Importing Data and Sharing Tables Across DRDs

BPMN & Modeling Discussion & Questions
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Hi, I have 2 basic questions

  1. Is it possible to import data into a decision table? One of my tables has 200 rows with output numbers like these (22.0515834158592). I’m using Modeller on OSX and you can’t cut and paste using either control+ or command+ combination. There is an excel importer on github. If you point it to an existing DMN file, it replaces the entire file and does not append the new table.

  2. Is it possible to share decision tables across files? I would like to setup multiple DRD, each with a slightly different context but that share some of the same tables. I don’t want to recreate the tables. I thought of just having separate tables and executing them in the correct sequence as part of a process, but I would rather have it being 1 DRD per business concept but with shared tables being references across DRDs.

Thanks
dre

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Hi @dre,

regarding your second question. Currently, it is not (easy) possible to share a decision across DRDs. What you can do

  1. have only one (big) DRD which contains everything
  2. use multiple DRDs which are coordinated/invoked by a BPMN process
  3. use a decision literal expression to invoke a decision of another DRD

Does this help you?

Best regards,
Philipp

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Thanks for the response.

I’ll try 2. for now.

Cheers
dre

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