Does deadline monitoring branch end when task is completed?

[Kjetil Kilhavn]

Computers are stupid, they only do what you tell them to do. So unless
you have designed your workflow such that the "Latest End" branch
becomes obsolete when the activity is carried out it won't happen.

If possible you can set up two parallell branches there with only 1
required to finish the branch. Set up a "Wait for event" step in the
other parallell branch and publish that event when the activity step has
been completed.

Going *way* off-topic... I'm sure Microsoft will soon announce that
Windows 2008 will make computers do what you want them to. What will
actually happen is that the computers will do what Microsoft wants you
to want them to do, and that won't be what I want them to do in most
cases. Nothing new in other words... A real improvement would be an
animated "Rifle" cursor set, so it would be possible to shoot that
stupid office assistant that insists on popping up until you disable it.
-- 
Kjetil Kilhavn, Statoil KTJ IT BKS


-----Original Message-----
From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Raymond.Bates at immi.gov.au
Sent: 1. september 2005 06:47
To: sap-wug at mit.edu
Subject: Does deadline monitoring branch end when task is completed?


Hi Workflowers,

One of our workflow tasks has deadline monitoring where it sends out a
reminder message if it has not been executed within a week (Latest End)
and then waits a week and sends out another message.
It came to our attention that the task was completed 2 days before the
Latest End branch was to send out a second reminder message.  However
the tasks in this Latest End branch still continued to process and  the
second message was sent out.  I thought that the remaining tasks in the
Latest End branch would have be terminated when the task that initiated
the branch was completed.  Can anyone shed any light on whether the
branch continues on when the task that initiated it completes.

Thanks,
Raymond Bates


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