Repeated deadline reminder... Looking for repeated deadline.

Question

Hi,
I have already created a latest end modeled deadline to send out a reminder in 1 hour. I was thinking that, the modeled deadline would send the reminder every one hour. But the reminder gets sent only once. The client wants repeated reminders.
I saw somewhere that, we can use a loop step, I have 3 questions bhere:
-How do we wait for the specified time as in the modeled deadline?
-How do we place the loop?
-How can we determine whether the user decision step (for which the deadline reminder is sent out) is still valid?
Please let me know, incase you have questions.
Thanks,
Sukumar.

Answer 1

You will need a loop. Here is what you can do:
1- Create a 2-branch fork (one for the task and one for the reminder) with only 1 branch needed to complete the fork
2- Put the task in one branch (you don't need to set the deadline monitoring there)
3- Create a loop in the other branch:
3a- The terminating event of the loop is whether the task has been executed (you can create a flag or something that gets set after the task is actually executed)
3b- The first step in the loop is to wait for 1 minute, 1 hour, 1 day (up to you) - to do that, use a do-nothing task and set the desired start date/time to 1 hour, 1 day, etc. You can create your own task (create a method that does nothing and create a task that calls it) or you can use some standard tasks (for example TS04200011)
3c- The second step in the loop is to send the reminder (you might want to check for the flag before sending the reminder
This is a simplified explanation. You need to take care of the details of actually creating container elements, etc.
Regards,
Abdullah Azzouni