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Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

andrealuciano71 — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 01:30:19 GMT

Hi, browsing the content of Activiti Designer's plugin site (i.e. http://www.activiti.org/designer/update/), it comes out that the software has not been updated for quite a lot, but what I'm missing more is the cool feature regarding async parallel/inclusive gateways introduced in Activiti as of r

Re: Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

jbarrez — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:36:08 GMT

The current plan is to have a new Designer version by the end of this week (if all goes well).

Re: Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

andrealuciano71 — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:25:00 GMT

Can't wait 🙂

Re: Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

b_schnarr — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:38:07 GMT

I noticed that the BPM roundtrip between Designer and modeler is not working. Steps to reproduce:
1. Model a process in the Eclipse Plugin.
2. Import this model in the new Web-Modeler (5.17)
3. Export the BPMN-File
4. When you try to import the changed model in the Eclipse Plugin again, you get an error.

In addition, the information about candidate starters gets lost when exporting the BPMN-Model from the Web-Modeler.

Are those issues known? Will thos issues be fixed?

Thanks and best regards
Ben

Re: Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

trademak — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:53:58 GMT

Hi Ben,

Can you add the error message?
It would also be good to have the BPMN XML file so we can reproduce it as well.

Best regards,

Re: Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

b_schnarr — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:43:54 GMT

Hi Tijs, I modeled the following process in the Eclipse Plugin:
<code>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<definitions xmlns="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:activiti="http://activiti.org/bpmn" xmlns:bpmndi="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI" xmlnsmgdc="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC" xmlnsmgdi="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI" typeLanguage="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" expressionLanguage="http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath" targetNamespace="http://activiti.org/bpmn20">
<process id="activitiReview" name="Dokumentreview" isExecutable="true" activiti:candidateStarterGroups="activiti_profi">
    <documentation>Dieser Prozess dient dazu, Dokumente von einem Sachbearbeiter prüfen und freigeben zu lassen.</documentation>
    <endEvent id="endevent1" name="End"></endEvent>
    <startEvent id="startevent1" name="Start" activiti:initiator="initiator"></startEvent>
    <userTask id="usertask1" name="Formular ausfüllen" activiti:assignee="${initiator}" activiti:formKey="http://10.120.40.24:8080/orbeon/fr/Activiti/Dokumentfreigabe/new">
      <documentation>Bitte geben Sie den zuständigen Sachbearbeiter für die Dokumentfreigabe an.</documentation>
      <extensionElements>
        <activiti:formProperty id="approver" type="string" variable="approver" required="true"></activiti:formProperty>
        <activiti:formProperty id="duedate" type="date" variable="duedate" required="true"></activiti:formProperty>
        <activiti:formProperty id="instructions" type="string" variable="instructions"></activiti:formProperty>
      </extensionElements>
    </userTask>
    <userTask id="usertask3" name="Dokumentfreigabe von ${approver}" activiti:assignee="${initiator}" activiti:formKey="http://10.120.40.24:8080/orbeon/fr/Activiti/Freigabeergebnis/new">
      <documentation>${approver} hat Ihre Anfrage bearbeitet. Das Dokument wurde freigegeben.</documentation>
      <extensionElements>
        <activiti:formProperty id="approver" type="string" variable="approver"></activiti:formProperty>
        <activiti:formProperty id="duedate" type="date" variable="duedate"></activiti:formProperty>
        <activiti:formProperty id="instructions" type="string" variable="instructions"></activiti:formProperty>
        <activiti:formProperty id="approved" type="string" variable="approved"></activiti:formProperty>
        <activiti:formProperty id="motivation" type="string" variable="motivation"></activiti:formProperty>
      </extensionElements>
    </userTask>
    <sequenceFlow id="flow1" sourceRef="startevent1" targetRef="usertask1"></sequenceFlow>
    <userTask id="usertask4" name="Überarbeitete Version bereitstellen" activiti:assignee="${initiator}" activiti:formKey="http://10.120.40.24:8080/orbeon/fr/Activiti/Ueberarbeiten/new">
      <documentation>${approver} hat Ihre Anfrage abgelehnt.</documentation>
      <extensionElements>
        <activiti:formProperty id="commentNew" type="string" variable="commentNew"></activiti:formProperty>
        <activiti:formProperty id="motivation" type="string" variable="motivation"></activiti:formProperty>
