Automatically complete pending interactive activities within a process

Question

What is the best approach for automatically completing pending interactive activities within a process?
Scenario: If you have two or more threads within a split-join and one thread completes all the defined activities whilst the other thread is still waiting for an interactive step to be completed, is there a programmatic way of completing outstanding tasks i.e remove them from the workspace task list and move then onto the next task
At the moment we have just configured the join activity to only wait for one process to complete but I was wondering if there was a way using the java api.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

What I think you're asking is how to complete activities in the split so the instance can go onto the next activity after the join. If so then use just use
Action = RELEASE;
in the join. You'll need to surround this statement with appropriate conditional statements since the code in the join runs each time an instance copy (from one of the branches) reaches the join. You'll need to test to see if the instance is ready to proceed then do the action=release.
If this is not what you want then you may need to involve something more complex, like placing a Notification Interrupt in your process. By interrupting the interactive in a split/join, you can perform these activities from within the interrupt process flow:
OK / NONE      Indicates that PBL-Method execution was successful. This is the default value.
FAIL                Indicates that the PBL-Method has failed its execution. The PBL-Method must be executed again, if it is so required.
CANCEL           PBL-Method execution is aborted.
REPEAT           Indicates that the PBL-Method execution is successful, but not recorded as completed.
RELEASE           Ends the PBL-Method execution and releases the instance from this activity.
ABORT           Ends PBL-Method execution and aborts the entire process instance.
BACK           Ends PBL-Method execution and sends the instance back to the activity where the exception (or interruption) occurred.
SKIP                Ends PBL-Method execution and sends the instance back to the activity where the exception (or interruption) occurred and skips it.
Note the last one allows you to skip the interactive upon return and go to the next activity. Sorry I can't help any further. You may want to describe you're problem some more and perhaps we can help you better.
Mark