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Eclipse plugin without design mode

tomash — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:36:16 GMT

I'f installed Eclipse Classic Helios 3.61 as described and afterwards the Activiti BPMN 2.0 designer without problems. Checkbox "Contact all updates sites" was not checked.Problem: After opening the bpmn20.xml files form the explorer I can only see the xml-code and a table-like version in the design

Re: Eclipse plugin without design mode

tomash — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:10:43 GMT

It was right - the xml-file was opened with the Activiti BPMN Editor. If I try to open the file with the Activiti Diagram Editor I get the following error:

"Could not open the editor: An exception was thrown during initialization"

Re: Eclipse plugin without design mode

tiesebarrell — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:18:09 GMT

Yep,

you shouldn't open the bpmn20.xml files with the diagram editor - that's meant for the .activiti files. From the .activiti files, you can generate the .bpmn20.xml files. Those you can then open with the BPMN editor, which has context support for editing BPMN.

Re: Eclipse plugin without design mode

tomash — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 21:14:08 GMT

Thanks for the advise.

I suspected its possible to open xml files as diagram respectively generate diagrams from xml-files.

Now it works with new activiti projects and new activiti diagrams.

Re: Eclipse plugin without design mode

bschupbach — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 20:31:45 GMT

"you shouldn't open the bpmn20.xml files with the diagram editor - that's meant for the .activiti files. From the .activiti files, you can generate the .bpmn20.xml files. Those you can then open with the BPMN editor, which has context support for editing BPMN."

How is this done? How do you take your xml file and generate a diagram with the editor? When we make xml changes, the diagram is not updated..

Thanks,

Brian