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Tim Twe

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Simulation & BPMN Gateway
« on: May 11, 2012, 06:17:11 pm »
Hi,

I am trying to simulate a BPMN process diagram from the example project (Analysis & Business Models / Process Diagrams / Sub Process Activity) and it works great until it gets to a Gateway node.

How do I get the simulation to choose one path over the other?

The examples are not clear OR I am blind.

Thanks,
-Timothy

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Re: Simulation & BPMN Gateway
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2012, 01:44:15 am »
I cannot seem to assign one path (or the other) a "trigger".

Any advice/insight would help greatly.

Sequence diagrams and state diagrams work perfectly.  UML Activity diagrams seem to fail aswell.  I'd expect to see the [constraint] as the highlighted trigger in the Waiting Triggers section.

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Re: Simulation & BPMN Gateway
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2012, 03:31:32 pm »
Hi Tim,

it's the ControlFlow (SequenceFlow) that determines the exit of the Gateway.

Make sure your constraint is implemented as the correct "pseudocode" in the ConditionExpression for the ConditionType "Expression".

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