CSSDK settimeout

tdonalds

I'd like to set an absolute timeout on a dummy task using CSSDK. I'm retreiving the date from the instantiation screen from the user. Unfortunately, I'm seeming to only be successful setting time. I need to set both the time and the date. Here's a snippet of the code I have:

 

String tsReleaseDate = task.getVariable("ReleaseDate").toString();

String[] rDate = tsReleaseDate.split("-");

 

int year=Integer.parseInt(rDate[0]);

int month=Integer.parseInt(rDate[1])-1;

int date=Integer.parseInt(rDate[2]);

 

Date releaseDate = new Date();

 

releaseDate.setYear(year);

releaseDate.setMonth(month);

releaseDate.setDate(date);

releaseDate.setHours(18);

releaseDate.setMinutes(00);

releaseDate.setSeconds(00);

 

for (CSTask workflowTask: workflowTasks){

 

if(workflowTask.getKindName() == "dummytask"){

 

workflowTask.setTimeout(releaseDate);

 

}

 

This isn't working! My release date should be 120920150600, but its being set to Sun Jul 04 19:01:39. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Garth McMillan

We use essentially the same set up and it works for us. The only differences to yours (apart from differences in how I contruct the the date**) are:

 

• We use a "User Task" instead of a "Dummy Task".
• The default properties of our "Timeout Link" is "Relative", not "Absolute". I don't explicately change the type, but I do provide a full date to it, even though it is set to "Relative".

I don't think either of those are relevant to your problem, but who knows...

 

** My thoughts would be to check your time zone information. Either confirm your JVM is running under the correct zone (I've seen some instances where it isn't) or explicity construct your date object with a time zone. You probably want to look into using the SimpleDateFormat class to construct your date object from your string parts if you want to try that.