, in which you can calculate your holidays and weekends.
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| workflowdude |
| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:27 am Post subject: |
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How do you do that?
can you please elaborate on this? |
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| vennela |
| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:49 am Post subject: |
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A -> B -> C
B should expire after 2 biz days.
Your process should be
A -. TCalc -> B -> C
After A is finished TCalc is a UPES activity. Get the creation time of TCalc, calculate the time for 2 biz days in seconds. Supply that as a data member in the output container of the TCalc UPES activity.
B should be defined in such a way that it expires after the time interval From container.
In the Exit tab of an activity, in the expiration block, From container is the third one. Specify the container member in which you calculated the time in the TCalc activity. |
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| workflowdude |
| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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Oh you mean UPES activity sending a message on a queue and some component calculating the time and sending it back on the input queue??
Please clarify a bit more.
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| jmac |
| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:52 am Post subject: |
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Activity A runs
TCalc is a UPES activity that runs and in its input container it has the data needed to calculate the "business Date" of the expiration/notification.
TCalc sets the "Business Date" into its Output container.
Activity B is modeled to get the Expiration/Notification "From Container"
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| workflowdude |
| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 10:12 am Post subject: |
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| So who performs the calculation in the TCalc UPES activity? |
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| jmac |
| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:17 am Post subject: |
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The code you write for this UPES!
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| workflowdude |
| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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| and thats outside workflow in a component listening to the UPES Queue...right? |
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| vennela |
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| jmac |
| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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Yes
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| workflowdude |
| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| That means that If I have to change the expiration time for my activities, i have to go and change the component code... thats kindda buidling a dependency.. I was thinking if it was any way to do it through workflow, so that it can easily be changed in the future... |
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| jmac |
| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, but I believe that is the only way it can be done
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