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Help generating valid bpmn20.xml using activiti-modeler

shbeita

Hi,
I'm trying to integrate Activiti as our BPM tool.
The idea is to five an external tool to the customers by default to generate the process definitions, and I thought we should use activiti-modeler since it web based and easy to use (for non technical users).
The problem is that i can't generate files and use them directly in the explorer. I must change the files manually in order to successfully deploy using activiti-explorer.
I need at least to change the following:
1. add the activiti namespace to the file: xmlns:activiti="http://activiti.org/bpmn"
2. change the isExecutable=ture instead of false
3. add activiti prefix to all activiti elements

Any idea how can i make the modeler works properly?

BTW using the designer works great , but we can give an eclipse plugin as a tool to customers.

Thanks
Serhan

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shbeita

Hi
Can anyone help here….
We need to use out of the box tool to give our customers to create the process definition..
Activiti-modeler even after foloowing up the steps in this page: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/ACT/How+to+build+Activiti+Modeler+from+Signavio
I couldn't make it to generate valid bpmn20.xml file (missing namespace etc')

Please your help so I can convince my team and managers to use activiti as our BPM engine.

Thanks

mindaugas

hi,

for me are also interesting why automatically Signavio editor put isExecutable="false" attribute in false. May be there are some property to change it?

<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; <signal id="sid-45d1b1d2-1699-4f95-8d44-bc401724fff2" name="s1"/><br>&nbsp;&nbsp; <signal id="sid-48d5d7af-e59b-4fbc-8a21-0422c9faa6f3" name="s2"/><br>&nbsp;&nbsp; <process id="Proc13" isExecutable="false"><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <startEvent id="sid-8FD08E35-7390-4316-B611-9E3D1CE714DD" name="Start Process"><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <extensionElements><br>

dguggi

i don't know if the modeler can to this (add activity namespace etc.) - i just build the war file (with the configuration=Activiti). Looking at the source code the configuration=Activiti doesn't seem to add any activiti extensions (namespace etc.). I don't know if this was used to work with the ant-activiti-patch (which is not part of acitviti anymore)

Imho currently the eclipse designer is also to limited (transactional-subprocess, cancel-boundary events etc. are afaik unsupported yet…)

So currently I use the Yaoqiang BPMN Editor (http://bpmn.sourceforge.net/). This is a simple (standalone) java program with an activiti-addon. I use the bpmn editor to model the processes and can use them in activiti without modifying the generated xml…

daniel

fmpdmb

My question is even more generic. Why do I have a workflow.bpmn file as well as a workflow.bpmn20.xml file? My understanding is that the eclipse plugin modifies the bpmn files, but I need to have the bpmn20.xml files to deploy to the process engine. Is my understanding correct? If so, how can I keep these files in sync with each other?

fmpdmb

I answered my own question and have solved this problem by using ant to rename my *.bpmn files to *.bpmn20.xml with a separate build target as follows:

<br><target name="deployWorkflowDefinitions"><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <fileset id="workflowDefinitions" dir="src/java/main" includes="**/*.bpmn" /><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <resourcecount property="count.workflowDefinitions" refid="workflowDefinitions" /><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <echo>Deployed ${count.workflowDefinitions} workflow definitions.</echo><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <!&ndash; copy workflow definition files, but rename to deployable format &ndash;><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <copy todir="${dist-classes}" failonerror="true"><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <fileset refid="workflowDefinitions" /><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <mapper type="glob" from="*.bpmn" to="*.bpmn20.xml"/><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </copy><br></target><br>