Problem with Indexed condition expression

dwoodbury — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:30:58 GMT

Hello:I'm looking for a way to implement an indexed conditional within a multi-instance sub-process.The conditional expression is associated with a sequence flow leaving a gateway.And, I'd like to use the multi-instance loopCounter value to test a condition variable associated with the sub-process.F

Re: Problem with Indexed condition expression

trademak — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:53:03 GMT

Hi,

It seems to me like you want to add a process variable of type List and add the outcome of every instance (multi-instance) to this list.
Then you can use the loopCounter to get this outcome.

Best regards,

Re: Problem with Indexed condition expression

dwoodbury — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:01:40 GMT

Hello:

Thank you for the help. Yes, that is what I needed to do. The Activiti User-Guide is very clear that there are two ways to configure a multi-instance activity. (1) Set the loopCardinality OR (2) Set the loopDataInputRef and the inputDataItem, however, the Eclipse Designer allows all three to be set, which seems to cause problems with the engine. I also had used the variable loopCounter as my loopCardinality variable and this may be a bad practice as loopCounter is used by the engine within the sub-process instances.

Here's what I ended up doing:

1. Java Service Task to set assignees (similar to example in Chapter 10 of Activiti in Action)

         String participants = new String("peter,fozzie,kermit");
            String[] participantsArray = participants.split(",");
            ArrayList<String> assigneeList = new ArrayList<String>();
            for (String assignee : participantsArray) {
                    assigneeList.add(assignee);
            }
            List<ArrayList<String>> assigneeGroupList = new ArrayList<ArrayList<String>>();
            assigneeGroupList.add(assigneeList);
            assigneeGroupList.add(assigneeList);
            assigneeGroupList.add(assigneeList);
            assigneeGroupList.add(assigneeList);
            execution.setVariable("assigneeGroupList", assigneeGroupList);

2. Configure just the loopDataInputRef and the inputDataItem elements in the BPMN and use loopCounter as index into the List.

   <subProcess id="subprocess1" name="Obtain CAB Approvals">
      <multiInstanceLoopCharacteristics isSequential="false">
        <loopDataInputRef>assigneeGroupList</loopDataInputRef>
        <inputDataItem name="assigneeList"></inputDataItem>
        <completionCondition>${nrOfCompletedInstances/nrOfInstances == 1}</completionCondition>
      </multiInstanceLoopCharacteristics>
      <startEvent id="startevent2" name="Start"></startEvent>
      <userTask id="usertask5" name="Approve CAB Request" activiti:candidateUsers="${assigneeGroupList.get(loopCounter)}" activiti:formKey="/changeRequest/approval"></userTask>

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