Compensate not running for failing task

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Hi

I have the following bpmn

compensation
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When bookFlight fails, only reserveCar compensation is executed.

Is there any way for the compensation for bookFlight to also run when compensations are triggered?

Thanks!

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Hi @SGarofalo,

the compensation is called for completed tasks only: https://docs.camunda.org/manual/7.8/reference/bpmn20/events/cancel-and-compensation-events/#compensation-boundary-event

I assume, that book flight throws the error, so it is not completed (and can not be compensated).

Hope this helps,

Ingo

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I was thinking in the case for instance BookFlight calls a remote server and then lost connectivity and gets a timeout, or there is an issue processing the response.
But maybe I can catch the error, respond to it as needed and then throw the error for the rest of the tasks to compensate.

Thanks

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Hello,

Iā€™m facing the same issue as described where a service task calls a remote service but fails afterwards.
The compensation does not occur and the change in the remote service is not rolled back.

Any tips to solve this?

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