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Identifying a chain of processes and subprocesses as a whole

mlegnani
Champ in-the-making
Champ in-the-making
Hi all,
I'm using Activity to support the processes of a customer of mine. There are business functions composed by a lot of processes and subprocesses but Activiti does not seem to take into consideration this typical real world business case since it is focused on processes and looses every process-subprocess link. I see there is a BusinessKey attribute but it is lost when passing from a process to its subprocess. Am I right? Is it true that nothing links the chain (except for /viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2053 campa improvement)?
Don't you think it would be useful to have something like a businesskey that is propagated at every level of process/subprocess chains.
In my opinion, another very useful thing would be a progress number to determine the sequence of tasks visited during process flow. Two parallel tasks can have the same sequence number.
Thanks a lot,
Massimo
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jbarrez
Star Contributor
Star Contributor
BPMN 2.0 does not really support this feature, so it will have to be an Activiti specific extension.

However, what would be the value of passing a business key? Searchability? … ?