Business calendars in WID 6.1.2
Published July 29th, 2008 in Websphere Process Server / Integration Developer
Today I want to introduce an exciting new feature of WID 6.1.2 that I came across while reading a developer works article http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0807_fasbinder1/0807_fasbinder.html?S_TACT=105AGX01&S_CMP=HP&ca=drs- .
In WebSphere Integration Developer 6.1.2 we have the option to create a business calendar which is very crucial when we deal with human tasks. I haven’t upgraded to WID 6.1.2 yet. However looking into the pictures in that article it looks really great. It was a feature that was really missing in the earlier versions of WID.
In my current project we had a requirement to set up an escalation after 8 business hours. When we calculate the business hours we had to exclude Saturdays, Sundays and any other holidays in US. Also our escalation time should not include anything other than the normal business hours. For us we ended up in writing our own business calendar to meet our requirements.
I am wondering how IBM can miss such an important feature in earlier versions of WID. Anyways thanks IBM for adding it now.
I did not see WID 6.1.2 yet, so I am wondering is there any way to set up a time zone also for different tasks or users. This is extremely important when the business works on different geographies and time zones. If it is not already there, that is something IBM should consider in the coming versions.
Also is there any way to modify the calendar without a deployment something like a Business Rule Manager? I feel WPS should have something like that as its does not make any sense for a new deployment just because a new unexpected holiday is coming or we missed to count a holiday at the time of deployment. Let the business users manage the holidays and business timings. Yeah?
Also I feel a date picker for setting the time/date values in WID will be a good addition.
Let me upgrade to the newer version and see what the other new exciting features in WID are.
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3 Responses to “Business calendars in WID 6.1.2”
- 1 Pingback on Aug 24th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
I get a little nervous when I see a x.x.N release come out with a feature as large as this. I expect the feature to behave well in a straightforward use case, but I would expect there to be defects once you go beyond the simple.
Good luck with it, hopefully it won’t be like Event Sequencing.
-dan
Seems like this new release introduces a lot of new features to WID. (Might be more than the new features in WID 6.1). As you said if use these new features for any complex purposes, we may end up in a series of bugs. Unless until a live project start using WID 6.1.2, nobody will get to know about all the hidden bugs.