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Cancel process instance started as a CallActivity

aveltens — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:56:36 GMT

Hello,how can I cancel a process instance programmatically? I have read that i just could delete the process instance via runtime service, but this leads to problems, when the intance was started as a CallActivity: The parent process is then "stuck" at the CallActivity node and does not continue.Is

Re: Cancel process instance started as a CallActivity

saatsch — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:29:57 GMT

Hey

this would be very interesting, we are facing the same problem.

Greets,
saatsch

Re: Cancel process instance started as a CallActivity

aveltens — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:35:53 GMT

We modelled a "StartSubProcess" process that uses a Service-Task to start a process programmatically. To start a sub process we start this "StartSubProcess" via callactivity instead of the actual process we want to start. The actual procress ist started programmatically with the Java-Activiti-API in the service task, so that it is no real sub-process.

To cancel this "sub-process" we just delete it and afterwards signal the "StartSubProcess" which is in a wait state, so that it moves on and the acutal parent process (which called the "StartSubProcess") is continued.

It's not a simple solution, but it works fine, and since we had no choice we implemented it that way. Hopefully activiti will implement a better way to cancel a sub-process in near future.

Re: Cancel process instance started as a CallActivity

pfeiffer — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:32:37 GMT

Is there already a solution for this problem ?

Re: Cancel process instance started as a CallActivity

jbarrez — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:34:05 GMT

I haven't tried it yet, but I'm thinking using events (terminate end event/signal/…) might be the way to go here….

(again, not tested yet!)