Aborting an Automatic Activity from OBPM 10GR3 workspace

Question

Hi all,
I can abort Interactive Activities from the OBPM 10GR3 workspace just by selecting that instance, the selecting the action as ABORT from the BULK ACTIONS on the right hand side and the entire instance is aborted.
But how do I abort Automatic Activities from the OBPM 10GR3 workspace?
When my instance arrives at an automatic activity, I am unable to abort it from the BPM workspace.
There is no option when you right click an Automatic Activity and select RUNTIME , which says, "If enabled, the instance can be aborted by the user".
So how do we do that ( from the OBPM 10GR3 Workspace)?

Answer 1

The "If enabled, the instance can be aborted by the user" needs to be selected when you abort via PAPI...
Since aotumatic activitys do not appear in the workspace you cannot abort them from there.
You can connect via PAPI, find the instance and abort it from another instance.
Even though must automatic activitys are built so they finish before you can even go and abort them.
I think its a strange design to have an aotumatic activity that is up long enough for you to cancel it but as i said above...
1) Select abortable on the activity.
2) Find the instance and abort
Fuego.Papi.InstanceFilter ifilter = new InstanceFilter();
ProcessService.connectTo(url : Fuego.Server.directoryURL, user :<username>, password : <password>);
ifilter.create(processService : ProcessService);
ifilter.searchScope = new SearchScope(participantScope : ParticipantScope.ALL , statusScope : StatusScope.ONLY_INPROCESS);
//Notice i write public variable and not instance variable
ifilter.addAttributeTo(variable : <public variable (such as description or one of your own)>, comparator : Comparison.<the one that fits you>, value : <value>);
Fuego.Papi.Instance[] cInstances = ProcessService.getInstancesByFilter(filter : ifilter);
foreach (instance in cInstances)
//Second type of filtering (checking current activity and process), you can check just the activity name if its a unique name
if (instance.activityName == <aotumatic activity name> && instance.processId.contains(regexp : '/<process name>/'))
instance.abort();
I use a similer code snippet to remove Interactive activities.
Just notice that you filter only the instances you really want to take down.