Triggering BPM on a particular time

[Former Member]

Using a bpm we are collecting some messages and we need to send the collected messages at 11:30 AM EVERYDAY, how to do that?

[Former Member]

HI Jenni,

We faced a similar problem in one our scenarios recently, we did the following:

In the BPM run two parallel processes, one collecting IDocs in an infinite loop and the second one checking the current time against the scheduled time for execution. In the second process, write a simple message mapping (with receive IDoc on source side and a dummy message on target side) which compares the current time with scheduled time and gives output as true or false. After this transformation have a simple switch statement which has two branches, First if the mapping returns true "Close loop and end fork" otherwise "wait for specified time interval (5 mins)". Put the second process also into a for loop.

This worked for us.

Regards,

Anurag Mahendru.

[Former Member]

Hey Jenni,

As ar i understand your requirement is a TIME DEPENDENT / Scheduled bpm.

Check out this might help you out

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/08/16163ff8519a06e10000000a114084/content.htm

or check this Blog by siva (Schedule Your BPM)

/people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/05/22/schedule-your-bpm

Hope itz usefull

<b>Cheers,

*Raj*

*REWARD POINTS IF FOUND USEFULL*</b>

[Former Member]

Hey

have a look at the following

/people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/05/22/schedule-your-bpm

Thanx

Ahmad

[Former Member]

Thanks Ahamad, its looks like there is NO technique availble in the BPM itself to trigger the messages it has collected at a SCHEDULED Time!!!!

[Former Member]

Hey

unfortunately yes:(

or else you can wait for PI 7.1 and that might have this option )

i would suggest you to use the approach in the blog,its very standard and we all use this to schedule messages(not just for BPM but for any other adapters too)

Thanx

Ahmad

[Former Member]

Jenny,

If your scenario depicts collecting IDOC's from r/3 system then you can always schedule it to trigger it from r/3 side which in turn automatically the steps would be executed in BPM.

Regards

[Former Member]

There is any way to trigger them from BPM itself?