topic Re: Newbie. Separate thread for Activiti Explorer UI and the workflow process instance in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/newbie-separate-thread-for-activiti-explorer-ui-and-the-workflow/m-p/178484#M131614 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Ah! Got it. I cannot have async=true on my service tasks because they have to be sequential. I was hoping that by enabling jobExecutor, UI thread would automatically move on after firing start event. But from your response (correct me if I am wrong), it seems that the workflow process instance thread needs to return before UI thread can be freed. So, as a workaround, I introduced an intermediate timer event just after start event of my workflow, which freed UI thread immediately.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Now, I didn't find any other configuration, say, make the whole workflow or just the start event asynchronous, which would allow me to get rid of this workaround timer catch event. Am I right here?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks for pointing me in right direction.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Sankalp</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:56:51 GMT sankalpn 2015-03-10T19:56:51Z Newbie. Separate thread for Activiti Explorer UI and the workflow process instance https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/newbie-separate-thread-for-activiti-explorer-ui-and-the-workflow/m-p/178482#M131612 I am trying to write some workflows which, after taking user input in start event form, invoke a series of web service APIs inside service tasks (meaning service tasks take longer to finish) and produce output via email tasks.I am using activiti-explorer UI for user inputs and to deploy the workflow Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:20:33 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/newbie-separate-thread-for-activiti-explorer-ui-and-the-workflow/m-p/178482#M131612 sankalpn 2015-03-09T18:20:33Z Re: Newbie. Separate thread for Activiti Explorer UI and the workflow process instance https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/newbie-separate-thread-for-activiti-explorer-ui-and-the-workflow/m-p/178483#M131613 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>No, using async=true on the service task returns the thread and your ui thread should be free.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So something else is going on. Could you post the relevant process xml?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:44:24 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/newbie-separate-thread-for-activiti-explorer-ui-and-the-workflow/m-p/178483#M131613 jbarrez 2015-03-10T12:44:24Z Re: Newbie. Separate thread for Activiti Explorer UI and the workflow process instance https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/newbie-separate-thread-for-activiti-explorer-ui-and-the-workflow/m-p/178484#M131614 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Ah! Got it. I cannot have async=true on my service tasks because they have to be sequential. I was hoping that by enabling jobExecutor, UI thread would automatically move on after firing start event. But from your response (correct me if I am wrong), it seems that the workflow process instance thread needs to return before UI thread can be freed. So, as a workaround, I introduced an intermediate timer event just after start event of my workflow, which freed UI thread immediately.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Now, I didn't find any other configuration, say, make the whole workflow or just the start event asynchronous, which would allow me to get rid of this workaround timer catch event. Am I right here?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks for pointing me in right direction.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Sankalp</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:56:51 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/newbie-separate-thread-for-activiti-explorer-ui-and-the-workflow/m-p/178484#M131614 sankalpn 2015-03-10T19:56:51Z Re: Newbie. Separate thread for Activiti Explorer UI and the workflow process instance https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/newbie-separate-thread-for-activiti-explorer-ui-and-the-workflow/m-p/178485#M131615 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>If you set async = true to your first service task, everything is still executed in sequence, so no parallel behaviour. And you don't have to introduce the intermediate timer event in that case.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best regards,</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 11 Mar 2015 19:47:38 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/newbie-separate-thread-for-activiti-explorer-ui-and-the-workflow/m-p/178485#M131615 trademak 2015-03-11T19:47:38Z Re: Newbie. Separate thread for Activiti Explorer UI and the workflow process instance https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/newbie-separate-thread-for-activiti-explorer-ui-and-the-workflow/m-p/178486#M131616 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks Tijs. That works.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:03:34 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/newbie-separate-thread-for-activiti-explorer-ui-and-the-workflow/m-p/178486#M131616 sankalpn 2015-03-11T20:03:34Z