topic Defining Messages or Signals in Activity Designer in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/defining-messages-or-signals-in-activity-designer/m-p/218310#M171440 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Is there any way to define the existence of a message or signal in the Activiti Designer so that they can be referenced from a Message Start Event / Signal Start Event?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I feel like I'm missing something really obvious so I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm trying to define a process in the Activiti Designer that's triggered in response to a message from an external system. I feel like I should be able to do this by:</SPAN><BR /><UL><LI>Use a <A href="http://www.activiti.org/userguide/#bpmnMessageStartEvent" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Message Start Event</A></LI><LI>Call the <A href="http://www.activiti.org/userguide/#_start_a_process_instance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Start By Message variant of the Start Process REST API</A></LI></UL><SPAN>Or alternatively do it with signals by </SPAN><BR /><UL><LI>Use a <A href="http://www.activiti.org/userguide/#bpmnSignalStartEvent" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Signal Start Event</A></LI><LI>Call the <A href="http://www.activiti.org/userguide/#_signal_event_received" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Signal Event Received REST API</A></LI></UL><SPAN>Where I'm stuck is that I cannot see how to define the existence of the message or signal so that I can Select it in the messageRef or signalRef elements of the start event.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If I add a </SPAN><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;message&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN> or </SPAN><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;signal&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN> element directly to the BPMN XML I can select them in the reference, but cannot find a way to define these signals or events in the designer.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Of course if I've miss-understood and this is an inappropriate use of messages / signals, please let me know.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 19 Jul 2016 21:27:16 GMT edcostello 2016-07-19T21:27:16Z Defining Messages or Signals in Activity Designer https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/defining-messages-or-signals-in-activity-designer/m-p/218310#M171440 Is there any way to define the existence of a message or signal in the Activiti Designer so that they can be referenced from a Message Start Event / Signal Start Event?I feel like I'm missing something really obvious so I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.I'm trying to define a pr Tue, 19 Jul 2016 21:27:16 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/defining-messages-or-signals-in-activity-designer/m-p/218310#M171440 edcostello 2016-07-19T21:27:16Z Re: Defining Messages or Signals in Activity Designer https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/defining-messages-or-signals-in-activity-designer/m-p/218311#M171441 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>In Eclipse:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>1) activate Activiti perspective</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>2) open your process diagram</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>3) make left click on empty space in process diagram so Activity Designer deselects any selected process element</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>4) select Properties tab - it should show properties for process diagram now</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>5) select Signals or Messages subtab in properties tab</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>6) press New button, enter signal name and id, press OK</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Now you can see signal/message in the list</SPAN><BR /></BODY></HTML> Tue, 09 Aug 2016 17:04:41 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/defining-messages-or-signals-in-activity-designer/m-p/218311#M171441 warper 2016-08-09T17:04:41Z