Hi camundos,
is there any plan to make the Element Template feature available also for Call Activities?
We would love to be able to reuse Call Activities as configurable micro-services and element templates would be of great use here.
Thanks!
Bogdan
@Bogdan are you looking to use the templates to pre-config the variables and/or which bpmn to use?
We are looking into creating an internal communication backbone that orchestrates various communication channels (email, SMS, native app alert, Slack etc). Ideally this is a reusable call activity and the proper communication channel can be configured via a variable within the process that calls it. This variable is set either at design time by an analyst or at run time by an user.
Ah! Yes we have something VERY similar but we have been using Intermediate Message Events.
Well we want to be able to have this backbone evolve and upgrade independently, so we are interested in having this as a reusable subprocess.
And that’s just one example, basically everything we do is built around this microservice architecture, and we would like to employ the element template concept to achieve that out of the box.
Yup i get it. Same ideas on our side. In our case we use the Message Event to activate a sub-process
We are planing to address this with the next Camunda Modeler release.
Thanks Nico, highly appreciate your response!