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assign activity unusable via jBPM Eclipse Tools?
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/white.templar">white.templar</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/579078#579078">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>hope this is the right place to adress my issue...I'm new here so feel free to move it to a place probably more suitable...</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>i've encountered some trouble using the "assign" activity nodes as described in</p><p><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v4/devguide/html_single/#assign" target="_blank">http://docs.jboss.org/jbpm/v4/devguide/html_single/#assign</a></p><p>with the Eclipse jBPM 4 Graphical Edtior and Tools.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Versions are:</p><p>jBPM 4 Graphical Editor and Tools    4.0.0.v201007071649-795-8s73533H3H5FBL</p><p>Eclipse Platform Version: 3.5.1.R35x_v20090910-9gEeG1_FthkNDSP2odXdThaOu9GFDPn83DGB7</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I can get used to the fact, that it is not possible to create "assign" activitiy nodes within the graphical editor.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>So when I add the following line (as described in the development guide):</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><a class="jive-link-anchor-small"><assign name='copy' from-var='person' to-var='clone'>  </a></p><p><a class="jive-link-anchor-small"></assign></a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>the assign node is not displayed in the graphical editor.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Even worse:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>When I add a transition to any node in my process graph in the source sheet like:</p><p>     <transition to="copy"/></p><p>this transition is removed whenever I switch to graphical view and back.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>So the visual editor destroys an otherwise valid process. Tried to add "g"-attribute to the assign-tag already.</p><p>But didn't change. Note was not displayed and the transition to the "invisble" node was removed from the xml.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>If foreach nodes and transitions to them are added everyhting works fine.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Searched this forum and the rest of the web already, but haven't found anything regarding my problem.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>What am I doing wrong?</p><p>Will the visual web editor be able to deal with assign-nodes?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Is the solution to abandon the usage of the graphical editor entirely and just edited plain XML?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Thanks for any suggestions.</p></div>
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