Wait

ActiveVOS Designer User’s Guide

Wait

The wait activity tells the business process to wait for a given time period or until a certain time has passed.

The wait expression conforms to an expression, where the value is an XML schema type of dateTime, date, or duration.

Required and optional properties for Wait
Required Properties	Optional Properties
Wait Expression	Name. See Selecting Activity Labels
Wait Type	Join Condition. See Creating a Join Condition for an Incoming Link
	Suppress Join Failure. See Process Properties
	Comment. See Adding Comments to a Process
	Documentation. See Adding Documentation to a Process
	Setting Visual Properties and Using Your Own Library of Images
	Execution State. See Viewing the Execution State of an Activity or Link
	Extension Attributes and Extension Elements. See Declaring Extension Elements and Attributes.

To build a wait activity:

From the Event palette, drag a wait activity to the Process Editor canvas.
In the Properties view, select a Wait Type: Duration or Deadline.
Click the Dialog (...) Button next to Wait Expression.
In the Expression box, specify one of the following:

For a deadline, specify a date and time, such as '2010-12-12T12:00'. Be sure to include the single quotes.
For a duration, specify a time, such as 'P1DT10S'. Be sure to include the single quotes.

Note: In addition to the few examples below for deadline and duration expressions, you can see the examples given in the XML schema specification.

See the following:

XML Syntax

<wait (for="duration-expr" | until="deadline-expr")standard-attributes>

  standard-elements

</wait>

Examples

A duration of one second:

<wait for="'PT1S'"/>

A duration of 1 year, 2 months, 3 days, 10 hours, and 30 minutes:

<wait for= "‘P1Y2M3DT10H30M’ "/>

A deadline with a date and time:

<wait until="’2010-12-12T12:00’"/>

The following illustration shows an example of using a wait activity.

Wait example