Custom Workflow Step - Wait

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
May 26, 2022
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We are contemplating a custom workflow step that will "wait x number of business days".

Is it possible to create a workflow step to "block" the workflow like this? Or would I merely need to create a loop and sleep in the loop?

What happens when the server is restarted? Would the component start over? Will I need to save state so, it doesn't restart the wait from the beginning?

I recognize that this can be handled in different ways but, I'm interested in encapsulating this function into a custom component for design reasons.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

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Mayank_Gandhi

Adobe Employee

@crich2784 I think you're on right track, you will need to preserve a state. I would have taken the server timestamp and kept payload and data and then initiated a WF modal with assign task using a cron job, the cron should run daily and should put all the pending tasks to assign task workflow after x days post the last timestamp that was preserved.

crich2784Author

@mayank_gandhi I have this working pretty well but, I have one major flaw.

My component basically does a while(true) loop until it is time to end. Now, when I try to terminate the process or step, the system hangs. My component is not giving the system time to terminate. It's blocking everything. How can I make this step wait and wakeup. Maybe this is what you were talking about with the cron job - I really don't understand. Seems like I should be able to end the component but, not allow the workflow to continue until I'm ready? This would be similar to the Assign Task step - I can terminate a process even when it's on the Assign Task step.

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