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Making multiple sub processes from one process

ericsnyder — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:57:41 GMT

I need to design a process (tool process) that drives the making of a tool. That tool has anywhere from zero to multiple parts that feed into the tool. I want the tool process to start another process (part) for each part that is needed. I then want the tool process to wait until all the parts (zero

Re: Making multiple sub processes from one process

frederikherema1 — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:51:33 GMT

You can have a parallel gateway in the main-process that has outgoing flows to subProcesses (or call activities). On these sequence-flows, you put a condition that only evaluates to true if the tool you're creating in the current process-instance, needs the particular part that the subprocess/callactivity handles.

As an alternative, if you have a single subprocess that handles ALL tool parts, you can create a multi-instance subprocess that is called X times (parallel or serial), where X is the number of parts involved. Internally, in the subprocess, the right logic is chosen for the part involved. When all part-subprocesses are finished, the main-process moves on…

Re: Making multiple sub processes from one process

ericsnyder — Wed, 08 May 2013 13:55:27 GMT

I *think* I understand:

Here is Version 1 you describe above:
http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj532/flycast11/Version1.jpg

Here is version 2:
http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj532/flycast11/Version2.jpg

Do I have what you are suggesting basically right?

Re: Making multiple sub processes from one process

ericsnyder — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:26:20 GMT

frederikheremans:

Thank you. I did not try Version 1 above but Version 2 works with a slight modification. Rather than using a sub process I used a call activity that calls a different process. When the process is started you can key in the number of parts you need. The first task in the called process is a task to enter information that is specific to the part being built in the sub process.

Thanks for the point in the right direction!

Re: Making multiple sub processes from one process

frederikherema1 — Mon, 13 May 2013 08:47:27 GMT

Glad it helped! Thanks for sharing the solution.

Re: Making multiple sub processes from one process

gutlez — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:01:25 GMT

I'm pretty sure I put in a request a long time ago to implement Inclusive Gateways, which is what is really being asked for here.

Re: Making multiple sub processes from one process

jbarrez — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:43:55 GMT

And the inclusive gateway is implemented a long time ago in Activiti: http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#bpmnInclusiveGateway

Re: Making multiple sub processes from one process

srinivasmula — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:09:44 GMT

Hi Eric,

Could you share your work flow with calling activity that calls a different process

Re: Making multiple sub processes from one process

amruta_w — Mon, 07 May 2018 12:26:15 GMT

Hi Eric Snyder _‌

Even I have same question, if you have resolved please provide solution here.

Thanks

Amruta Wandakar