Hi
I am a newbie to Camunda. I am in a small french StartUp that is modeling his processes (~50).
I have watched all the (excellent) videos from Niall and I have a pretty good knowledge of BPMN.
I am trying to execute some of these processes with the Camunda engine (CE version).
I don’t succeed to deploy my first process.
I have no deploy button in Cockpit/Deployment screen (as in the first video)
I tried the “Deploy current diagram” in Camunda Modeler entering a Deployment name (that I set to the process name) I let Tenant Id to null. I get the green Success message but my process is not present in the Cockpit/Deployment list.
I let the Endpoint URL to http://localhost:8080/engine-rest/deployment/create (that is not accessible from the Web browser)
I use the latest Camunda engine from docker on a Mac (I didn’t succeed to start the local engine using the shell script)
Any idea of what should I do ?
Side questions
How to create only one lane ?
when I drag and drop a pool in the modeler it seems to me that there is no lane created. The workaround I found id to add a lane under or above (then I got 2 lanes) and name one and suppress the other
How to access a subprocess from the diagram ?
I have read that it is by Ctrl-click on Windows but I am on a Mac and Cmd-click do not work
Inclusive gateway what if no condition to true ?
If no condition is true on the branches of a Inclusive Gateway does the token goes to the “end of Inclusive gateway” (as I cannot deploy my processes I cannot test this at the moment !) ?
So the main problem seems to be that you haven’t any added any execution semantics to the model. e.g. expressions for gateways or timer settings.
The modeler has a little bug at the moment where it tells you it’s successfully deploy when it hasn’t, which might explain the confusion.
In answer to your other questions:
Lanes: I’m pretty sure lanes only exist if you need at least 2 - otherwise it’s just a pool and the concept of a lane isn’t require. Also - lanes aren’t really needed by the engine, they’re only a visual indicator so i suggest only using them if you have to
The feature to go from a Call Activity to the process model it calls is not available in the desktop modeler but it is available on our web modeler https://cawemo.com/projects
At least one sequence flow must be true or there will be an error. To ensure this you can use a default flow - which would be activated if no other branch matches.
I’m following the example from “Get Started > Executable Process > Deploy the Process” and I’m having the same problem. As far as I can tell, I entered everything exactly as shown in the pictures for the model. Could there be something missing in the example?
