Transitions Depending on Task Outcomes - CUBA Platform. BPM subsystem

3.6. Transitions Depending on Task Outcomes

BPMN 2.0 notation doesn’t provide a way to define multiple outcomes for a User task. To make a process to continue in a required direction, the Exclusive gateway is used. Its outgoing flows have conditions that operate with the results of the preceding task. When a user completes the task, its result is written to the process variable with the name generated as [taskId]_result. The variable type is ProcTaskResult.

Methods of the ProcTaskResult class:

count(String outcomeName): int - returns the number of users who completed the task with the given outcome.
exists(String outcomeName): boolean - returns true if there are users who completed the task with the given outcome.

The result object of the task completion is used in the Flow condition expression of gateway outgoing flows.

Example

Figure 35. Task Outcomes Example

Suppose that the approval task was assigned to multiple uses in parallel. There are two outcomes defined for the task: approve and reject. When all users have completed the task, the process goes to the exclusive gateway. We want to implement the following behavior: if anyone chooses the reject option then go to the Rejected flow; if everyone approved the task then go to the Approved flow.

Defining a Condition in a Flow Outcome Field

The simplest way to define the flow condition is to select the name of the previous task outcome in the Flow outcome property of the flow node. The flow will be activated if there was at least one task completion with the selected outcome.

Defining a Complex Condition for the Flow Node

If you need to implement more complex condition for the outcome, you can define it in the Flow condition field. For example, "More than 5 users selected the Reject option" condition looks as follows:

${approval_result.count('reject') > 5}