Activiti Designer 5.9.3 released and user guide updated

[trademak]

Hi all,

I've released a new version of the Activiti Designer with the following highlights:

- Sequence flow labels can be repositioned (the label location is saved)
- Multiple bug fixes, see the Activiti JIRA

The user guide is now also in sync with the current version of the Activiti Designer, see http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#activitiDesigner

Best regards,

[billwang]

When I delete two Pool useing "shift + delete" at same time, The code can not be deleted correctly form the  XML file.

Best regard.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<definitions xmlns="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:activiti="http://activiti.org/bpmn" xmlns:bpmndi="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI" xmlnsmgdc="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC" xmlnsmgdi="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI" typeLanguage="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" expressionLanguage="http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath" targetNamespace="http://www.activiti.org/test">
  <collaboration id="Collaboration">
    <participant id="pool1" name="Pool" processRef="process_pool1"></participant>
    <participant id="pool2" name="Pool" processRef="process_pool2"></participant>
  </collaboration>
  <process id="process_pool1" name="process_pool1">
    <laneSet id="laneSet_process_pool1">
      <lane id="lane1"></lane>
    </laneSet>
  </process>
  <process id="process_pool2" name="process_pool2">
    <laneSet id="laneSet_process_pool2">
      <lane id="lane2"></lane>
    </laneSet>
  </process>
  <bpmndi:BPMNDiagram id="BPMNDiagram_process1">
    <bpmndi:BPMNPlane bpmnElement="process1" id="BPMNPlane_process1"></bpmndi:BPMNPlane>
  </bpmndi:BPMNDiagram>
</definitions>

[markwandrew]

I am trying to import a bmpn file (without DI info) to work on it with the designer. I suspect this is not an uncommon case.
In the activiti docs I found the following a few days ago

BPMN 2.0 XML files can be imported into the Activiti Designer and a diagram will be created. There are two ways supported to import a BPMN 2.0 XML file. One is to right-click on the Activiti project in the package explorer and choose the Import BPMN 2.0 file option at the bottom of the popup menu. Then you can choose the BPMN 2.0 XML via the file select dialog and the diagram is created. A second option is to import the BPMN 2.0 XML file to the src/main/resources/diagrams folder of your project (the filename should end with .bpmn20.xml). Then when you open the BPMN 2.0 XML file the diagram is created. Note that the Activiti Designer is able to read the BPMN DI information from the BPMN 2.0 XML file, but in this version the diagram is created by parsing and analyzing the BPMN 2.0 XML only, because this gives the best result. This means that import support is available even for BPMN 2.0 XML files without BPMN DI information.

Now I see this

BPMN 2.0 XML files can be imported into the Activiti Designer and a diagram will be created. Just copy the BPMN 2.0 XML file to your project and open the file with the Activiti Diagram Editor view. The Activiti Designer uses the BPMN DI information of the file to create the diagram. If you have a BPMN 2.0 XML file without BPMN DI information, no diagram can be created.

This made me sad  :cry: , although it explained why nothing I did could get the import to work as previously described. Is there any chance of this changing back in the future? Am I the only one for whom this is a significant feature?

[trademak]

@markwandrew, no you're not the only one. But this requires quite a bit of coding.
I certainly want to add this functionality again in one of the next versions.

Best regards,

[trademak]

@Bill Wang can you create a JIRA for this?

Thanks,

[naag]

Thanks for this wonderful update once more 🙂

[mmaker1234]

Hello Tijs,

Will Activiti Designer 5.9.3 work on the upcoming Eclipse version Juno?

[raunion]

Hi, when I change the "Id" of a pool with the designer, the plugin also delete some lines from the xml and the diagram fails to open again.

I compared the xml after and before, and the lines deleted of the xml are the "bpmndi:BPMNShape" definitions of the lanes:

<bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="lane1" id="BPMNShape_lane1" isHorizontal="true">
        <omgdc:Bounds height="191" width="771" x="60" y="40"></omgdc:Bounds>
</bpmndi:BPMNShape>

Its related to the one of Bill Wang

Regards

[trademak]

@mmaker1234, Yes it should support Juno, because the Graphiti version supports it.
But I haven't tested it yet.

Best regards,

[trademak]

@raunion can you create a JIRA for that issue?

Best regards,