topic Visual Designer kills bpmn20.xml in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/visual-designer-kills-bpmn20-xml/m-p/47817#M27202 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I found this thread: </SPAN><A href="http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&amp;t=2254" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&amp;t=2254</A><SPAN>, but it doesn't directly address my question. I have a process that I sketched out in the designer: the .activiti file. Then I went in and added some custom logic: the operation of a gateway, some formProperties, etc. Stuff I couldn't see an easy way of doing in the visual editor. Tested it out, it worked fine.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Then I went back to the .activiti file, made a small change, saved it and *BAM* all the logic in the bpm20.xml file was overwritten (it's okay, I had backups). Apart from adding all that custom code back in by hand, I don't any way around this. Is this a known/expected feature of Designer? That it blows away all modifications made by hand in the xml file? I haven't tried it, but I suspect the Modeler does the same thing. Our organization has workflows that are expected to change fairly frequently, and I don't see them relishing the task of merging back in logic after using the visual Designer or Modeler.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:36:26 GMT frecklefoot 2011-11-10T15:36:26Z Visual Designer kills bpmn20.xml https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/visual-designer-kills-bpmn20-xml/m-p/47817#M27202 I found this thread: http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&amp;t=2254, but it doesn't directly address my question. I have a process that I sketched out in the designer: the .activiti file. Then I went in and added some custom logic: the operation of a gateway, some formProperties, etc. St Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:36:26 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/visual-designer-kills-bpmn20-xml/m-p/47817#M27202 frecklefoot 2011-11-10T15:36:26Z Re: Visual Designer kills bpmn20.xml https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/visual-designer-kills-bpmn20-xml/m-p/47818#M27203 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Yes, this is a feature of Designer, that's documented here:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><A href="http://docs.codehaus.org/display/ACT/Designer+FAQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://docs.codehaus.org/display/ACT/Designer+FAQ</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If you want to re-apply additions, the most straightforward way is probably to create an XSLT that you can re-use to add your changes after updates.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:08:07 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/visual-designer-kills-bpmn20-xml/m-p/47818#M27203 tiesebarrell 2011-11-11T09:08:07Z