Drools Flow - define deadline of human work item in declarative fashion

Question

We are evaluating the drools flow with process and sub process flows. One of the features we are looking set up the deadlines for Human task during the assignment through declarative similar to JBPM <Timer duedate ="50 minutes" />

Please provide expert input on how to acheive the dead lines

Answer 1

A quick look at the drools flow documentation on human tasks shows that a human task does have a Timers property. So you could create a 'deadline' timer and trigger an event according to the action to be taken if the task is not completed after the deadline.