      </extensionElements>
    </userTask>
    <subProcess id="subprocess1" name="Dokumentprüfung">
      <userTask id="usertask2" name="Dokumentfreigabe für ${initiator}" activiti:assignee="${approver}" activiti:dueDate="${duedate}" activiti:formKey="http://10.120.40.24:8080/orbeon/fr/Activiti/Dokumentgenehmigung/new">
        <documentation>${initiator} hat ein Dokument zur Freigabe angelegt. </documentation>
        <extensionElements>
          <activiti:formProperty id="approved" type="string" variable="approved" required="true">
            <activiti:value id="true" name="Freigeben"></activiti:value>
            <activiti:value id="false" name="Ablehnen"></activiti:value>
          </activiti:formProperty>
          <activiti:formProperty id="motivation" type="string" variable="motivation"></activiti:formProperty>
          <activiti:formProperty id="approver" type="string" variable="approver"></activiti:formProperty>
          <activiti:formProperty id="duedate" type="date" variable="duedate"></activiti:formProperty>
          <activiti:formProperty id="instructions" type="string" variable="instructions"></activiti:formProperty>
        </extensionElements>
      </userTask>
      <exclusiveGateway id="exclusivegateway1" name="Exclusive Gateway"></exclusiveGateway>
      <sequenceFlow id="flow2" sourceRef="usertask2" targetRef="exclusivegateway1"></sequenceFlow>
      <endEvent id="errorendevent1" name="ErrorEnd">
        <errorEventDefinition></errorEventDefinition>
      </endEvent>
      <endEvent id="endevent2" name="End"></endEvent>
      <sequenceFlow id="flow3" name="abgelehnt" sourceRef="exclusivegateway1" targetRef="errorendevent1">
        <conditionExpression xsi:type="tFormalExpression"><![CDATA[${approved == 'false'}]]></conditionExpression>
      </sequenceFlow>
      <sequenceFlow id="flow4" name="genehmigt" sourceRef="exclusivegateway1" targetRef="endevent2">
        <conditionExpression xsi:type="tFormalExpression"><![CDATA[${approved == 'true'}]]></conditionExpression>
      </sequenceFlow>
      <startEvent id="startevent2" name="Start"></startEvent>
      <scriptTask id="scripttask1" name="Formular initialisieren" scriptFormat="javascript" activiti:autoStoreVariables="false">
        <script>execution.setVariable('motivation', '');
if(commentNew){
execution.setVariable('instructions', commentNew);
execution.setVariable('commentNew', '')
}</script>
      </scriptTask>
      <sequenceFlow id="flow13" sourceRef="startevent2" targetRef="scripttask1"></sequenceFlow>
      <sequenceFlow id="flow14" sourceRef="scripttask1" targetRef="usertask2"></sequenceFlow>
    </subProcess>
    <sequenceFlow id="flow5" sourceRef="usertask1" targetRef="subprocess1"></sequenceFlow>
    <sequenceFlow id="flow6" sourceRef="subprocess1" targetRef="usertask3"></sequenceFlow>
    <sequenceFlow id="flow7" sourceRef="usertask3" targetRef="endevent1"></sequenceFlow>
    <boundaryEvent id="boundaryerror1" name="Error" attachedToRef="subprocess1">
      <errorEventDefinition></errorEventDefinition>
    </boundaryEvent>
    <sequenceFlow id="flow12" sourceRef="usertask4" targetRef="subprocess1"></sequenceFlow>
    <sequenceFlow id="flow15" name="falls abgelehnt" sourceRef="boundaryerror1" targetRef="usertask4"></sequenceFlow>
    <dataObject id="commentNew" name="commentNew" itemSubjectRef="xsd:string"></dataObject>
</process>
<bpmndi:BPMNDiagram id="BPMNDiagram_activitiReview">
    <bpmndi:BPMNPlane bpmnElement="activitiReview" id="BPMNPlane_activitiReview">
      <bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="endevent1" id="BPMNShape_endevent1">
        <omgdc:Bounds height="35.0" width="35.0" x="1022.0" y="190.0"></omgdc:Bounds>
      </bpmndi:BPMNShape>
      <bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="startevent1" id="BPMNShape_startevent1">
        <omgdc:Bounds height="35.0" width="35.0" x="60.0" y="188.0"></omgdc:Bounds>
      </bpmndi:BPMNShape>
      <bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="usertask1" id="BPMNShape_usertask1">
        <omgdc:Bounds height="83.0" width="111.0" x="140.0" y="164.0"></omgdc:Bounds>
      </bpmndi:BPMNShape>
      <bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="usertask3" id="BPMNShape_usertask3">
        <omgdc:Bounds height="80.0" width="111.0" x="862.0" y="168.0"></omgdc:Bounds>
      </bpmndi:BPMNShape>
      <bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="usertask4" id="BPMNShape_usertask4">
        <omgdc:Bounds height="80.0" width="111.0" x="580.0" y="359.0"></omgdc:Bounds>
      </bpmndi:BPMNShape>
      <bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="subprocess1" id="BPMNShape_subprocess1">
        <omgdc:Bounds height="231.0" width="501.0" x="310.0" y="90.0"></omgdc:Bounds>
      </bpmndi:BPMNShape>
      <bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="usertask2" id="BPMNShape_usertask2">
        <omgdc:Bounds height="82.0" width="111.0" x="540.0" y="167.0"></omgdc:Bounds>
      </bpmndi:BPMNShape>
