In Activiti 5.12 user guide, support for pools and lanes is mentioned and illustrated. However, I can not find the notations in Activiti modeler. They are available in Eclipse plugin. But when I try to deploy the diagram by using Java api, following warnings are issued:
31 May 2013 12:57:01,530 [main] WARN org.activiti.engine.impl.bpmn.parser.BpmnParse:485 - Invalid reference in diagram interchange definition: could not find pool1 31 May 2013 12:57:01,530 [main] WARN org.activiti.engine.impl.bpmn.parser.BpmnParse:485 - Invalid reference in diagram interchange definition: could not find lane1
When I upload XML by using Activiti Explore and then deploy, I can create process instance without problem. But attempting to convert it to editable mode will issue an error: "Import Failed: Make sure the file contains valid BPMN".
So what is the status of support for pools and lanes in 5.12?
Pools and lanes are currently not supported in the Modeler, but they are supported in the Designer. I hope we can provide support for this in one of the next releases of Activiti.
Related to this question, we created our Activiti workflow using the Designer and we are also getting these warnings during deployment:
11:46:20,903 WARN [BpmnParse] Invalid reference in diagram interchange definition: could not find lane1 11:46:20,904 WARN [BpmnParse] Invalid reference in diagram interchange definition: could not find ApprovalWorkflowContainer
How can avoid these warnings being logged? Since the workflow seems to be working like it should.