How to integrate a wizard into a BPMN process

Question

The current project I work on I shall model a business process (as they call it) with BPMN. The user interface is mostly completed. It's a web fronted based on AngularJS. There is also a wizard which should be used for user interaction during the business process. In my humble opinion every page of that wizard could be assigned to a single user task (bpmn).

Unexpectedly the wizard should behave like a wizard. There are buttons for the next and previous page and modal dialogs and a finish button. I'm worry about whether that behavior will work together with a bpmn engine or not if I model user tasks per wizard page.

Question:

Would you model a wizard with BPMN?
Should this BPMN be a runnable BPMN or traditionally implemented (e.g. plain AngularJS)?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 14 '16 at 18:13

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I would model this wizard using BPMN task only if each wizard "pages" are actually independent tasks. For example if each task can potentially be performed by different users I think that make sense to model that as a sequence of BPMN task.

If a single user go through all the wizard quickly I would suggest to implement all the logic in AngularJS.

answered Mar 14 '16 at 18:13

Antoine Mottier

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Nice. That's the same thought I had but because I'm new to BPMN I was a little uncertain about it. – Easterwood Mar 15 '16 at 13:24

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 04 '16 at 12:07

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No. One task per role/swimlane, not a string-of-pearls within the same swimlane. A major point of using a structured process is getting handovers right and here there are none. Also, the performance will be bad.

answered Apr 04 '16 at 12:07

mEdling

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How to integrate a wizard into a BPMN process

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