RE: [BPMN Forum] Different paths at the beginning of the process

[Phil McNicol]

Saker

 

Assuming you are modelling the blue sky process where you are not concerned about handling error conditions, I’d be inclined to have two processes.

 

The first process would start with the event “Two weeks before deadline for sending communication” followed by a single task of “Prepare dynamic data” and then end. The start event is different from “Each two weeks” to allow for deadlines for sending communication to be any period apart. For example, if the deadlines were a month apart, or a week apart, then you would not want to start the process every two weeks, but you would always want to start an instance of the process two weeks before every deadline, even if the process instances overlapped.

 

The second process would start with “Deadline for sending communication” and proceed with “Prepare letter” and “Send letter” and then end. My thinking is that for the letters that need dynamic data then it will have been created two weeks earlier, and for the letters that don’t need dynamic data it does not matter what happened two weeks earlier.

 

 

Phil McNicol

 

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Sent: Wednesday, 13 March 2013 3:39 AM
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Subject: [BPMN Forum] Different paths at the beginning of the process

 

Hello,

I've got a tricky situation to depict.

 

Image1 is an extract of the process of sending a letter to a customer: as you can see:

- two weeks before deadline, dinamic data are generated

- when the deadline for sending the letter comes, the letter is prepared and the letter is sent.

 

Now, for some types of letters the "Prepare dinamic data" activity is to be skipped: for these kind of letters, the start event is "Deadline for sending communication" (see Image2), so the process is simply:

- when the deadline for sending the letter comes, the letter is prepared and the letter is sent.

 

How do I represent this? Image 2 of course is not correct.

 

Thanks for your help.

Bye

 

 

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