Workflow-eventdelivery-timeout: Stsadm property (Windows SharePoint Services)
Updated: September 13, 2007
Applies To: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Updated: 2007-09-13
Description
Specifies the time in which a workflow job must run without the job timing out. If the workflow job does time out, it gets put back in the queue to be run again.
Syntax
stsadm -o setproperty
-propertyname workflow-eventdelivery-timeout
-propertyvalue <A valid integer>
[-url] <http://server_name>
The syntax for the getproperty operation is:
stsadm -o getproperty
propertyname workflow-eventdelivery-timeout
[-url] <http://server_name>
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You can substitute -pn for -propertyname and -pv for -propertyvalue. |
Values
The following table shows possible values.
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propertyname |
Gets or sets the name of the property. |
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propertyvalue |
A valid integer. For example, if the value is set to 5, the workflow job must run within 5 minutes are the workflow job will time out. Any workflow job that does time out is placed back in the queue to run again. The default value is 5.
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url |
Typically, a path to the URL of the Web application, in the form http://server_name. |
Examples
To set the timeout value of a workflow job to 10 minutes, use the following syntax:
stsadm -o setproperty -pn workflow-eventdelivery-timeout -pv "10"
To view the current setting of the workflow-eventdelivery-timeout property, use the following syntax:
stsadm -o getproperty -pn workflow-eventdelivery-timeout

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