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Add sub activities to an activity

jchidiac — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:02:15 GMT

Hi, it's possible to add sub-activity to an activity ?

Re: Add sub activities to an activity

vickyk — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:25:56 GMT

Does sub activities mean sub processes, I am trying to confirm since I was trying to figure the term from the bpmn specs could not get ;(

Regards,
Vicky

Re: Add sub activities to an activity

jchidiac — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:43:04 GMT

yes, it will be a sub-process
and the activity should be wait the end of the sub-process before taking the outgoing transition

Re: Add sub activities to an activity

jbarrez — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:10:28 GMT

The PVM allows to add sub activities to any activity.
This will also be how the (embedded) subprocess will be implemented (planned for this month).

Re: Add sub activities to an activity

jchidiac — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:03:02 GMT

the sub-activity ( or sub-process) should be not contains informations about the transition

and once the Activity finish, automatically the execution search to execute the Activity's sub-activities list
and once all the sub-activities done, the execution execute the Activity's transition

it's done by the PVM ?
any example about this ?

thx for ur reply.

Re: Add sub activities to an activity

jchidiac — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:37:44 GMT

Hello again,
how can i add multiple sub activities to an activity ?
can i have an example ?

Re: Add sub activities to an activity

vickyk — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:14:11 GMT

and once the Activity finish, automatically the execution search to execute the Activity's sub-activities list
and once all the sub-activities done, the execution execute the Activity's transition

it's done by the PVM ?
any example about this ?

thx for ur reply.

I think you are looking for parallel execution of sub activities, are you not looking for the flows as pointed here
http://svn.codehaus.org/activiti/activiti/trunk/modules/activiti-engine-examples/src/test/resources/org/activiti/examples/bpmn/gateway/ParallelGatewayTest.testUnbalancedForkJoin.png

If you can give the graphical view of the problem I can try coming us with the example of corresponding bpmn artifacts( xml and testcase).

Regards,
Vicky

Re: Add sub activities to an activity

jchidiac — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:25:26 GMT

i'm looking to add at runtime a sub-activity to an activity :
ex : add [Task 11] to the task 1 [ParallelGatewayTest.testUnbalancedForkJoin.png]
and the execution of task1 should wait the end of Task 11 before moving to Task 4

Re: Add sub activities to an activity

falko_menge — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:56:01 GMT

i'm looking to add at runtime a sub-activity to an activity :
ex : add [Task 11] to the task 1 [ParallelGatewayTest.testUnbalancedForkJoin.png]
and the execution of task1 should wait the end of Task 11 before moving to Task 4

That sounds to me like an Ad-Hoc Sub-Process, which is defined in the spec as "[…] a group of Activities that have no REQUIRED
sequence relationships."

Do you already know the possible 'sub-activities' at design-time?