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Error when opening Vacation Request example

ruedesilva — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:25:44 GMT

When I open the VacationRequest example in Eclipse under designer I get the error VacationRequest.activiti file not found. I did find this file created automatically by the designer in a different folder. I copied the file to where the VacationRequest.bpmn20.xml is located (in src\main\process\org\a

Re: Error when opening Vacation Request example

ruedesilva — Mon, 09 May 2011 21:32:09 GMT

I also tried the latest release 5.5 instead of 5.4 and still get the same error but 'flow3' instead of 'flow9'.

thanks,
Rue

Re: Error when opening Vacation Request example

stree — Wed, 11 May 2011 08:20:45 GMT

When I open the VacationRequest example in Eclipse under designer I get the error VacationRequest.activiti file not found. I did find this file created automatically by the designer in a different folder. I copied the file to where the VacationRequest.bpmn20.xml is located (in src\main\process\org\activiti\examples\taskforms) and then that error went away. However I get new error:

Could not open the editor: org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi.UnresolvedReferenceException: Unresolved reference 'flow9'. (platform:/resource/activiti-engine-examples/src/main/process/org/activiti/examples/taskforms/VacationRequest.activiti, 321, 117)

so my questions are:

1) Why does the .activiti file get created in a different folder? Is there a configurable parameter that can be set? I found this problem with other examples also.

2) How can I fix the files so that I can open the VacationRequest properly in designer?

thanks,
Rue

My question is almost the same. I tried to use the "activiti-modeler" to build a test process, then "Import the BPMN 2.0 file" into an activiti project using the eclipse, always the above error.
It seems like the file format transformation from "test.bpmn20.xml" to "test.activiti" causes some lost.
by the way, i do use the eclipse 3.6.1 and update the Activiti BPMN 2.0 designer

Re: Error when opening Vacation Request example

trademak — Thu, 12 May 2011 07:15:58 GMT

Hi,

The vacation request example contains a task element, which was not supported by the Designer, because it's not runnable BPMN.
I changed the parsing to also allow the task element, and now it's transformed to a service task in the import.
So now the vacation request example can be imported to the Designer (at least when you use the trunk source code).

Best regards,

Re: Error when opening Vacation Request example

ruedesilva — Thu, 12 May 2011 14:59:23 GMT

Hi TradeMak,

thank you for the reply. But I do not understand your answer. Could you please explain in a bit more detail how I can get this to work also?

thanks so much,
Rue

Re: Error when opening Vacation Request example

trademak — Thu, 12 May 2011 15:12:46 GMT

Hi,

To get this to work you'll have to built the Activiti Design from the source code as explained here http://docs.codehaus.org/display/ACT/Activiti+Designer+Developer+Guide.
You can also wait for the next release, then this functionality will be available as part of the version 5.6 distribution.

Best regards,

Re: Error when opening Vacation Request example

ruedesilva — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:30:25 GMT

Thansk Trademak. I will wait for the 5.6 release.

- Rue