      <bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="exclusivegateway1" id="BPMNShape_exclusivegateway1">
        <omgdc:Bounds height="40.0" width="40.0" x="680.0" y="187.0"></omgdc:Bounds>
      </bpmndi:BPMNShape>
      <bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="errorendevent1" id="BPMNShape_errorendevent1">
        <omgdc:Bounds height="35.0" width="35.0" x="760.0" y="153.0"></omgdc:Bounds>
      </bpmndi:BPMNShape>
      <bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="endevent2" id="BPMNShape_endevent2">
        <omgdc:Bounds height="35.0" width="35.0" x="760.0" y="227.0"></omgdc:Bounds>
      </bpmndi:BPMNShape>
      <bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="startevent2" id="BPMNShape_startevent2">
        <omgdc:Bounds height="35.0" width="35.0" x="330.0" y="190.0"></omgdc:Bounds>
      </bpmndi:BPMNShape>
      <bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="scripttask1" id="BPMNShape_scripttask1">
        <omgdc:Bounds height="82.0" width="111.0" x="400.0" y="167.0"></omgdc:Bounds>
      </bpmndi:BPMNShape>
      <bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="boundaryerror1" id="BPMNShape_boundaryerror1">
        <omgdc:Bounds height="30.0" width="30.0" x="700.0" y="300.0"></omgdc:Bounds>
      </bpmndi:BPMNShape>
      <bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="flow1" id="BPMNEdge_flow1">
        <omgdi:waypoint x="95.0" y="205.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="140.0" y="205.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
      </bpmndi:BPMNEdge>
      <bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="flow2" id="BPMNEdge_flow2">
        <omgdi:waypoint x="651.0" y="208.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="680.0" y="207.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
      </bpmndi:BPMNEdge>
      <bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="flow3" id="BPMNEdge_flow3">
        <omgdi:waypoint x="700.0" y="187.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="698.0" y="170.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="760.0" y="170.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <bpmndi:BPMNLabel>
          <omgdc:Bounds height="16.0" width="56.0" x="980.0" y="217.0"></omgdc:Bounds>
        </bpmndi:BPMNLabel>
      </bpmndi:BPMNEdge>
      <bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="flow4" id="BPMNEdge_flow4">
        <omgdi:waypoint x="700.0" y="227.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="698.0" y="244.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="760.0" y="244.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <bpmndi:BPMNLabel>
          <omgdc:Bounds height="16.0" width="60.0" x="980.0" y="350.0"></omgdc:Bounds>
        </bpmndi:BPMNLabel>
      </bpmndi:BPMNEdge>
      <bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="flow13" id="BPMNEdge_flow13">
        <omgdi:waypoint x="365.0" y="207.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="400.0" y="208.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
      </bpmndi:BPMNEdge>
      <bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="flow14" id="BPMNEdge_flow14">
        <omgdi:waypoint x="511.0" y="208.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="540.0" y="208.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
      </bpmndi:BPMNEdge>
      <bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="flow5" id="BPMNEdge_flow5">
        <omgdi:waypoint x="251.0" y="205.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="310.0" y="205.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
      </bpmndi:BPMNEdge>
      <bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="flow6" id="BPMNEdge_flow6">
        <omgdi:waypoint x="811.0" y="205.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="862.0" y="208.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
      </bpmndi:BPMNEdge>
      <bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="flow7" id="BPMNEdge_flow7">
        <omgdi:waypoint x="973.0" y="208.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="1022.0" y="207.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
      </bpmndi:BPMNEdge>
      <bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="flow12" id="BPMNEdge_flow12">
        <omgdi:waypoint x="580.0" y="399.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="559.0" y="398.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="560.0" y="321.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
      </bpmndi:BPMNEdge>
      <bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="flow15" id="BPMNEdge_flow15">
        <omgdi:waypoint x="715.0" y="330.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="714.0" y="397.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <omgdi:waypoint x="691.0" y="399.0"></omgdi:waypoint>
        <bpmndi:BPMNLabel>
          <omgdc:Bounds height="16.0" width="83.0" x="730.0" y="349.0"></omgdc:Bounds>
        </bpmndi:BPMNLabel>
      </bpmndi:BPMNEdge>
    </bpmndi:BPMNPlane>
</bpmndi:BPMNDiagram>
</definitions>
</code>

