Best way to handle 50 different decisions?

[DougA]

I'm working on my outage process and I need to set up a decision for each of 50 different fire stations. Every station has to be tested and if the condition is true it creates a connection for the station. If no match it simply bypasses and goes onto the next station. What I've found is that you can't have two inputs into a decision node so I've created a dummy task as a workaround. Is this best way to do it? If so,  is there a truly dummy task?

Alternatively I could set up a series of parallel processes with perhaps 5 decisions in each. It certainly seems a more elegant solution but is it a better solution?

 

Thanks

Doug

[Dan Munns]

hi @DougA

I have a large amount of decisions set up in both my progressive capture and business processes.

I would probably go with the progressive capture style setup in your case though.

I think that with the parallel processing you will have to have a process within a process to make sure that the next part of the bpm is started at the correct time or you might find that the first parallel process completes and just goes onto the next node without the end processes been completed which may cause a problem.

I have a process within a process BPM set up and it was a bit of a night mare to get working (I have attached if for interest more than anything)

Hope that helps

Dan

 

[Victor]

And here I thought our internal processes are complicated... I'll never say this again  

[Dan Munns]

@Victor

The first two are straight forward to be honest. They just look a bit of a mare.

The last one was a nightmare and was a lot of trial and error to find out what worked. Still unsure as to why or how it works though.....

[Victor]

@Dan Munns when it comes to business process engine I sometimes only can think of magic as the answer... but yeah, I can understand is not that complicated but complex, well... nodes... so many nodes... must...keep...sanity... 

 

[Dan Munns]

@Victor hence the googly eyes <---

Once I get into the swing of BPM creating it doesn't usually take that long so my sanity is rarely effected (cant lose what you never had some would say)

But two parallels in a parallels is an Inception level of BPM I never want to have to recreate.

Now I am trying to get my head around dashboards, measures and widgets whilst our Dev dept sort out their requirements for Service Manager.

Now that seems to be slowly removing any sanity I may or may not have had in the first place......

[Victor]

Sorry @DougA (and @Dan Munns), I drifted a bit...  .. @Dan Munns is correct, you would need something like his example... perhaps not as complex  ... As a "dummy" task perhaps you can use a "Get Request Information" node...