Timers are a common requirement for business processes. The most common functionality is around doing something if someone doesn't respond to a task fast enough. That something might be reassigning the task or sending a nasty e-mail to the assignee's boss. Another use might be to purposefully postpone all or part of a process until a specific day and time occurs.
Timer events are events which are triggered by a defined timer. They can be used as a start event, intermediate event, or boundary event. A timer start event is used to create a process instance at given time. A timer boundary event acts as a stopwatch and alarm clock. A timer intermediate event acts as a stopwatch.
In the previous example, you added the ability for the website submission workflow to incorporate an external third party in the process. SomeCo is glad that its partners will be involved in the process, but it doesn't want them to become an unnecessary...
