Add Timeout Functionality to Desktop Designer

[cbridges]

I understand that Server and Designer + Scheduler versions have the option to "cancel workflows running longer than X”.

I'd like to see that functionality in the desktop edition as well.

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[mautaznesh]

Yes to this.

I'm trying to make a version of this in a flow myself and its not possible because the Throttle tool isn't supported by e2/AMP. So, the part of a flow that may need to be timed out will come before the Timer I made and never actually start counting.

[Tomas_Vyskocil]

This should be settable on workflow level, so that each separate workflow even in Gallery, can get killed after different time-out.

[Briann]

This would be very useful. For the the server we manage, some jobs need to run for an couple hours before failing. Other workflows should be killed if they take more than 5 min. 

Lack of this feature makes it difficult to manage hundreds of workflows and maintain high workflow completion. We end up wasting hundreds of hours of compute cycles on jobs that should be killed in < 5 mins. Most often, errors are caused by data pulls errors due to congestion on system or maintenance windows. Resolution is often just killing job, then trying again.

As an alternative, can you add feature to Input Tool to timeout if data pull takes too long? Or retry after so many seconds?

Thanks