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Chapter 6 Working with Events : Rescheduling Timer Events

Rescheduling Timer Events
You can reschedule the timeouts of timer events on user tasks (including the work item deadline). This can be achieved by selecting timers to reschedule from a non-cancelling signal event on the same user task.
A catch signal event attached to a user task, that is configured as Continue task when signal is caught allows selection of timer events to reschedule one of the following:
When a timer event is selected for reschedule in any one of the above ways then the user must define a reschedule timer script on the timer event's General properties tab.
In the example below, the process has a user task with two timers, Deadline and Nudge. When "Unexpected Delay" is triggered, the Allow_User_More_Time signal is thrown and this explicitly reschedules the Deadline timer by adding an extra day to the current Deadline timeout.
The Properties page for Catch: Allow User More Time looks like this:
The Properties page for Deadline looks like this:

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