1. Import this in the Web Modeler.
2. Export it again from the web modeler.
3. When I try to drag and drop the exported process into my Eclipse Plugin, I simply get displayed a red cross. I cannot see the grafical representation and no XML.

When I open the bpmn-file in an editor, I can see that <code>activiti:candidateStarterGroups="activiti_profi"</code> get lost. The web modeler simply ignores this information.

Thanks and best regards
Ben

Re: Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

b_schnarr — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:47:45 GMT

Can you reproduce it?

Re: Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

laurents59 — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 07:47:44 GMT

Hi everyone,
Just to catch up with the initial subject, could you tell me if the new eclipse plugin will be available soon ?
Thanks

Re: Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

b_schnarr — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:34:52 GMT

Sorry for confusing you. The roundtrip is working. What I did not know was:
1. the exported BPMN-file must be saved in the corresponding eclipse-workspace and at no other place.
2. The .bmpn-file must not get renamed during the roundtrip.

Then, everything works fine except one bug:
The candidate-starters of the process instance are removed from the Web-modeler and therefore, this information gets lost during the roundtrip. Is this on your fix-plan?

Thanks and best regards
Ben

Re: Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

laurents59 — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 09:48:38 GMT

Any news on the eclipse plugin update ? any beta available ?
Thanks
Laurent

Re: Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

b_schnarr — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 12:47:47 GMT

ping

Re: Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

andrealuciano71 — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 16:17:20 GMT

Hi,

with regard to my original post about Parallel Gateways missing Asynchronous and Exclusive properties in Activiti Designer.

I checked out the source code from https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti-Designer and modified the following classes to include the Parallel Gateway properties:

org.activiti.designer.util.CloneUtil
org.activiti.designer.property.PropertyAsyncFilter
org.activiti.designer.property.PropertyAsyncSection

After replacing in eclipse plugin directory the org.activiti.designer.gui_5.15.0.201407081458.jar library with the version patched, I can set the exclusive property.

Bye.

Re: Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

b_schnarr — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 06:57:53 GMT

Thanks a lot. But nevertheless, I would also know when the next official build will be released. According to jbarrez, it is overdue.

Re: Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

b_schnarr — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:13:43 GMT

Will the new designer version also support Compensation Boundary Events, Compensation Intermediate Throwing Events and Compensation Handlers? When is the official release of the new modeler? Originally, it was planned for more than 4 weeks ago. Another important construct would be a complex gateway.

Any feedback is appreciated 😃

Best regards
Ben

Re: Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

b_schnarr — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 07:13:45 GMT

Someone alive?

Re: Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

jbarrez — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:39:43 GMT

Hi Benjamin, yes very much alive I didn't check the forum for a couple of days (good weather here + easter holiday for the kids), and probably only Tijs and me will be able to answer that question.

So to come back to your question: yes, the designer release is overdue. But it will be released, Tijs wants to go through Jira to check if there any major things needing to be in it. Don't know when that will happen, but it's on the upper part of his todo list.

The reason for being overdue is that we're currently having to divide our attention over many things. The modeler has a higher priority currently. Moreover, we've started a huge refactoring of the core engine (see https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/tree/activiti6. Soon we'll start publishing articles about it), which is needed to cover various use case and environments our customers are running Activiti in. We've also grown the team drastically over the last months, and it comes of course with a ramp-up cost for everybody involved. Just to sketch that we aren't fiddling our thumbs here 😉

Re: Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

b_schnarr — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:42:13 GMT

Hi Joram,

thanks for your feedback 😃

Re: Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

b_schnarr — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 11:06:34 GMT

Added a ticket: https://activiti.atlassian.net/browse/ACT-4005