Triggering BPM Process on regular intervals.

Hi All,
Can i make a BPM Process to trigger on regular intervals. We want a BPM process to triggger on hourly basis.
Is it possible in BPM suite to do this.
Please share your thoughts.
Thanks
Parker.

Hello Vikram Bailur,
How can I define the scheduled timer start event by expression?
The timer start event is usally described as below.
The timer start event triggers the creation of a process instance based on a specific time condition. You can> configure the timer start event to trigger a process instance based on the following: (1) A specific date and time. For example, a process could be triggered on December 31, at 11:59 PM.
(2) A recurring interval. For example, a process could be triggered every 10 hours, 5 minutes, 32 seconds.
In case of the above item (1), I want to define the scheduled expression such as:
evey Friday at 11:00 PM
the end of this week
the end of this month at 11:00 PM
I have searched the proper functions but there are no them like the following convenience functions in Oracle SQL/PLSQL as below.
select next_day(sysdate,'Friday') from dual; '---returns date of the next friday
select last_day(sysdate) from dual; '---returns the last day of this month
How can do it?
Akira

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[EXCEPTION]
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Thanks for your answer. As per note : "Web service endpoints with incorrect security settings or service calls without provided credentials will result in an error message telling that "Guest, is not allowed to start a process".
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                              <xsd:element name="initiator" nillable="true"
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                              <xsd:element name="isAccountantEntered" nillable="true"
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                              <xsd:element name="initiator" type="xsd:string" />
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                              <xsd:element name="tasktext" type="xsd:string" />
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at
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Thanks for your information.
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BPM server is not open to the internet but only intranet, so i will copy the WSDL code for you,
will be glad if you can help;
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<xsd:element name="Category_Text" type="xsd:string" />
<xsd:element name="User" type="xsd:string" />
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<xsd:element name="Details" type="tns:DetailsType" />
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- <wsdl:message name="NewOperationRequest">
<wsdl:part element="tns:NewOperation" name="parameters" />
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- <wsdl:portType name="StartCatAppSI">
- <wsdl:operation name="NewOperation">
<wsdl:input message="tns:NewOperationRequest" />
</wsdl:operation>
</wsdl:portType>
- <wsdl:binding name="StartCatAppSISOAP" type="tns:StartCatAppSI">
<soap:binding style="document" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" />
- <wsdl:operation name="NewOperation">
<soap:operation soapAction="http://www.koczer.com/StartCatAppSI/NewOperation" />
- <wsdl:input>
<soap:body use="literal" />
</wsdl:input>
</wsdl:operation>
</wsdl:binding>
- <wsdl:service name="StartCatAppSI">
- <wsdl:port binding="tns:StartCatAppSISOAP" name="StartCatAppSISOAP">
<soap:address location="http://zerbpmts.koczer.local:50000/bpm/demosapcom/dccategoryappbpm/StartCatAppSI" />
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</wsdl:service>
</wsdl:definitions>

Trigger BPM Process

Hello
Is there any documentation available as to what are the different ways a BPM Process can be triggered ( like web service, WD4A, VC, etc .. ?
I am triggering teh Process through configuration management and that looks very techie when giving a demo to a client.
Appreciate your help.
Thanks
Bhavin

Hi Bhavin,
You may define a service interface for the start event of your process using whic you can trigger the process through a WS. For detailed steps on how to do it, refer to my blog https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/15395. [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken]
Also refer to the BPM Troubleshooting Guide for the standard documentation links for most common issues.
Hope this helps!!
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