Activiti Designer 5.9.0 released

[trademak]

Hi all,

I've released a new Activiti Designer version (5.9.0).
This is not just an upgrade with new features and bug fixes, we've also made a couple of changes to the core.
First, we don't have separate .activiti and bpmn20.xml files anymore. We now have one .bpmn file that contains the BPMN 2.0 XML information that's used to create a graphical diagram.
So any previous issues with the synchronization between the .activiti and the .bpmn20.xml file are gone.
Note that we changed the file extension to .bpmn. This has two reasons, first this is a default file extension for BPMN XML files. Second we need to have unique file extension for Activiti Designer diagrams, so .bpmn20.xml doesn't work, because this is seen as a XML file. To migrate your current diagrams to the new Activiti Designer release you only have to copy the .bpmn20.xml file and rename it to a .bpmn file. So actually there's no migration. Also note that this version of the Activiti Designer needs an Eclipse Indigo environment, so Helios is not supported.

Activiti Designer 5.9.0 highlights:

- Only one model file (with .bpmn extension), so no .activiti and .bpmn20.xml synchronization needed anymore.
- Support for nested sub processes.
- Support for signal events and event sub processes
- Improved the movement of boundary events and boundary events are now also moved with its parent.
- Upgrade to Graphiti 0.9.
- Lots of bug fixes.

So we welcome all users to try-out this new version of the Activiti Designer.
To get started copy one of your created .bpmn20.xml files to an Activiti project in the the new Activiti Designer and rename it with a .bpmn extension.
So you don't need the .activiti file at all.

For the next version we are looking at the implementation of the following features:

- Pools and lanes
- Text annotation
- Transaction and compensation support

But we welcome other requests for new features!

Best regards and enjoy,

[nawnaw]

hi,
I have installed activiti designer 5.8.1 in eclipse Helios, but i work with activiti packages 5.9
I have the image file generated when i save my diagram but there is no xml found
I use for the first time activiti, all what i have to do , chane the "activiti" extension to bpmn ?
my diagram contains errors , i have followed this tutorial
http://www.mastertheboss.com/component/content/article/302-activiti-tutorial.html?start=1


[img]C:\Users\Utilisateur\Pictures\a.png[/img]

please help

[trademak]

@htmfilho: yeah I know that for sure
@nawnaw: Why are you not using Activiti Designer 5.9?

[nawnaw]

Because, i get errors while installing it in eclipse helios
Software being installed: Activiti Eclipse BPMN 2.0 Designer 5.9.2 (org.activiti.designer.feature.feature.group 5.9.2)
Missing requirement: Activiti Eclipse BPMN 2.0 Designer 5.9.2 (org.activiti.designer.feature.feature.group 5.9.2) requires 'org.eclipse.ui.navigator 3.5.100' but it could not be found

[trademak]

Yeah that's because you need Indigo. Helios is not supported for 5.9 anymore.

Best regards,

[nawnaw]

Ok

thank you for reply

[gfinne]

+1 to bring the import feature back…

[bcmn]

Hi Florian,

Good point. That's currently left out of the release, but it would certainly be possible to bring it back again.
It depends a bit on the user demand for this, because there's quite a bit of logic needed for this.
So if more users are in need of this I can certainly take a look at it.

Best regards,

I'd also like to see the import feature brought back.  Is there a Jira issue for this already?

– Brad

[trademak]

Hi Brad,

Nope don't think there's a JIRA issue yet.

Best regards,

[kyphi]

Tijs,

I have a question about the Eclipse Activiti bpmn designer which kind of relates to issue ACT-1745. Do you have any plans anytime soon to improve the designer and fix the issue ACT-1745? I find it hard to understand why this is not higher priority on your list…

The issue I am talking about is the designer does not use the standard BPMN2 symbols. For example, the intermediate message event, the intermediate signal event or intermediate timer event use single circle instead of double circle. And there is more… When I showed a diagram created with Activiti designer to someone using BPMN2 as well, he told me I should start learning the BPMN2 basics. Why did he say that? Because he did not expect to see single circled events where only intermediate events are allowed. I had to explain to him that the diagram uses non-standard symbols here and there. I find this situation similar to the case where someone wants to use metaphors and other figures of speech, but they lack proper English writing. I think it's simply basic to use correct symbols. Otherwise, it's like calling Tom by James' name…

Please, think of this.

Thank you,

Me