Step delay/wait for a dynamically set period

[Andrew_Fitt]

I have a need to “park” a process at/before a task for a certain amount of time (up to 2-3 days) but do not wish to hold a thread open on the Integration Server as there maybe as many as 50,000 executions of the process model per day. (so sleeping the thread is not an option)

I am seeking suggestions. So far I can think of a ticker (using the scheduler) and correlation within the model.

[Andrew_Fitt]

Looks like Alex already posted an answer pre-emptively

This is how you do it:

1. Have some datetime business data field, for example “checkAgeDateTime”
2. Initialize this field in the “Queued” event to set the start datetime for your event
3. Have Date/Time event to trigger when reaching “checkAgeDateTime” in the action of this event check your age and set priority accordingly
4. Update “checkAgeTime” to advance 10 hours (or whatever). This will trigger event again when “checkAgeTime” is reached.

Alex

[ngdias]

@Andrew Fitt

Looks like Alex already posted an answer pre-emptively

This is how you do it:

1. Have some datetime business data field, for example “checkAgeDateTime”
2. Initialize this field in the “Queued” event to set the start datetime for your event
3. Have Date/Time event to trigger when reaching “checkAgeDateTime” in the action of this event check your age and set priority accordingly
4. Update “checkAgeTime” to advance 10 hours (or whatever). This will trigger event again when “checkAgeTime” is reached.

Alex

Hello Andrew, I’m facing a similar situation where I need to stop a process step for 15 minutes before continuing. After that it follows its path.

Can you please provide me with a little more insight on you approach?

Regards,
Nuno Dias