Using timers in BPM 11g Part 2

Scenario:

A typical batch style process -
The process starts at 10 am and writes out a report every hour.
It ends 6 hours later at 4 pm.

Now for testing purposes I will start at 2:40 pm, write a report every 1 minute and then end 5 minutes later - but you can extrapolate as required.

The process is as follows -



Start is set to 14:40



The variable v_endTimeString will be set to startTime (i.e. 14:40) + 5 minutes.
I use this later for comparison purposes. I'm not the XPath guru so I essentially
store the end date as a String in the format YYYYMMDDHHMM and then exit the reporting loop when currentDateTime > v_endTimeString.








Wait 1 minute configured as follows -




The COB? (Close Of Business) condition for "Still within business hours" is set as follows -



xp20:format-dateTime(string(xp20:current-dateTime()), '[Y0001][M01][D01][H01][m01]') < bpmn:getDataObject('v_endTimeString')

Deploy and test

The output report should contain 5 entries for the time period 14:40 - 14:45.