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Re: Signal a wait state and suspend related running subprocesses
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Thank you for answering, Michael</p><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p>Michael Wohlfart ha scritto:</p><blockquote class="jive-quote"><p>An execution implementation will be locked: </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul><li>When it is ended</li><li>When it is suspended</li><li>During asynchronous continuations</li></ul></div></blockquote><p>The behaviour you describe seems to be intended.</p></blockquote><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Yes, it's true, but no way to resume the activity on "inactive-scope" and then signal the main instance?</p><p>My problem is that I<strong style="font-weight: bold;"> cannot signal the main process</strong>, either if sub-process is "<em style="font-style: italic;">active-root</em>" or "<em style="font-style: italic;">suspended</em>", etc:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>INFO  ProcessServiceBean - SUB_PROCESS STATE: SubProcessRequisitesEvaluation.340002 active-root</p><ol><ol><ol><li level="3" type="ol"><p>EXCEPTION ###########################################</p></li></ol></ol></ol><p>12:00:32,886 INF | DefaultCommandService exception while executing command org.jbpm.pvm.internal.cmd.SignalCmd@34e1d5</p><p>org.jbpm.api.JbpmException: execution[MainProcess.50026] has running subprocess: execution[SubProcessRequisitesEvaluation.340002] in state active-root</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>So "root execution" cannot be changed whatever state  are their relative "sub-executions"!</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>You talk about a "wait state", but my suspension is acting like a wait state, and i have provided a timer to fire after a timeout, to "resume" process-execution, the problem is <strong style="font-weight: bold;">to move</strong> the whole workflow instance to that state.</p><p>For now I cannot achieve this if sub-process is running, and the solution cannot be to force ending because the sub-process will be locked anyway.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I have completely freedom for implemention  but my stand points are:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><ol><li>use sub-processes & choose the definition in runtime;</li><li>enforce the suspension in the root-process;</li></ol></div>
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