WLPI: managing sub-workflows

Hi,
I read in the documentation that WLPI supports the notion of sub- or child-workflows.
I was wondering how this is implemented exactly. Let's say I have one parent workflow
consisting of 1 task. This task starts 10 child workflows, each of which will
have to complete before we can mark the parent's task as completed. How does WLPI
support this? Do I have to write custom code that is executed upon completion
of every child workflow, to check whether all child workflows have completed
and, if so, mark the parent task completed? Or is there built-in support for this
scenario?
THanks,
Martin

There is built-in functionality for this.
Martin van Vliet wrote:
Hi,
I read in the documentation that WLPI supports the notion of sub- or child-workflows.
I was wondering how this is implemented exactly. Let's say I have one parent workflow
consisting of 1 task. This task starts 10 child workflows, each of which will
have to complete before we can mark the parent's task as completed. How does WLPI
support this? Do I have to write custom code that is executed upon completion
of every child workflow, to check whether all child workflows have completed
and, if so, mark the parent task completed? Or is there built-in support for this
scenario?
THanks,
Martin

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