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sourabhs2166
July 2, 2023
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Unable to use the current value of constant in Start Node Appian Timer

  • July 2, 2023
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HI All,

I am trying to schedule the start node of the process model using Timer in Appian. PFB the configuration:

I am trying to schedule it at an interval of some hour. I want this hours to be configurable so used constant rather than hardcoding it.

Now the problem I am facing is whenever I change the value it only picks the old value.

Let say the current value is 15 and if I change it to 20, it will still run after interval of 15 hour. and later if I change it to 22, it will run after 20 hours.

So I am not sure why this weird behaviour. 

anyone have notices this and anyone knows the solution to this ?

Is there a way to refresh the values before using it . or something like that ?

Thanks

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stefanhelzle0001
stefanhelzle0001
Brainy
July 2, 2023

No. Timers are static and will refresh once the model is deployed.

The usual way of creating configurable scheduled processes is, to run the process at a fixed interval and add a XOR to evaluate the business rule.

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sourabhs2166Author
July 3, 2023

But then how it's picking the second last value ?

and as I want to make the schedular configurable so that if the requirement changes we should be able to change the timer interval from the constant without making changes in the process model itself. how will I be able to achieve this..

konduruc733182
konduruc733182
July 3, 2023

Hello sourabhs2166

what do you mean by this?

Are you changing the constant value?

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