Increase an activity’s priority and expire the task when it reaches a certain priority
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There is no escalation rule that will increase an activity’s (or process's) priority. This is easily achieved by writing an escalation rule that will increase the priority every time it fires.
| The screenshot below illustrates a process that has an escalation called “Increase Priority”. This fires every 10 seconds for 3 times. After the third time, the FeedbackPriority reaches “High”, and the process continues, following the “high priority” path. | ||
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| The code snippet below was taken from the escalation action and illustrates the priority increase for the activity. | ||
| Sub Main(ByVal K2 As EscalationActionContext) ' Meaning for K2.ActivityInstance.Priority ' 0 = High ' 1 = Medium ' 2 = Low ' Is this the first time this escalation fires? ' We know this is the first time because the initial ' value for the FeedbackPriority ' DataField is set to -1 If K2.ProcessInstance.DataFields.Item("FeedbackPriority").Value <> "-1" Then ' By decreasing the priority integer value every time, ' the escalation action fires, the priority ' increases from ‘Low’ to ‘Medium’ to ‘High’. If K2.ActivityInstance.Priority > 0 Then K2.ActivityInstance.Priority -= 1 End If End If ' Store the new priority property in a process-level data field K2.ProcessInstance.DataFields.Item("FeedbackPriority").Value = _ GetPriorityText(K2.ActivityInstance.Priority) If K2.ActivityInstance.Priority = 0 Then ' Once the activity has reached a "High" priority, ' let’s expire this activity and ' continue with the process along the ‘High Priority’ path K2.ExpireActivity("Feedback") ' NOTE: This escalation was set to fire at most, ' three times, meaning, fire the escalation ' after 10 seconds and then repeating it two times ' thereafter (every 10 seconds). End If End Sub Private Function GetPriorityText(ByVal Priority As Integer) Select Case Priority Case 0 : Return "High" Case 1 : Return "Medium" Case 2 : Return "Low" End Select End Function | ||
