topic cancelActivity = true in boundary event does not cancel process flow in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cancelactivity-true-in-boundary-event-does-not-cancel-process/m-p/210056#M163186 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I am currently playing around with SignalBoundaryEvents. I have this simple BMPN model depicted here </SPAN><A href="http://imgur.com/aPxAgJE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://imgur.com/aPxAgJE</A><SPAN> and outlined in xml below:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;<BR />&lt;definitions xmlns="<A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL</A>" xmlns:xsi="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</A>" xmlns:xsd="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</A>" xmlns:activiti="<A href="http://activiti.org/bpmn" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://activiti.org/bpmn</A>" xmlns:bpmndi="<A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI</A>" xmlns:omgdc="<A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC</A>" xmlns:omgdi="<A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI</A>" typeLanguage="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</A>" expressionLanguage="<A href="http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath</A>" targetNamespace="<A href="http://www.activiti.org/test" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.activiti.org/test</A>"&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;signal id="SystemSignal" name="System Signal"&gt;&lt;/signal&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;process id="myProcessSignal" name="My process signal" isExecutable="true"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;startEvent id="startevent1" name="Start"&gt;&lt;/startEvent&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;subProcess id="subprocess1" name="Sub Process"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;serviceTask id="servicetask2" name="Service Task2" activiti:async="true" activiti:exclusive="false" activiti:class="testDelegates.TestDelegate"&gt;&lt;/serviceTask&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;startEvent id="startevent2" name="Start"&gt;&lt;/startEvent&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;endEvent id="endevent1" name="End"&gt;&lt;/endEvent&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow1" sourceRef="startevent2" targetRef="servicetask2"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow2" sourceRef="servicetask2" targetRef="endevent1"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/subProcess&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;serviceTask id="servicetask1" name="Service Task1" activiti:async="true" activiti:exclusive="false" activiti:class="testDelegates.TestDelegate"&gt;&lt;/serviceTask&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;serviceTask id="servicetask3" name="Service Task3" activiti:async="true" activiti:exclusive="false" activiti:class="testDelegates.TestDelegate"&gt;&lt;/serviceTask&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow4" sourceRef="startevent1" targetRef="servicetask1"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow5" sourceRef="servicetask1" targetRef="subprocess1"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;serviceTask id="servicetask4" name="Service Task4" activiti:class="testDelegates.TestDelegateSignal"&gt;&lt;/serviceTask&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow9" sourceRef="subprocess1" targetRef="servicetask3"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;boundaryEvent id="systemSignalCatch" name="systemSignalCatch" attachedToRef="subprocess1" cancelActivity="true"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;signalEventDefinition signalRef="SystemSignal"&gt;&lt;/signalEventDefinition&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/boundaryEvent&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow10" sourceRef="systemSignalCatch" targetRef="servicetask4"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow11" sourceRef="servicetask3" targetRef="servicetask1"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;endEvent id="terminateendevent1" name="TerminateEndEvent"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;terminateEventDefinition&gt;&lt;/terminateEventDefinition&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/endEvent&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow12" sourceRef="servicetask4" targetRef="terminateendevent1"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/process&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The whole thing will loop service task 1 -&gt; service task 2 -&gt; service task 3 until a signal is received in the sub process that contains service task 2 which will lead to a SignalBoundaryEvents and ultimately to the termination of the whole thing. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When i trigger the signal via </SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-java line-numbers"><CODE><BR />….<BR />Execution exec = runtime.createExecutionQuery().signalEventSubscription("System Signal").singleResult();<BR />if(exec != null){<BR />&nbsp; runtime.signalEventReceived("System Signal", exec.getId());<BR />}<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>things go as planned, i.e., the SignalBoundaryEvent is triggerd and consecutively the service task connected it is triggered leading to a terminateEndEvent. Eventhough I have set cancelActivity in the Boundaryevent to true&nbsp; the process resumes with the loop ultimately leading to a org.activiti.engine.ActivitiObjectNotFoundException , which is confirmed when looking at the output of an EventListener</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&lt;blockcode&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ACTIVITY_STARTED</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>[servicetask4]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ACTIVITY_COMPLETED</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>[servicetask4]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>SEQUENCEFLOW_TAKEN</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>[terminateendevent1]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ACTIVITY_STARTED</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>[terminateendevent1]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ACTIVITY_COMPLETED</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>PROCESS_COMPLETED</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ENTITY_DELETED&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; //&lt;- should end here </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ACTIVITY_COMPLETED</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>[servicetask2]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; //&lt;- However resumes with loop</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>SEQUENCEFLOW_TAKEN</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>[endevent1]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ACTIVITY_STARTED</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>[endevent1]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ACTIVITY_COMPLETED</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ACTIVITY_COMPLETED</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ENTITY_DELETED</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>[subprocess1]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>SEQUENCEFLOW_TAKEN</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>[servicetask3]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ENTITY_CREATED</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>[servicetask3]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ENTITY_INITIALIZED</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>[servicetask3]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ENTITY_DELETED</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>[servicetask3]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>JOB_EXECUTION_SUCCESS</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>[servicetask3]</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>JOB_EXECUTION_FAILURE&nbsp; //&lt;- exceptions out</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&lt;/blockcode&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any ideas / hints on what I am doing wrong would be highly appreciated (I am using activiti 5.17.0).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Konrad </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /></BODY></HTML> Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:44:17 GMT kkdw 2015-06-23T15:44:17Z cancelActivity = true in boundary event does not cancel process flow https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cancelactivity-true-in-boundary-event-does-not-cancel-process/m-p/210056#M163186 Hi,I am currently playing around with SignalBoundaryEvents. I have this simple BMPN model depicted here http://imgur.com/aPxAgJE and outlined in xml below:&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;&lt;definitions xmlns="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001 Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:44:17 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cancelactivity-true-in-boundary-event-does-not-cancel-process/m-p/210056#M163186 kkdw 2015-06-23T15:44:17Z Re: cancelActivity = true in boundary event does not cancel process flow https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cancelactivity-true-in-boundary-event-does-not-cancel-process/m-p/210057#M163187 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Konrad,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Could you prepare jUnit test please? (</SPAN><A href="http://forums.activiti.org/content/sticky-how-write-unit-test" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://forums.activiti.org/content/sticky-how-write-unit-test</A><SPAN>)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Martin</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 24 Jun 2015 06:27:26 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cancelactivity-true-in-boundary-event-does-not-cancel-process/m-p/210057#M163187 martin_grofcik 2015-06-24T06:27:26Z