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Event Registry Start

Introduction

Starts a process based on an event registry event.

The event registry start can be used to start a new process instance. This event creates a subscription, which will then be triggered by next event received by the event registry. It is possible to start always a new process or only in case there is no process with the same correlation parameters.

Properties

General

AttributeTypeDescriptionCategory
Model Id Text

Model Id identifies the element within the process model.

The model id, name and documentation properties can be found on any element. They are used respectively to uniquely identify the start event, to give the start event a user-friendly name and to add a free-form description.

Name Expression usage possibleText

The name of the element. This is the name displayed in the diagram.

Documentation Multiline Text

A free-form text that can be used to explain details about the particular element.

Inbound event inboundstarteventconfiguration

A reference to an event model.

Configure the event that triggers the start of the process instance (or event subprocess). The data of the incoming event can be mapped into the process instance as variables in the 'payload mapping'.

Inbound channel Expression usage possibleReference

Configures the channel on which the event is received

Configure the channel on which the event will be received.

Advanced

Execution

AttributeTypeDescriptionCategory
Asynchronous Boolean

When enabled, the activity will be started as an asynchronous job. The process state is persisted before this element is executed. Then, the process execution will be resumed asynchroneously. This can be used when the execution an activity takes a long time to return the UI to the user quicker in case the user does not need to see the next step immediately. However, if an error occurs before the following wait state, there will be no direct user feedback. Please refer to the documentation for more details.

When making a start event asynchronous, the process instance will be created and the start form variable will be stored, but the next step(s) will be executed asynchronously.

Choose exclusive to avoid other asynchronous steps of this process instance to run at the same time.

Exclusive Boolean

Determines whether the activity or process is run as an exclusive job. An exclusive job makes sure that no other asynchronous exclusive activities within the same process are performed at the same time. This helps to prevent failing jobs in concurrent scenarios.

Leave asynchronously Boolean

When enabled, the activity will be left as an asynchronous job. This means that the activity is ended asynchronously, including end execution listeners. Please refer to the documentation for more details.

Leave exclusive Boolean

Determines whether the activity should leave as an exclusive job. An exclusive job makes sure that no other asynchronous exclusive activities within the same process are performed at the same time. This helps to prevent failing jobs in concurrent scenarios.

Job Category Expression usage possibleText

When set, the underlying generated job will have a Job Category, which will be executed only by Application Servers, where the Process Engine has enabledJobCategories set to this category.

Details

AttributeTypeDescriptionCategory
Interrupting Boolean

If used in an event subprocess, determines whether parent executions will be terminated.

Listeners

AttributeTypeDescriptionCategory
Execution listeners List

Allows invoking custom after certain lifecycle events.

Start: Executes after the activity has been started.

End: Executes after the activity was completed.

Transition: When defined on a sequence flow, executes once the flow is transition is taken.

Execution listeners are used to add logic on certain lifecycle events.

Typically it is used to add extra technical logic which shouldn't be visible in the BPMN process model.

Visual

AttributeTypeDescriptionCategory
Font size Selection:
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 14
  • 18
  • 20
  • 24
  • 36
  • 48
  • 72

Font size.

Visual properties that determine how the start event is shown in the diagram.

This has no impact on the runtime execution.

Font weight Selection:
  • Normal
  • Bold

Select the style between bold and normal.

Border color RequiredColor

The border color of the element in the diagram.

Font style Selection:
  • Normal
  • Italic

Select the style between italic and normal.

Font color Color

Select a font color.

Background color RequiredColor

The background color of the element in the diagram.

List Attribute Details

Execution listeners

AttributeTypeDescription
Event RequiredSelection:
  • Start
  • End
  • Take

The lifecycle event. The 'Take' event is only available for sequence flow.

Class Text

Fully qualified classname of a class to be invoked when executing the task. The class must implement either JavaDelegate or ActivityBehavior.

Expression Text

JUEL Expression to be executed when the task is started. Expressions allow you to interact with the backend by calling services, making calculations etc. You can find more information about expressions in the documentation.

Delegate expression Text

Delegate Expression to be executed when the task is started. A delegate expression must resolve to a Java object, for instance a Spring bean. The object's class must implement either JavaDelegate or ActivityBehavior.

Fields List

Fields

AttributeTypeDescription
Name Text

The name of the element. This is the name displayed in the diagram.

String value Text
Expression Text

JUEL Expression to be executed when the task is started. Expressions allow you to interact with the backend by calling services, making calculations etc. You can find more information about expressions in the documentation.

String Text