Will Activiti Design catch up with latest Activiti features soon?

[andrealuciano71]

Hi,

   browsing the content of Activiti Designer's plugin site (i.e. http://www.activiti.org/designer/update/), it comes out that the software has not been updated for quite a lot, but what I'm missing more is the cool feature regarding async parallel/inclusive gateways introduced in Activiti as of release 5.16:

   http://bpmn20inaction.blogspot.it/2014/07/activiti-516-feature-preview.html

   Now, the problem is that if I edit the .bpm file to manually add the activiti:async and/or activiti:exclusive attributes they are not preserved in Activiti Designer.

    Any plan to release an update of Activiti Desiner soon?

   Thanks,

   Andrea Luciano

[b_schnarr]

ping

[andrealuciano71]

Hi,

   
with regard to my original post about Parallel Gateways missing Asynchronous and Exclusive properties in Activiti Designer.

I checked out the source code from https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti-Designer and modified the following classes to include the Parallel Gateway properties:
   
  org.activiti.designer.util.CloneUtil
  org.activiti.designer.property.PropertyAsyncFilter
  org.activiti.designer.property.PropertyAsyncSection

After replacing in eclipse plugin directory the org.activiti.designer.gui_5.15.0.201407081458.jar library with the version patched, I can set the exclusive property.

Bye.

[b_schnarr]

Thanks a lot. But nevertheless, I would also know when the next official build will be released. According to jbarrez, it is overdue.

[b_schnarr]

Will the new designer version also support Compensation Boundary Events, Compensation Intermediate Throwing Events and Compensation Handlers? When is the official release of the new modeler? Originally, it was planned for more than 4 weeks ago. Another important construct would be a complex gateway.

Any feedback is appreciated 😃

Best regards
Ben

[b_schnarr]

Someone alive?

[jbarrez]

Hi Benjamin, yes very much alive I didn't check the forum for a couple of days (good weather here + easter holiday for the kids), and probably only Tijs and me will be able to answer that question.

So to come back to your question: yes, the designer release is overdue. But it will be released, Tijs wants to go through Jira to check if there any major things needing to be in it. Don't know when that will happen, but it's on the upper part of his todo list.

The reason for being overdue is that we're currently having to divide our attention over many things. The modeler has a higher priority currently. Moreover, we've started a huge refactoring of the core engine (see https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/tree/activiti6. Soon we'll start publishing articles about it), which is needed to cover various use case and environments our customers are running Activiti in. We've also grown the team drastically over the last months, and it comes of course with a ramp-up cost for everybody involved. Just to sketch that we aren't fiddling our thumbs here 😉

[b_schnarr]

Hi Joram,

thanks for your feedback 😃

[b_schnarr]

Added a ticket: https://activiti.atlassian.net/browse/ACT-4005