topic Re: BPMN-Question in Alfresco Archive

BPMN-Question

wir33658 — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:13:01 GMT

Sorry, maybe not the absolute right place, but could not find anything for leading the question directly to the BPMN Spec guys.In the BPMN Spec 2.0 (found on http://www.bpmn.org/) I could not find any description for sub-processes being able to use a reference to an already created BPMN-process. It

Re: BPMN-Question

trademak — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:24:06 GMT

Hi,

I think you looked at embedded sub processes, which are not reusable.
Reusable sub processes are created just like a normal process and invoked from a main process with a call activity.

Best regards,

Re: BPMN-Question

wir33658 — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:20:01 GMT

The call activity, is it an Activiti specific matter or a BPMN Spec matter ? I looked up in the BPMN 2.0 Spec for something like this, but could not find anything.

Maybe you can point it out to me.

Re: BPMN-Question

ronald_van_kuij — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:50:32 GMT

Are you sure?

10.2 Activities
An Activity is work that is performed within a Business Process. An Activity can be atomic or non-atomic
(compound). The types of Activities that are a part of a Process are: Task, Sub-Process, and Call Activity, which
allows the inclusion of re-usable Tasks and Processes in the diagram. However, a Process is not a specific graphical
object. Instead, it is a set of graphical objects. The following sections will focus on the graphical objects Sub-Process
and Task.

Re: BPMN-Question

wir33658 — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:01:31 GMT

Read the Spec pretty much (about 500 pages 😉 but I guess I did not quiet understand the Call Activity. If this is the right mean for what I was asking for - great. I go and study it in more detail.

Thanks pointing it out to me.

Cheers, Rob.

Re: BPMN-Question

ronald_van_kuij — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:57:44 GMT

and it is also in the 'summary'