topic Aborting a workflow and riling back state in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/aborting-a-workflow-and-riling-back-state/m-p/190146#M143276 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a requirement to be able to abort a workflow which may be in the middle of a long running task and rollback the state of the system to what it was before the workflow started. I tried looking up in the forums and in the activiti book but couldn't find a satisfactory solution. What would be the best/recommended way to do this. If at all possible I'd prefer not to put an exclusive gateway after each task to keep the diagram clean and uncluttered </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thx</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Raghavan </SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 21 May 2015 13:16:34 GMT krraghavan 2015-05-21T13:16:34Z Aborting a workflow and riling back state https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/aborting-a-workflow-and-riling-back-state/m-p/190146#M143276 I have a requirement to be able to abort a workflow which may be in the middle of a long running task and rollback the state of the system to what it was before the workflow started. I tried looking up in the forums and in the activiti book but couldn't find a satisfactory solution. What would be th Thu, 21 May 2015 13:16:34 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/aborting-a-workflow-and-riling-back-state/m-p/190146#M143276 krraghavan 2015-05-21T13:16:34Z Re: Aborting a workflow and riling back state https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/aborting-a-workflow-and-riling-back-state/m-p/190147#M143277 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Raghavan,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It really depends on your understanding of "long" running. In the case when "long" can be covered by DB transaction then</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#bpmnConcurrencyAndTransactions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#bpmnConcurrencyAndTransactions</A><SPAN> .</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>When long is really long and can not be covered by DB transaction, you have to use compensation (e.g Compensation Boundary Event)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Martin</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 22 May 2015 03:59:36 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/aborting-a-workflow-and-riling-back-state/m-p/190147#M143277 martin_grofcik 2015-05-22T03:59:36Z