Need help with NWDS Process Composer

[Former Member]

Hello guys, I'm really not sure if this is the right place to ask this question so please let me know if it isn't.

I'm using the Netweaver Developer Studio's Process Composer to create a Business Process, the problem I have is I'm trying to link an Activity's Boundary Event to another Subprocess that belongs to a different lane, when I create the subprocess and try to move it to the other lane the system removes the connecting line! leaving the boundary event connected to nothing! here's a sceenshot:

The problem is that the "Need Help" subprocess should fall in the "Finance Dept." lane, but if I move it there the connection to it from the "Print Receipt" activity's boundary event will be lost and the boundary even will be left with no connections.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Many thanks.

[former_member191044 · Accepted solution]

Hello Rani,

i don't know if i get your problem right but this should be possible without any issues:

Regards,

Tobias

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi, That only work when the Boundary Event is related to an independent Activity, in my case it's part of an activity that is inside a Sub-process

If I move the "Need Help" subprocess into the "Finance Dept." lane we will have two separate subprocesses and there's no way to link and activity within one subprocess to a different subprocess.

I could, though, create a Boundary event for the first Subprocess itself and link that event to the other subprocess, this will work, but then again how would you tell that this event is triggered by the "Print Receipt" activity?

[former_member191044 · Accepted solution]

Hello Rani,

now i got it. There is a possibility to do so in embedded sub-process:

1: Catch the technical error on activity

2: Create a escalation event (crititcal / non critical, both possible)

3: Catch that escalation event as boundary event of the sub process

But i have one question. Why do you have the whole "Post Payment Collection" as a subprocess and not just directly model it in the lane "Sales Employee"?

BR,

Tobias

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you, I will try that.

The "Post Payment Collection" subprocess is one of several sub-processes in that lane, Collecting customer payments is one thing that is done daily by the sales employee, there is another subprocess in that lane, which is done weekly/bi-weekly which is the hand over of the collected funds to the Finance department, and technically "on SAP Fiori & ECC" the collectiton process is done on screens (T. Code) that are different from those used for the Handover of the collected money.

Newb question: Am I going the right way by doing that? I decided to make two sub-processes based on the fact that Technically each process is handled differently on the system, and the fact that they are executed on different intervals (Daily vs. Weekly/B-weekly).

[former_member191044 · Accepted solution]

Are those two "main" subprocesses depending on each other? Or why you do not create a own process for each? Actually you have one process that only consist of subprocesses as far as i can see from the provided information. This seems pretty much like a bad design for me. But as is said, i don't know the whole details of your requirement.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

You know what Tobias, you're right, I've been going about this whole process the wrong way, I will restructure the whole thing.

Thank you very much for the help.