Add sub activities to an activity

[jchidiac]

Hi,
it's possible to add sub-activity to an activity ?

[vickyk]

Does sub activities mean sub processes, I am trying to confirm since I was trying to figure the term from the bpmn specs could not get ;(

Regards,
Vicky

[jchidiac]

yes, it will be a sub-process
and the activity should be wait the end of the sub-process before taking the outgoing transition

[jbarrez]

The PVM allows to add sub activities to any activity.
This will also be how the (embedded) subprocess will be implemented (planned for this month).

[jchidiac]

the sub-activity ( or sub-process) should be not contains informations about the transition

and  once the Activity finish, automatically the execution search to execute the Activity's sub-activities list
and once all the sub-activities done, the execution execute the Activity's transition

it's done by the PVM ?
any example about this ?

thx for ur reply.

[jchidiac]

Hello again,
how can i add multiple sub activities to an activity ?
can i have an example ?

[vickyk]

and  once the Activity finish, automatically the execution search to execute the Activity's sub-activities list
and once all the sub-activities done, the execution execute the Activity's transition

it's done by the PVM ?
any example about this ?

thx for ur reply.

I think you are looking for parallel execution of sub activities, are you not looking for the flows as pointed here
http://svn.codehaus.org/activiti/activiti/trunk/modules/activiti-engine-examples/src/test/resources/...

If you can give the graphical view of the problem I can try coming us with the example of corresponding bpmn artifacts( xml and testcase).

Regards,
Vicky

[jchidiac]

i'm looking to add at runtime a sub-activity to an activity : 
ex  : add [Task 11] to the task 1 [ParallelGatewayTest.testUnbalancedForkJoin.png] 
and the execution of task1 should wait the end of Task 11 before moving to Task 4

[falko_menge]

i'm looking to add at runtime a sub-activity to an activity : 
ex  : add [Task 11] to the task 1 [ParallelGatewayTest.testUnbalancedForkJoin.png] 
and the execution of task1 should wait the end of Task 11 before moving to Task 4

That sounds to me like an Ad-Hoc Sub-Process, which is defined in the spec as "[…] a group of Activities that have no REQUIRED
sequence relationships."

Do you already know the possible 'sub-activities' at design-time?