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Help generating valid bpmn20.xml using activiti-modeler

shbeita — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 14:00:32 GMT

Hi,I'm trying to integrate Activiti as our BPM tool.The idea is to five an external tool to the customers by default to generate the process definitions, and I thought we should use activiti-modeler since it web based and easy to use (for non technical users).The problem is that i can't generate fil

Re: Help generating valid bpmn20.xml using activiti-modeler

shbeita — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 07:57:07 GMT

Hi
Can anyone help here….
We need to use out of the box tool to give our customers to create the process definition..
Activiti-modeler even after foloowing up the steps in this page: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/ACT/How+to+build+Activiti+Modeler+from+Signavio
I couldn't make it to generate valid bpmn20.xml file (missing namespace etc')

Please your help so I can convince my team and managers to use activiti as our BPM engine.

Thanks

Re: Help generating valid bpmn20.xml using activiti-modeler

mindaugas — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:50:48 GMT

hi,

for me are also interesting why automatically Signavio editor put isExecutable="false" attribute in false. May be there are some property to change it?


   <signal id="sid-45d1b1d2-1699-4f95-8d44-bc401724fff2" name="s1"/>
   <signal id="sid-48d5d7af-e59b-4fbc-8a21-0422c9faa6f3" name="s2"/>
   <process id="Proc13" isExecutable="false">
      <startEvent id="sid-8FD08E35-7390-4316-B611-9E3D1CE714DD" name="Start Process">
         <extensionElements>

Re: Help generating valid bpmn20.xml using activiti-modeler

dguggi — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:58:28 GMT

i don't know if the modeler can to this (add activity namespace etc.) - i just build the war file (with the configuration=Activiti). Looking at the source code the configuration=Activiti doesn't seem to add any activiti extensions (namespace etc.). I don't know if this was used to work with the ant-activiti-patch (which is not part of acitviti anymore)

Imho currently the eclipse designer is also to limited (transactional-subprocess, cancel-boundary events etc. are afaik unsupported yet…)

So currently I use the Yaoqiang BPMN Editor (http://bpmn.sourceforge.net/). This is a simple (standalone) java program with an activiti-addon. I use the bpmn editor to model the processes and can use them in activiti without modifying the generated xml…

daniel

Re: Help generating valid bpmn20.xml using activiti-modeler

fmpdmb — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:39:12 GMT

My question is even more generic. Why do I have a workflow.bpmn file as well as a workflow.bpmn20.xml file? My understanding is that the eclipse plugin modifies the bpmn files, but I need to have the bpmn20.xml files to deploy to the process engine. Is my understanding correct? If so, how can I keep these files in sync with each other?

Re: Help generating valid bpmn20.xml using activiti-modeler

fmpdmb — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:38:16 GMT

I answered my own question and have solved this problem by using ant to rename my *.bpmn files to *.bpmn20.xml with a separate build target as follows:


<target name="deployWorkflowDefinitions">
    <fileset id="workflowDefinitions" dir="src/java/main" includes="**/*.bpmn" />
    
    <resourcecount property="count.workflowDefinitions" refid="workflowDefinitions" />
    <echo>Deployed ${count.workflowDefinitions} workflow definitions.</echo>
    
    <!– copy workflow definition files, but rename to deployable format –>
    <copy todir="${dist-classes}" failonerror="true">
      <fileset refid="workflowDefinitions" />
      <mapper type="glob" from="*.bpmn" to="*.bpmn20.xml"/>
    </copy>
</target>