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Geert Bellekens

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I'm having a weird problem.

On one model I can drop a BPMN Business Process on a Business Process Diagram and I get the dialog asking if I want to drop it as link or as Invocation (Call Activity)
This is great, because it creates a BPMN Activity of type callProcessActivity and fills in the calledActivityRef with the guid of this Business process.
So that saves me a lot of work. The only thing left to do is to synchronise the name, and composite diagram (which I can do with an EA-Matic script)

But on another model, when I try the same thing I get the option Invocation (Action)
In this case it creates a structured UML Action, and not a BPMN Activity.

I have no idea what the difference is between the two models that make that it work in one case, and not in the other.

Anyone have an idea?

Geert

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Re: BPMN Create Call Activity by dropping BusinessProcess on diagram
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2023, 08:53:18 am »
Hi Geert,
Might it have something to do with the difference between BPMN 1.x and BPMN 2.0?  I think BPMN 1 defines the Action and BPMN 2 defines a Call Activity, but I'm no expert.

Paolo
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Re: BPMN Create Call Activity by dropping BusinessProcess on diagram
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2023, 04:25:27 pm »
Hi Geert,
Might it have something to do with the difference between BPMN 1.x and BPMN 2.0?  I think BPMN 1 defines the Action and BPMN 2 defines a Call Activity, but I'm no expert.

Paolo
Thanks Paolo,

No, in both cases it's BPMN 2.0

Geert