topic Re: sending signal doesn't activate process in Alfresco Archive

sending signal doesn't activate process

ms1 — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 20:31:13 GMT

Hello All,I am working on a new process which will have a timer (the user specifies when an event will run) and also has the ability for the user to run the event now instead of waiting for the scheduled time. So, the user would schedule a time, decide to run it before then and the process should co

Re: sending signal doesn't activate process

martin_grofcik — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 07:21:27 GMT

Hi Mark,

It is hard to guess. May be you could create jUnit test to reproduce the issue.
You can have a look on org.activiti.engine.test.bpmn.gateway.EventBasedGatewayTest jUnit tests to see how event based gateway works too.

Regards
Martin

Re: sending signal doesn't activate process

ms1 — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 20:09:59 GMT

What I ended up doing is changing this to a message and it worked. I modified the diagram to add a message definition and changed the call from RuntimeService.signalEventReceived(…) to the equivalent RuntimeService.messageEventReceived(…) and it worked as expected. The process continues as soon as the message is sent.

I don't know why there is a difference, but this is working for me.