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Sub-Process Questions

Forms Version 9

Updated March 16, 2016

asked on March 12, 2014

I am setting up a process right now for retiring/resigning employees. We will be notifying each department about the employee leaving so they can make the appropriate changes in their systems. I have been reading about sub-processes and like the idea of being able to not only notify a department about the employee, but basically starting an entire process for them as well. I do have a couple of questions about sub-processes though.

I'm assuming that I can use any of the available gateways in conjunction with starting a sub-process?
Can the sub-process instead of having an End Event tie back into the parent process?
Can you tell the parent process to continue before the sub-process completes? Can you also tell the parent process to wait for the sub-process to complete?

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replied on March 13, 2014

Laserfiche Forms has a limited implementation of BPMN sub-processes that will be improved upon in future releases.

Sub-processes must begin with a generic start event and end with an end event.
When the sub-process reaches its end event, the sub-process is over and the parent process continues.
No, the parent process will wait for the sub-process to complete.

If you have a very large process model, using sub-processes is a way to hide some of the details to make your process model more readable. Sub-processes don't offer additional functionality; it's possible to model the same process without using them.

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replied on March 16, 2016

Hello!

I'm looking to find out if the sub-process has been improved upon with Version 10; particularly, the questions Blake asked in this post.

Thank you!

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