ActiveVOS Designer BPEL for People User’s Guide

Creating Custom Escalation Actions

In a task definition, you can specify one or more deadlines by which a task must be started and also one or more deadlines by which a task must be completed. If a particular start date or completion date is missed, you can trigger a particular action to occur.

There are several actions that are available, as described in About Task Deadlines and Escalations.

In addition, you can create and deploy a BPEL process to provide your own custom action.

To create the custom notification process:

Select File>New>Bpel Process.
Name the file and click next.
In the BPEL templates page, select Custom B4P Notification.

A process is started for you, with the receive already implemented. You can delete the empty activity and add the programming logic you wish.

The interface that is implemented is:

<portType name="IAeTaskCustomNotificationService">

 <operation name="processCustomNotification">

  <input message="aeb4pnw:processCustomNotificationRequest" />

 </operation>

</portType>

Adding the Service to the Start or Completion Deadline Property

Once you have created and deployed your BPEL process, you can select process invocation, as described in Invoking a Process When a Task Deadline Occurs.