How to design a loop in process?

BPMN & Modeling Discussion & Questions
1

Hi,

currently I have this two tasks in model.
First a service task calling a report to printout something, then a user task to check the output.
grafik

No the customer demand is, that the user who’s working on the user task can change a process variable and execute the print task again. This all unlimited times.

The solution I found is to add a boolean field to the user task form where the user can decide to continue in the process or do another printout and check again.
grafik

The drawback is, that I have to submit the User Task form to submit the changed data (process variables).
So a new user task is created after reprinting the report. The user has to open the newly created task.

Is there any other solution for this kind of request?

Regards, Frank

2

Hi @langfr,

I couldn’t see any wrong with your new model. It should be this way based on the business needs.

3

Hi Frank,

you could ask the user to check ‘print without doublecheck’ in the form and add a XOR-Gateway between the service- and the user task if the print should be checked. If not, you skip the user task.

Hope this helps, Ingo