topic Re: Activiti Designer 5.7.1 released in Alfresco Archive

Activiti Designer 5.7.1 released

trademak — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:13:23 GMT

Hi,The new release (5.7.1) of the Activiti Designer is now available at http://activiti.org/designer/update.The release includes the following highlights:- The Activiti Designer can now be installed on every Eclipse Helios and Indigo distribution, including the Spring Toolsuite. So there's no more r

Re: Activiti Designer 5.7.1 released

ronald_van_kuij — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:34:46 GMT

Great news… and that for a .dot release, again compliments… Now lets see if it also works with JBoss Tools 🙂

Re: Activiti Designer 5.7.1 released

htmfilho — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:52:17 GMT

The installation of Activiti Designer using the Eclipse's feature "Install New Software…" is straightforward. However, I would suggest to make it also available on the download page of the website, for those people who need to perform an offline installation.

We have a proxy server here at work and, for some reason, Eclipse doesn't take the network configuration (Window -> Preferences -> General -> Network Connections) into consideration when looking for packages to download. In this case, to install the plugin manually is the only way to go.

Re: Activiti Designer 5.7.1 released

htmfilho — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:01:21 GMT

BTW, when you lose all your hope to have Eclipse running Activiti Designer in a intransigent proxy:

Open the eclipse.ini file and add the following
-Dorg.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.excludeContributors=org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.httpclient

In a few words the above command says that Eclipse can access the web via the *.pac files of the HTTP clients (eg Internet Explorer or Firefox).

Re: Activiti Designer 5.7.1 released

trademak — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:24:48 GMT

Hi,

You can easily install the Activiti Designer offline via the archive site http://activiti.org/designer/archived/activiti-designer-5.7.1.zip

Best regards,

Re: Activiti Designer 5.7.1 released

htmfilho — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:53:06 GMT

Hi,

Hey, thanks a lot!

Btw, Is it possible to make this link available on the download page? => http://activiti.org/download.html

Also, it would be nice to put some instructions there about using the Eclipse "Install New Software…" feature too? It would require a really short description, of course, but it would help non-eclipse people.

Just my 2 cents.

Re: Activiti Designer 5.7.1 released

cirerenat — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:18:25 GMT

- You can now click to the sub process diagram from a call activity element
I have updated to 5.7.1 but couldn't figure out to use this new feature. How does it work ? Is it supposed to collapse/expand the [+] sign and show the subprocess?
Thank you

Re: Activiti Designer 5.7.1 released

trademak — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:39:41 GMT

Hi,

You can do that by going to the main config tab of the call activity properties view.
Then you see called element and on the right side of the text field an arrow button.
When you fill-in a known process in the called element (the process is available in the workspace) then the arrow button will open that diagram.

Best regards,

Re: Activiti Designer 5.7.1 released

cirerenat — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:10:23 GMT

Thanks Tijs, That arrow is always grayed out for me (Designer 5.7.1, Eclipse SDK 3.6.2).
First I thought maybe it is because I have organized my diagrams under different folders (we have several diagrams, keeping them flat under main/resources/diagrams would not work for us) but that was not it. I've created one main process callings another and placed them both under a new Activiti project's src/main/resources/diagrams, still that right arrow is disabled.

Re: Activiti Designer 5.7.1 released

trademak — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 09:34:10 GMT

Hi,

You should fill the called element field with the value of the id field of the sub process you want to invoke.
Did you do this?

Best regards,

Re: Activiti Designer 5.7.1 released

mtvrznik — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:35:57 GMT

Hi,

I have same configuration (Designer 5.7.1, Eclipse SDK 3.6.2) and same problem, called element field is filled with subprocess ID, but arrow still remains grey….

Re: Activiti Designer 5.7.1 released

trademak — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:41:08 GMT

Hi,

Can you post the Activiti projects that you are using?
Then I can try to reproduce the error.

Best regards,

Re: Activiti Designer 5.7.1 released

mtvrznik — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:53:47 GMT

Here is it,
mainProcess diagram contains CallActivity with process named subProcess (same name as the ID)

Re: Activiti Designer 5.7.1 released

trademak — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:16:38 GMT

Okay, thanks. I see that your project is no typical Activiti project.
There is a src folder configured as source folder instead of the src/main/resources folder.
Maybe you can explain this?
If I change this, the call activity button is not grayed out anymore.

Best regards,