Who to manage TimeOut in BPM ?

[Former Member]

Hi Xi Experts,

In SAP WorkFlow, its possible to manage timeout in WorkItem.

I search in IR and ID on BPM design or configuration with no success . Does XI offers a simple way for this ?.

Thanks a lot for your responses.

Etienne

[MichalKrawczyk · Accepted solution]

hi,

in the BPM you can put a timeout branch

which will be executed after the specified time

open the block step and add (right click) a

timepout branch

Regards,

michal

[henrique_pinto · Accepted solution]

Yep,

it's called deadline.

You can put all the steps you want to be under this timeout condition into a Block Step and then you add a deadline branch to it. In this branch, you configure the amount of time to wait (least granularity in minutes).

We've performed with success a workaround to use timeouts with intervals less than a minute. Use a fork step. In one branch, put the steps (as you would in block step). In the other, use a transformation step and in it you use a mapping to a dummy message with a Thread.sleep() method in a UDF. With this, you can set any amount of time you want.

It was not recommended by Tobias Breyer (for those who don't know, he's the BPE developer, at SAP AG) since fork step does not execute the branches with time paralelism but with logical paralelism (meaning that they'll not necessarily be triggered at the same time). But for practical purposes, it works just fine.

Regards,

henrique.

[MichalKrawczyk · Accepted solution]

>>>it's called deadline.

I know but it's a timeout branch in terms or workflow

Regards,

michal

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Michal,

Thanks a lot.

Etienne

[MichalKrawczyk · Accepted solution]

no problem

Regards,

michal

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Enrique,

Very very interresting !

Thanks a lot.

Etienne

[henrique_pinto · Accepted solution]

> >>>it's called deadline.

>

> I know but it's a timeout branch in terms or workflow

>

>

> Regards,

> michal

Oh,

sorry, my response was not for you.

I was just saying that in XI ccBPM what she wanted is called deadline.

Regards,

Henrique.

[henrique_pinto · Accepted solution]

Hi Etienne,

no problem at all.

Regards,

Henrique.

[Former Member]

Hi Etienne,

in BPM there ist a step type, called wait step.

Unfortunatly I got no online XI.

But have a look at this step type, maybe it hepls you with your problem.

On the other hand, in your integration repository, goto software component SAP BASIS.

Maybe there is an example for your problem.

Regards Mario

[Former Member]

Hi Mario,

Thank you.

Best Regards

Etienne