How to "Activate" a Shark process sometime in the future.

[gramani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

We have a requirement in our web app
as follows: an admin may create/instantiate a process, say today, but it
should "become active", ie. show up in the appropriate person's
worklist only say 5 days later. 

I can of course make this possible programmatically
using process vars and checking the current time etc. and I can also add
an activity in the system's swim lane (before the very first activity)
whose toolagent will be something very much like WaitProc.java in jctaprocs..
but I was wondering if these are my only options or something cleaner/simpler
exists? ..Actually my boss seems to think this would be a very basic requirement
and therefore would be supported "natively" in Shark.. which
is why i am asking..:)

Thank you for your time!
Geeta