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Intermediate Catching Event ( Conditional )

johnm — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:38:16 GMT

Hi Guys,I've a question about Intermediate Catching Event's..I am reading Real-Life BPMN (by Freund and Rucker), and they talk about "Conditional" which is a type of Intermediate Catching Event. I would like to use this concept, (whereby the process waits (perhaps a long time .. days) until some con

Re: Intermediate Catching Event ( Conditional )

johnm — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:19:47 GMT

Hi,

I found a similar question here. (looks like Activiti 5.14 does not have Conditional Intermediate Catch Event??)

https://forums.activiti.org/content/support-conditional-events

Could anyone advise what they've done to achieve then same effect? I was thinking we could put the process into a wait state, (by using a Receive Task).. and then signal it when (another java class has figured out if conditions are true)

Thanks you in advance
regards
John

Re: Intermediate Catching Event ( Conditional )

jbarrez — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 19:30:13 GMT

No, nor the intermediate event and conditional sequence flow do what you do.

The way to implement this would indeed be with a receive task+signal combination, or have a service task with a timer intermediate event that loops back until a condition is satisfied.

Re: Intermediate Catching Event ( Conditional )

johnm — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:02:30 GMT

Thanks Joram for your anwser.