Re: [Openflow-dev] auto time alert on workflow activities

[Elena S. <ele...@gm...>]

Thanks Daniele,

> cron jobs are the only solution that comes to my mind. I'm not too
confident
> with cron... still the following can be some guidelines to solving your
> problem.
>
> Set your cron in an automatic activity before the activity you want to
> monitor (with an external method, I presume). Let your cron trigger an
http
> request to your script of choice (you might want to trigger a given
> transition with this script so that the workitem goes somewhere you want
it
> to go upon reaching its deadline).

I guess some people must have done this already, as a timer is an essential
tool for workflows.
Could anybody show an example of this?

-- Thanks a lot for your help, Elena