task timeout

Paul

I am trying to have workflow task(s) timeout after a certain time period and have the notification sent again. In my workflow I have the following code that doesn't want to work.

<externaltask
name="Notification of Review"
owner="__TAG__('reviewer');"
description='Please review the content finished by $creatorname.'>

<areavpath v='$assignment_vpath'/>
<successors>
<successorset description="Review">
<succ v="Review and Approval of Content"/>
</successorset>
</successors>
__INSERT__(&get_cmd("intranet_send_email.ipl", "creator"));
<activation>
<or>
<pred v="Create Content"/>
<pred v="Make Changes"/>
</or>
</activation>

</externaltask>
<usertask
name="Review and Approval of Content"
owner='$reviewer'
description='Please review the content finished by $creatorname.'
readonly='t'>
<areavpath v='$assignment_vpath'/>
<successors>
<successorset description='Approve'>
<succ v='Submit'/>
</successorset>
<successorset description='Reject'>
<succ v='Notification that Reviewer has Rejected the Content'/>
</successorset>
</successors>
<activation>
<pred v="Notification of Review"/>
</activation>
</usertask>
<externaltask
name="Notification that Reviewer has Rejected the Content"
owner="$creator"
description='Your changes have been rejected by $reviewername. Please make the necessary fixes.'>
<areavpath v='$assignment_vpath'/>
<successors>
<successorset description="Done">
<succ v="Make Changes"/>
</successorset>
</successors>
$email_notify

<activation>
<or>
<pred v="Review and Approval of Content"/>
<pred v="Make Changes"/>
</or>
</activation>
</externaltask>


<usertask
name="Make Changes"
owner='$creator'
description='Please make the changes by $reviewername'>
<areavpath v='$assignment_vpath'/>
<successors>
<successorset description='Done'>
<succ v='Notification of Review'/>
</successorset>
</successors>
<activation>
<pred v="Notification that Reviewer has Rejected the Content"/>
</activation>

<timeout v="+002400">
<succ v="Notification that Reviewer has Rejected the Content" />
</timeout>


</usertask>

Adam Stoller

<usertask name="Make Changes"
          owner='$creator'
          description='Please make the changes by $reviewername'>
  <areavpath v='$assignment_vpath'/>
  <successors>
    <successorset description='Done'>
      <succ v='Notification of Review'/>
    </successorset>
  </successors>
  <activation>
    <pred v="Notification that Reviewer has Rejected the Content"/>
  </activation>
  <timeout v="+002400">
    <succ v="Notification that Reviewer has Rejected the Content" />
  </timeout>
</usertask>

If you look at the iwwf.dtd (and probably the documentation, somewhere) - you will see that the timeout element for usertask's should come before the activation element. Fix that and your timeout should work.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com