Activiti Designer 5.7.1 released

[trademak]

Hi,

The new release (5.7.1) of the Activiti Designer is now available at http://activiti.org/designer/update.
The release includes the following highlights:

- The Activiti Designer can now be installed on every Eclipse Helios and Indigo distribution, including the Spring Toolsuite. So there's no more restriction on the Classic or Java distribution.
- You can now click to the sub process diagram from a call activity element
- Added support for due date on user task and cancel activity for boundary timer events
- Upgraded to Graphiti 0.8.0 and Tycho 0.12.0

For short screencasts about the functionality of the Activiti Designer you can look at: http://bpmn20inaction.blogspot.com/2011/07/activiti-eclipse-designer-570-release.html.

Best regards,

[ronald_van_kuij]

Great news… and that for a .dot release, again compliments… Now lets see if it also works with JBoss Tools 🙂

[htmfilho]

The installation of Activiti Designer using the Eclipse's feature "Install New Software…" is straightforward. However, I would suggest to make it also available on the download page of the website, for those people who need to perform an offline installation.

We have a proxy server here at work and, for some reason, Eclipse doesn't take the network configuration (Window -> Preferences -> General -> Network Connections) into consideration when looking for packages to download. In this case, to install the plugin manually is the only way to go.

[htmfilho]

BTW, when you lose all your hope to have Eclipse running Activiti Designer in a intransigent proxy:

Open the eclipse.ini file and add the following
-Dorg.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.excludeContributors=org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.httpclient

In a few words the above command says that Eclipse can access the web via the *.pac files of the HTTP clients (eg Internet Explorer or Firefox).

[trademak]

Hi,

You can easily install the Activiti Designer offline via the archive site http://activiti.org/designer/archived/activiti-designer-5.7.1.zip

Best regards,

[htmfilho]

Hi,

Hey, thanks a lot!

Btw, Is it possible to make this link available on the download page? => http://activiti.org/download.html

Also, it would be nice to put some instructions there about using the Eclipse "Install New Software…" feature too? It would require a really short description, of course, but it would help non-eclipse people.

Just my 2 cents.

[cirerenat]

- You can now click to the sub process diagram from a call activity element
I have updated to 5.7.1 but couldn't figure out to use this new feature. How does it work ? Is it supposed to collapse/expand the [+] sign and show the subprocess?
Thank you

[trademak]

Hi,

You can do that by going to the main config tab of the call activity properties view.
Then you see called element and on the right side of the text field an arrow button.
When you fill-in a known process in the called element (the process is available in the workspace) then the arrow button will open that diagram.

Best regards,

[cirerenat]

Thanks Tijs, That arrow is always grayed out for me (Designer 5.7.1, Eclipse SDK 3.6.2).
First I thought maybe it is because I have organized my diagrams under different folders (we have several diagrams, keeping them flat under main/resources/diagrams would not work for us) but that was not it. I've created one main process callings another and placed them both under a new Activiti project's src/main/resources/diagrams, still that right arrow is disabled.

[trademak]

Hi,

You should fill the called element field with the value of the id field of the sub process you want to invoke.
Did you do this?

Best regards,