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Changing Process Instances on the fly

jamespfaulkner — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:43:05 GMT

Hi,I'm currently evaluating workflow engines for a new project. I'm impressed with the work that's gone into Activiti but I have one requirement that has come in that I’m not sure it is actually possible with Activiti. The idea is that for some sections of our system, we need the workflow to be less

Re: Changing Process Instances on the fly

trademak — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 07:09:03 GMT

Hi James,

Adding tasks on the fly is already possible via the TaskService. But this would be standalone tasks, not attached to the process instance.
Changing a process definition on the fly is something we want to support to a certain extend, and adding and removing user tasks on the fly would be the first user case for that. So this is not supported at the moment, but we are looking at it for one of the next releases. In the meantime adding standalone tasks might be a workaround.

Best regards,

Re: Changing Process Instances on the fly

jamespfaulkner — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 08:25:04 GMT

Hi Tijs

Thanks for the response! Do you have any idea in what release this is likely to be included in. Is it something that is being actively investigated currently or is it further away in the road map? I have had a look through the Jira issues but couldn't see anything related.

Once again, thanks for your time.

Cheers,
James