Thank you for your reply Maciej!
That's sounds very close to solving my issue, my only point of concern is the behavior at "Assign New Reviewers": Will jBPM spawn off new processInstances for each sub-employee? For example if a manager has two employees, and they each have three employees:
1. The manager performs the review of his employees
2. Somewhere a check is made to see if the manager's employees have employees
3. Yes they do, Assign the new reviewers
At this point here, how does the processInstance go from a single instance for the manager, to two instances for the manager's employees? This is necessary because each sub-employee will complete a review on different schedules, and each needs to be checked individually for sub-employees after their review is complete.
Is it possible to start a new process, or call an external process from a previously started process?
From the examples I've read it seems like a sub-process might be the key here, I'm just not quite sure how to get the behavior I'm looking for.
Thanks again!