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BPMN 2.0 Exclusive Gateway (start) - need help
« on: September 10, 2016, 01:35:02 am »
Hi,

I need help with an exclusive gateway. I would like to start a process with two events and connect them to exclusive gateway. In such situation i should use exclusive start gateway (that with one circle), but i can't find any tag value responsible for doing so in EA. Standard exclusive gateway represents intermediate one (two circles). Could anybody guide me if there is any way to do so? THANKS!
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Re: BPMN 2.0 Exclusive Gateway (start) - need help
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2016, 01:57:17 am »
If you are using BPMN2.0 with EA v12.1 there's a dropdown name Type in the BPMN2.0 tab that has Exclusive as one of the choices

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Re: BPMN 2.0 Exclusive Gateway (start) - need help
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2016, 02:44:49 am »
Yes, but it brings intermediate gateway (two circles), no matter if I use it after start events. My goal is to use stereotype of exclusive event gateway with one circle - which is used as starting gateway for processess beginning with two events - as referered to resource OMG materials.
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Re: BPMN 2.0 Exclusive Gateway (start) - need help
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2016, 02:49:51 am »
I don't see two (or one) circles on my diagram. I see a diamond shape with a diagonal cross.

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Re: BPMN 2.0 Exclusive Gateway (start) - need help
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2016, 02:52:31 am »
It seems that u're not using Exclusive-Event type, but standard exclusive.

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Re: BPMN 2.0 Exclusive Gateway (start) - need help
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2016, 08:34:08 am »
Drop a gateway onto the diagram and select "Event" as the type.

From the properties dialog you can select "Event-Exclusive" as the type.

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Re: BPMN 2.0 Exclusive Gateway (start) - need help
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2016, 06:59:55 pm »
Have you tried to put in "True" the "markerVisible" tag value?

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Re: BPMN 2.0 Exclusive Gateway (start) - need help
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2016, 11:47:12 pm »
Yes, I used exactly the same options that you stated, but the problem is that I can't get event based exclusive gateway like the second one (with one circle)  from the following resource (event based, table 7.2, page 34) from reference guide http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/PDF/

It seems I can only use the first one (with two circles) which isn't fully correct when I want to start process with two events and connect them with event based exclusive gateway. Maybe the second one isn't implemented in EA or I miss something.