bpmndi generation

[peterwanschou]

When i use the activiti designer the bpmndi entries will generated automatic if my diagram have no bpmndi entries.

I generate at my project BPMN 2.0 activiti files and deploy it without use of the designer. With activiti-probe i have now no diagram information and cannot look at my process (active instances).

Can i generate this information?

Cheers
Peter

[peterwanschou]

i will search at the activiti designer code … but when i want to use the class BpmnDIExport i need a lot of eclipse jars …
there must be an other way - i hope

[trademak]

Hi,

BPMN DI can be generated based on a graphical diagram design of a process.
So if you only have BPMN 2.0 XML with DI it's difficult for Probe to generate a nice diagram out of this.
The Activiti Designer has code to import a BPMN 2.0 XML diagram without DI and create a diagram out of it, so that code could be used to generate a diagram in Probe.
But you're right there are a couple of Eclipse dependencies there.
For now I would suggest to use Activiti Designer to overcome this issue.

Best regards,

[peterwanschou]

Hi,

My workaround:
- Open my generated BPMN2.0 with the designer
- Use action export image
- get the bpmndi entries and copy it to a special file

When i generate now again the BPMN2.0 xml i take the before generated bpmndi entries and attach them to my process. The bad thing is that i must rename all generated bpmndi elements, because the designer creates his own naming.

I use Activiti in my master thesis for interorganizational workflow communication and i am not allowed to rename prozess steps, in special id's.

Best regards,
Peter

[trademak]

Hi,

Okay, maybe we should make that optional at the import. So that you can choose if you want to keep the current IDs or do the renaming.

Best regards,