Timer events don't seem to work. about spiff-arena HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi @ManuelLevi thanks for the reports. We just merged in support for cycle timer start events so do appreciate checking them out. The R5/PT10S syntax needs to be quoted, so "R5/PT10S" - this is to allow the value to be driven from any valid Python expression. I would agree that the examples in the properties panel need to better illustrate this, and we probably shouldn't link to the camunda docs.

In SpiffArena timers are driven by the background processor, so in case it helps make sure SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_RUN_BACKGROUND_SCHEDULER is set to "true" and you can configure SPIFFWORKFLOW_BACKEND_BACKGROUND_SCHEDULER_NOT_STARTED_POLLING_INTERVAL_IN_SECONDS as desired.

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Also in case it helps, here is a sample bpmn file that creates a new instance every 30 seconds* indefinitely.

* depends on the polling interval configured above

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Hi @jbirddog

I've used the quoted version and it works. I would say the "issue" then is lack of clarity in the interface.

Solving it:
I've tried to find the "R5/PT10S" in this organization with org:sartography R5/PT10S, but github is not finding that code.
If I knew, I could make a pull request with a clear message about this.

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I am not very familiar with this part of the code, but it looks like the string is here:

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Abpmn-io%2Fbpmn-js-properties-panel%20R5%2FPT10S&type=code

How exactly it should be modified just for us is unclear to me without digging into it in detail.

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Oh I see, it's using the code directly from bpmn.io, that makes sense!

The functionality seems to be working, so I'll close the issue now.

Thank you @jbirddog :)

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