I’ve been exploring the features and capabilities of Camunda 8 and noticed that support for certain BPMN elements, specifically Conditional and Signal Events, seems to be limited or not present. As these elements are quite crucial for various business scenarios, I wanted to understand the reasoning behind this decision.
Questions:
Lack of Support: Why are Conditional and Signal Events not supported in Camunda 8? Were there specific technical or strategic reasons for this decision?
Future Plans: Are there any plans to introduce support for Conditional and Signal Events in future releases of Camunda 8? If so, is there an expected timeline for these features to be available?
Workarounds or Alternatives: In the meantime, what are the recommended workarounds or alternative approaches for implementing similar functionalities that these events provide?
Signal Events are indeed currently supported in Camunda 8 you can read details about them here in the docs.
Conditional Events are not yet supported in Camunda 8 - they are indeed a complicated symbol to implement and in fact was one of the last symbols that Camunda 7 implemented. That said - we’re working on complete feature parity in Camunda 8 for everything supported in Camunda 7. Conditional Events will indeed be implemented, I haven’t seen the latest roadmap yet but i think probably not in the next release.
There are indeed a lot of potential work-arounds for folks who would like to use the conditional event, but each depends on the specific problem they’re trying to solve.