NEW ISSUE: Title: Defer Activation Time is missing from HT protocol mess

Submitted on behalf of Mark Ford, Active Endpoints

From: Mark Ford [mailto:mark.ford@activevos.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 22:03
To: 'Luc Clement'
Subject: [bpel4people] NEW ISSUE: Title: Defer Activation Time is missing from HT protocol message

TARGET: WS-HT

DESCRIPTION: There is no mechanism for passing the defer activation time to a remote task. This value should be part of the humanTaskContext that is defined in Section 7.4.1 of the HT specification. It is important to include this value since the task needs to be able to enter the task management system in a CREATED state such that an admin could select the task and activate it prior to the defer activation time.

PROPOSAL: Update the humanTaskContext to include the defer activation value. This involves the following change to ws-humantask-protocol.xsd:

Existing definition -

<xsd:complexType name="tHumanTaskContext">
    <xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:element name="priority" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger"
        minOccurs="0" />
      <xsd:element name="peopleAssignments" type="tPeopleAssignments"
        minOccurs="0" />
      <xsd:element name="isSkipable" type="xsd:boolean" minOccurs="0" />
      <xsd:element name="expirationTime" type="xsd:dateTime"
        minOccurs="0" />
      <xsd:element name="attachments" type="tAttachments"
        minOccurs="0" />
    </xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>

Proposed definition -

<xsd:complexType name="tHumanTaskContext">
    <xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:element name="priority" type="xsd:nonNegativeInteger"
        minOccurs="0" />
      <xsd:element name="peopleAssignments" type="tPeopleAssignments"
        minOccurs="0" />
      <xsd:element name="isSkipable" type="xsd:boolean" minOccurs="0" />
      <xsd:element name="deferActivationTime" type="xsd:dateTime"
        minOccurs="0" />
      <xsd:element name="expirationTime" type="xsd:dateTime"
        minOccurs="0" />
      <xsd:element name="attachments" type="tAttachments"
        minOccurs="0" />
    </xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>

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