Specific Period – If the expiration is set to Specific Period, set
the amount of time until work item expiration by entering values in Days,
Hours, Minutes, and Seconds fields. You can manually enter the values or click
the up and down arrows to fill out the fields. Make sure that at least one of
the four fields should be filled out.
The Seconds value must be at least 15 seconds. Setting an expiration
period less than 60 seconds will cause delay in the actual work item expiration
period because, by default, the Control Manager checks for expired work items
every 60 seconds. The expiration polling interval can be reduced by modifying
the value of the control.expiredWorkItem.interval setting in
<EPX>\bin\config.properties (in the Control Manager Properties section),
but before doing so you should consider the impact that this change will have
on the performance of your system.
Dynamic Date - If the expiration is set to Dynamic Date, you will
need to provide the following:
- Work Item Key – The key you will use to get the actual send date and/or time during runtime. For example, type in "DynamicExpiration.Date" if the expiration date is designated by the Date field of the DynamicExpiration work item type in the work item.
Date Format – The default format is MM dd yyyy HH:mm. Select your
desired date format from the Date Format dropdown list or enter values in the
combo box.
Format Test – Contains the current date and/or time formatted
using the format selected in the Date Format field. Each time a new format is
selected, this value is updated to reflect the newly selected format. Refer to
"Appendix," on page 16 for the available date formats and time zones.
Instead of setting the expiration date by specifying a work item key, a
send action class can be used to set that date. Click the Custom Action tab and
enter the fully qualified class name for the custom code in the Send Action
Class field.
After filling out the necessary fields,
proceed to the next step.