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Skip the next activity in the Workflow

chandanmb1 — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:03:52 GMT

Hi,I have a workflow process likeStart -> ServiceTask1 -> ServiceTask2 -> ServiceTask3 -> EndWhile Execution of ServiceTask1 based on some condition i need to Skip ServiceTask2 and jump to Service Task3.In normal case it has to execute as is.How to achieve the above scenario ? Is there a

Re: Skip the next activity in the Workflow

hari — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 05:30:51 GMT

Hi,

You need to connect ServiceTask1 to both ServiceTask2 and ServiceTask3 and have the conditions on the flows. So depending on which one evaluates to true, the respective flow will be followed in executing the process.
Example Conditions: ${approve==false} for one flow and ${approve==true}

Re: Skip the next activity in the Workflow

chandanmb1 — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 08:18:52 GMT

Hello,

We dont have a control to change the workflow.
We need some mechanism to handle it in Java code at runtime. Is it possible to achieve without changing the workflow by Java code @runtime ?

Re: Skip the next activity in the Workflow

martin_grofcik — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 09:52:26 GMT

Hi,

Hook to the process parsing (http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#_hooking_into_process_parsing) and you can change any behaviour.

Regards
Martin

Re: Skip the next activity in the Workflow

chandanmb1 — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 05:21:42 GMT

Is there any sample code which explains bit more clear about process parsing?
It will be much helpful to see the code and then implement.

Re: Skip the next activity in the Workflow

martin_grofcik — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 06:40:54 GMT

Hi,

org.activiti.standalone.parsing.TestBPMNParseHandler
Regards
Martin

Re: Skip the next activity in the Workflow

jbarrez — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:19:58 GMT

There is also a 'skipExpression' construct (which isn't documented yet) that can be used to set an expression that determines whether a step in the process needs to be skipped or not.

Re: Skip the next activity in the Workflow

chandanmb1 — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 09:25:32 GMT

This looks interesting for me "SkipExpression"
but how to use it ? Please provide some sample Junit code ?

Re: Skip the next activity in the Workflow

martin_grofcik — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 12:46:59 GMT

Hi,

e.g.
org/activiti/engine/test/bpmn/gateway/ExclusiveGatewayTest.testSkipExpression.bpmn20.xml

Regards
Martin