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Activiti Wait and Trigger implementation

saurabh_biet — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:29:31 GMT

I am reading and learning Activiti. While doing the same I tried to incorporate a workflow where:1. Start event triggers an EMAIL having 2 links approve and reject2. Once user approves/reject, I want to update the status of the same in database.3. Irrespective of approve/reject downstream service is

Re: Activiti Wait and Trigger implementation

jbarrez — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 12:04:50 GMT

> After this I add a Boundary-Signal to the task so that the workflow waits

This is not correct. A service task will always continue. The signal doesn't do anything here. Use the 'intermeidate signal catch' event to do what you want instead.

Re: Activiti Wait and Trigger implementation

saurabh_biet — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 04:18:12 GMT

Thanks for your comment.
I was able to fix this. At times over-reading docs time and again helps

I have changed my flow. Now once the service task ends, I invoke the receive task.
To continue a process instance that is currently waiting at such a Receive Task, the runtimeService.signal(executionId) must be called using the id of the execution that arrived in the Receive Task.

It works.

Thanks!