Due date Notifiaction of Action.

Question

Hi All,
I am having a scenario where an action has to keep on hold for certain time and if that action is still on hold even after given time
a notifiaction mail has to send the user saying request has to be completed.
Can you please tell me how can i change dead line of the notification.
i followed following threads.
[http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwce10/helpdata/en/44/9a3276a5726573e10000000a11466f/content.htm]
but i am getting null for notification instance.
I will perform an action (Action1) to hold the action(Action2)
Action1->Action2(Hold)
Where should i write the code for changing the deadline.
Please help me regarding this.
Regards,
Rajesh N
Edited by: RAJESH NIMMAKAYALA on Aug 13, 2009 12:39 PM

Answer 1

Hi Rajesh,
First of all go thru this thread.
Action Due Date Problem
I have installed the patch and tried again. It's working there after.
Code For your reference:-
Write the code on execute method of Action2. Make it sure Due date is assigned to action2 with defualt values (in minutes).
String processID,currentActionID;
IUser user = UMFactory.getUserFactory().getUser(executionContext.getInitiator());
userContext = GPContextFactory.getContextManager().createUserContext(user);
processID = executionContext.getProcessId();
currentActionID=executionContext.getTaskId();
IGPActionInstance currentAction = GPProcessFactory.getRuntimeManager().getActionInstance(processID, currentActionID, userContext);
IGPDuration duration = GPNotificationFactory.createDuration(10,IGPDuration.DURATION_MINUTE  );  // Duration is set for 10 minutes
IGPDeadline deadline = GPNotificationFactory.createDeadline( IGPDeadline.DEADLINE_FROM_ACTION_START,duration, currentAction.getActualStartDate().getTime(),0); // New Deadline is created for 10 minutes from action start
IGPNotificationManager notificationManager = GPProcessFactory.getNotificationManager();
Enumeration notifications = currentAction.getNotificationInstances();
IGPNotificationInstance notification = currentAction.getDueDateNotification();
             if(notifications.hasMoreElements())
                       while (notifications.hasMoreElements())
                            notification = (IGPNotificationInstance) notifications.nextElement();
                             if(notification.isDueDateNotification())
                               String processInstanceID = notification.getProcessInstanceID();
                                 String notifID = notification.getNotificationID();
                                 notificationManager.updateNotification(processID, currentActionID, notification.getNotificationID(), deadline );    // This will update the deadline of Due date notification (Update the new time (10 min) with the default design view time ). For this example you need to set due date in terms of minutes.
After opening action2 you will be able to see new deadline. Hope it's helpful.
Regards,
Pratik Khandelwal