General questions about activiti

[galileo]

Hi dear forum,

the company I work for is evaluating workflow tools. Activiti is our first choice. But some questions are open. It would be great if you could give me some short answers to the following questions:

A) Is it possible to change running processes? If not, how is the way to do it? Did I have to end all instances of the process before I can do changes?

B) Is there a protocol of activities, what did a user at which date/time?

C) Regarding to the Eclipse Designer: Is it possible to extend the Eclipse Designer to add your own Elements to the Palette? It could be interesting to have a symbol in the Palette for a db-connection for example with an option for a sql-query in the properties. Is it possible to customise the Designer in this way and how?

Thanks a lot!

[esseti]

not sure for the first two,
but for the third: RTFM - http://www.activiti.org/userguide/index.html

[frederikherema1]

1) Once a process is running in version X, it keeps running in version X of a process-definition, regardless of new versions being present in the system. Process-instance migration is difficult (due to potential mismatch with existing activities). You can, however, use an internal "command" to change the version of a process-instance to a newer one, if there are no conflicts.

2) We have a history-trace. Take a look at the HistoryServcie to see what entities that can be queries (completed processes, taks, activities and variables).

[galileo]

Great. Thanks for your answers!!!
Best, Ralf