Conditional Transition

[dognose]

Hello,

I want certain tasks to become active, if certain Attributes are set.
i.e. if a user ticks the checkbox "requiresValidation" a validationTask should be started, after the prior task is completed.

[task1] ——————-> [task2]
    |——->[validation]——-^
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In the designer, I added the following conditions to the both outgoing paths of task1:
direct path: #{!requiresValidation}
validation path: #{requiresValidation}

But this doesn't work. I assume the problem ist, that activiti is storing the value of a checkbox as a string.
I also tried #{requiresValidation eq true}

no matter what i put in there, it will ALWAYS be "true" and both tasks are started at the same time.

doing the same with a (manually) declared process variable of type boolean works.

[jbarrez]

If it is stored as a string, you probably will need to use ", eg #{requiresValidation eq "true"} or #{requiresValidation == "true"}

[dognose]

If it is stored as a string, you probably will need to use ", eg #{requiresValidation eq "true"} or #{requiresValidation == "true"}

that was my thought, too. but something seems to be wrong.
Even if i put a false or #{false} in there, the transitions are executed  :?:

Edit: okay that was my fault.

#{requiresValidation eq "true"} is the way to go.

My Problem was, that i used a (not shown) parallel-gateway, and according to the docu, Conditional Transitions on a Gateway are ignored.
Well, once Problem Solved - like 50 new Ones: How to handle all my conditional Transitions without connecting em to gateways ?  :shock:
Applying a (Dummy-)Service task to each gateway with an conditional outcome?  :?  :shock: 

[ronald_van_kuij]

My Problem was, that i used a (not shown) parallel-gateway, and according to the docu, Conditional Transitions on a Gateway are ignored.

Conditions on a parallel gateway are ignored. Use an exclusive gateway…

[jbarrez]

Indeed. Or just let the sequence flow leave the step directly, without gateway. The default semantics of BPMN 2.0 is to take all outgoing sequence flow which have a 'true' condition.