Process Flow - basic question

Hi
I have a very basic question about Process Flows, that will help me decide to go for process flows or custom scheduling.
I create a process flow with complex dependencies, say MapA, mapB mapC start parallely and map1 starts as soon as mapA and mapB finish, and map2 starts when all mapA, mapB and mapC finish. When both map1 and map2 finish the pflow ends. The question is
1> Is it correct to use AND activity to define combined dependencies?
2> What happens when any two mappings are running parallely and one returns in failure? Will the whole process flow finish immediately? or, the other ones will keep running? Am asking this because I would be sending the failure transition to End Error, and as per my understanding, as soon as one pflow finishes with error, the transition will take the flow to End Error and other running will be aborted in between itself.
Please correct me if am wrong
Thanks in advance
Goga

Hi,
I think the others will remain running and will complete (e.g. they will not be aborted). However the logical AND will stop the process flow (it is stopped in a result of error). Since one transition never got to the AND the others will not continue.
You may want to use some other activities to verify what is going on. You may have all mappings always go to AND, then based on what the error is (you can get that from the runtime) decide whether to abort, or to just ignore the error and run the others.
JP

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