How to model a call activity to an external diagram (.bpmn of course)

Hello everybody,

I’m trying to do something very simple, I suppose:

  1. create a call acticity
  2. create a process as a separate bpmn file
  3. create a “link” from my call activity to the sub-process in my separate file

I read that entry about Process ID (https://forum.camunda.io/t/drill-down-into-call-activity-in-camunda-modeler/533.

I’ve come this far:

My Question: Is that a correct global sub-process?
If not how can I reference a global sub-process in a separate file?

thanks a lot,

Stephan

To fully understand how this works i suggest either looking through this tutorial video: https://vimeo.com/235729360 or reading through the Docs https://docs.camunda.org/manual/7.9/reference/bpmn20/subprocesses/call-activity/

While the the entire video is a roller-coaster of fun an excitement, you can skip to 15:45 to see the specifics about call activities.

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Thanks for the ride :slight_smile:

So if I understand this correctly:

  1. the reference is done by process-ID alone, which can be set manually, ok so far. As far as I see the modeller does not help to avoid (e.g. point them out or something) duplicate IDs. Might that be a feature request?
  2. Now I understand one answer I found while browsing the forum referencing a “Workspace addition” to camunda modeler. (Incorporation of Workspace). Is the answer (“not planned”) still valid?

best regards,

Stephan

This isn’t and probably won’t be implemented in the desktop modeler. Mainly because this is a developer tool and so it only matters that a process can be found in runtime, not in design time. For instance if you wanted to call a process that is deployed to the engine but is not in your workspace this is possible.

But the good news is that it’s available in cawemo - our web modeler.
This specifically a design tool so it has collaboration and workspace oriented features that you might want to use.

linkCAs

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