Human tasks on working days

Question

How can I do to make Human task's expiration days count only working days?

Answer 1

Here's a bit of Java code to generate the string for 8 hour expirations only on days of M-F. It assumes a BPEL variable named strExpirationMinutes of type string has been created. You can pass the variable in to the human task as a parameter and directly assign it via XPath on the task configuration screen.
String tmp = "PT";
int iMins = 0;
int hrs8 = 60*8;
int hrs23 = 60*23;
int hrs24 = 60*24;
java.util.Calendar calNow = java.util.Calendar.getInstance();
int hours = calNow.get( java.util.Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY );
int minutes = calNow.get( java.util.Calendar.MINUTE );
int dow = calNow.get( java.util.Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK );
// if a M-T
if (dow>=2 && dow<=5) {   
// if starting before 8 am - add 8 hours plus the interval between now and 8 am
if (hours<8) {   
iMins = (60-minutes) + ( (8-hours-1)*60 )+ hrs8;
// if starting between 8 am and 9 am - just add 8 hours
} else if (hours==8 || ( hours==9 && minutes==0) ) {   
iMins = hrs8;
// if starting between 9 am and 5 pm - just add 23 hours
} else if (hours>=9 && (hours<17 || (hours==17 && minutes==0)) ) {   
iMins = hrs23;
// if starting after 5 pm - add 8 hours plus the interval between now and 8 am
} else {   
iMins = (60-minutes) + ( (24-hours-1)*60 ) + hrs8 + hrs8;
// if Fri
} else if (dow==6) {   
// if starting before 8 am - add 8 hours plus the interval between now and 8 am
if (hours<8) {   
iMins = (60-minutes) + ( (8-hours-1)*60 )+ hrs8;
// if starting between 8 am and 9 am - just add 8 hours
} else if (hours==8 || ( hours==9 && minutes==0) ) {   
iMins = hrs8;
// if starting between 9 am and 5 pm - add 23 hours plus the two we days
} else if (hours>=9 && (hours<17 || (hours==17 && minutes==0)) ) {   
iMins = hrs23 + hrs24 + hrs24;
// if starting after 5 pm - add 8 hours duration plus the interval between
// now and 8 am saturday, plus the 2 we days
} else {   
iMins = (60-minutes) + ( (24-hours-1)*60 ) + hrs8 + hrs8 + hrs24 + hrs24;
// if Sat
} else if (dow==7) {   
// add 8 hrs duration, plus the time between now and midnight sat, plus
// all of sunday, plus 8 hrs for monday before 8 am
iMins = (60-minutes) + ( (24-hours-1)*60 ) + hrs8 + hrs8 + hrs24;
// if Sun
} else {   
// add 8 hrs duration, plus the time between now and midnight sun, plus
// 8 hrs for monday before 8 am
iMins = (60-minutes) + ( (24-hours-1)*60 ) + hrs8 + hrs8;
// finish build the time string
tmp = tmp + iMins + "M";
// save the string to bpel proc and audit
setVariableData("strExpirationMinutes", tmp);
addAuditTrailEntry("strExpirationMinutes:",tmp);