https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/howto-separate-process-definition-from-visual-metadata/m-p/8102#M2557 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks for the reply.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The eclipse plugin seems to work much better indeed. Making changes by hand in the xml doesn't work either (the xml is generated from the diagram and overwritten when diagram is saved) but the UI is rich enough to specify the common stuff I needed so far and the generated process definition is nicely readable (takes advantage of activiti namespace and doesn't clutter the process definition with visual metadata).</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:55:27 GMT robokaso 2011-03-14T09:55:27Z https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/howto-separate-process-definition-from-visual-metadata/m-p/8100#M2555 Hi,I'm just starting to work with Activiti and one of the first problems I face is that I don't see a good way how to have a clean activiti process definition xml and use the modeler at the same time. E.g. when I look at the VacationRequest sample the process definition is quite different in activit Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:00:39 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/howto-separate-process-definition-from-visual-metadata/m-p/8100#M2555 robokaso 2011-03-09T10:00:39Z https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/howto-separate-process-definition-from-visual-metadata/m-p/8101#M2556 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm afraid not. The Modeler has its own way of laying out the elements (note: the Eclipse plugin doesn't do this), however the Cycle app has some ways of facilitating this&nbsp; (so in time this will be more powerful then now)</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:25:18 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/howto-separate-process-definition-from-visual-metadata/m-p/8101#M2556 jbarrez 2011-03-14T09:25:18Z https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/howto-separate-process-definition-from-visual-metadata/m-p/8102#M2557 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks for the reply.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The eclipse plugin seems to work much better indeed. Making changes by hand in the xml doesn't work either (the xml is generated from the diagram and overwritten when diagram is saved) but the UI is rich enough to specify the common stuff I needed so far and the generated process definition is nicely readable (takes advantage of activiti namespace and doesn't clutter the process definition with visual metadata).</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:55:27 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/howto-separate-process-definition-from-visual-metadata/m-p/8102#M2557 robokaso 2011-03-14T09:55:27Z