Adding support for Receive Tasks to Event Based Gateways

@camunda any plans for Event based gateways supporting Receive Tasks?

https://docs.camunda.org/manual/7.6/reference/bpmn20/gateways/event-based-gateway/

current docs say they are not supported “yet” :wink:

Is there a specific use case you’re interested in achieving?

The only benefit i can think of… is that you get a boundary event… but you can just add that to the gateway anyway…
So not sure if it’s worth the effort :grimacing:

yes was for boundry events.

I agree with Niall, so Im interested if there is a specific use case?

If I think of a receive task with a boundary event, it could be a composite of an intermediate receive event, followed by a service task with a boundary event…

If your intent was to add a timeout on the receive task, then you could just include a timer event as one of the event flows…

regards

Rob

Using boundary events in this case is also prohibited by the BPMN specification:

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good catch.
thanks for the research