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Graphical representation of running process

npereira1 — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:26:48 GMT

Hi forum,Me and my company have been investigating activiti in order to see it's potential as workflow engine.So far we are very impressed, but I would like to ask about a feature that I don't see in activiti.We need to be able to view all running process and their graphical representation. Is this

Re: Graphical representation of running process

jbarrez — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:55:43 GMT

The display of processes is already in there, since yesterday: http://www.jorambarrez.be/blog/2010/12/16/automatic-bpmn-2-0-process-diagram-generation-in-activiti/

The next step is to use this to visualize the current step in the diagram. However, that feature is not yet planned.

Re: Graphical representation of running process

npereira1 — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:41:11 GMT

Hi Joram,

Thanks for your update, although I was thinking more on the lines of being able to "view all running process" of a given process and then being able to select one of them and view it's current progress.

Will this be possible?

Re: Graphical representation of running process

jbarrez — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:13:09 GMT

How would you see that, the visualization of 'all running processes' ?

Re: Graphical representation of running process

npereira1 — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:23:55 GMT

Hi,

The idea is to have a console where I can see all running process instances.

I have a Request Vacation Process, but I might have 4 instances running of this process, that reflect 4 people that have requested a vacation.
The idea is to be able to list these 4 processes and be able to open them one at a time to see what's it's current status.

Re: Graphical representation of running process

wir33658 — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:02:07 GMT

Hi,

the same is to find under http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=37

I am still wondering why this is not there right from the beginning, since I have to have a visual process controll for single process instances.

I still don't know how others use this engine if you do not have an overview where the process-instance is at runtime. Maybe this works with small processes, but def not with large long-time running processes.

Cheers, Rob.

Re: Graphical representation of running process

kapokfly — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:54:32 GMT

Lack of such features will make the nice activiti out of most projects, please 🙂

Added my vote, but looks like it is still unassigned.

Re: Graphical representation of running process

jbarrez — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:05:27 GMT

The fact that is it unassigned, isnt important, we go through every Jira each month.

The idea is that such a process instance inspection page will be added to Explorer in the future. For that, we must however also work out who can see what: you do not want that everybody in the company sees all the processes for example.