Selective Deadline Transition for an Activity

Hi,
Can we define whether the due transition deadline for an instance needs to be set or not based on an instance variable? For ex., we have a due transition for a paticular activity and once the time expires an automatic activity is fired and then the instance comes back to the same activity. This process needs to be done only when the instance variable= xyz. But when the instance variable is some other value then the due transition deadline should not be set only. Hence the instance will remain at that activity only.
The way I could think of is to have 2 same activities, one with due transition and another one without it, and we have a conditional transition based on the instance variable. This would satisfy the functionality, but would not be the right way of designing it as we would have 2 activities(with different activity ids) for the same screens.
Is there a possiblity of defining the a conditional due transition, which would allow the due transition to be activated only when a condition is met?

Hi,
I'd do the same thing (model it with two activities) and cannot think of a better way.
You could do this with only one activity with the Due transition set to a variable (e.g. "timeIntervalToWait" would be an Interval variable).  If "xyz" is false, you could set the timeToWait interval variable to some unreachable time period (e.g. '5y' (5 years)).  If it's true, you could set it to the time interval you actually want like '2d' (2 days).  The thing I don't like about this is that the end user sees the time interval in the Workspace.  Up to you, but I'd rather have a process with two activities (one with the Due transition and one without) than to potentially confuse the end user with an unreachable deadline 5 years from now.
If you put the interactive activity in a Subflow and then have the Due transition coming out of the Subflow activity (set to some unreachable time or the actual time interval based on the value of xyz) you'd have made it worse.  Then the end user would not see the deadline if the time is meant to be unreachable (that's good), but unfortunately also would not see the deadline if the time interval is reachable (that's bad).
Hope this helps,
Dan
Edited by: Daniel Atwood on Apr 29, 2009 6:13 AM

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