Call activity

Identifies a point in the process where a global process or task is used. The activation of this activity transfers control to the associated global process or task.

Attributes: General

Attribute Description
Model ID The unique identifier of the element within the process model.
Name The name of the element displayed in the diagram.
Documentation A description and any additional information about this element.

Attributes: Details

Attribute Description
Process reference Reference to a process that will be started when this call activity is executed.
Instance name Name of the newly creates process instance.
In Optional input mapping of the parameters and variables which will be available in the newly created instance.
Out Optional output mapping of the parameters and variables.
Process ID variable Optional variable that holds the ID of the created process instance.
Data objects Defines the data objects or sub-process. Each data object will be initialized as a process variable under the defined named.

Attributes: Execution

Attribute Description
Asynchronous When enabled, the activity will be started as an asynchronous job.
Execution listeners Allows you to invoke Java logic after certain events.

Attributes: Multi instance

Attribute Description
Multi instance type Determines if multiple instances of this activity are created. There are three choices:
  • None - default, only one instance is created.
  • MI parallel - activities are created in parallel. This is good practice for User Tasks.
  • MI sequential - activities are created sequentially. This is good practice for Service Tasks.
Collection The number of instances is determined by the elements of a collection. For each element in the collection, a new instance is created.
Element variable The variable under which each element is available to the newly created instance.
Element index variable The variable under which the current number of iterations is stored.
Cardinality An expression or numeric value which determines how many instances are created.
Completion condition An expression which, if evaluated to true, stops the creation of new instances.

Attributes: Visual

Attribute Description
Font color The font color of the element in the diagram.
Font size The font size of the element in the diagram.
Font style The font style of the element in the diagram.
Font weight The font weight of the element in the diagram.
Background color The background color of the element in the diagram.
Border color The border color of the element in the diagram.