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Business Process Model and Notation — All Issues

  • Acronym: BPMN
  • Issues Count: 442
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Key Issue Reported Fixed Disposition Status
BPMN12-34 Section: 9.4, 9.4.1, 9.4.2 BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-33 Clarify association of artifacts to flows BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-32 BPMN does not have a symbol for a physical storage facility BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-31 BPMN does not explicitly identify a model element for "approval." BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-30 Page: Page 1 (PDF page 25) BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN2-301 Text User Task instead of Manual Task BPMN 2.0 BPMN 2.0.1 Resolved closed
BPMN2-300 Page 345. “Sub-Choreographies” instead of “Choreography Activities” BPMN 2.0 BPMN 2.0.1 Resolved closed
BPMN2-299 None Events not for catch Intermediate Event BPMN 2.0 BPMN 2.0.1 Resolved closed
BPMN2-298 Conditional Event instead of Error Event BPMN 2.0 BPMN 2.0.1 Resolved closed
BPMN2-297 Page 181. Wrong reference to table 10.20 BPMN 2.0 BPMN 2.0.1 Resolved closed
BPMN2-296 Conflicting content regarding choreographies. BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Closed; No Change closed
BPMN2-295 Page 203, Table 10-26, MultiInstance Activity: What is the intended use case if the catching boudnary event is interrupt BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN11-33 The list of supporting objects in B.11 is incomplete BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-32 Gate is a common feature of Gateways BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-22 Message/Property/Assignment relations are too complex BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-21 Message Flow ordering along Pool (abst process) is modeled only graphically BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-35 p. 282, Table 137 BPMN 1.0 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-34 The concept of "Trigger" in ambiguous in the BPMN specification BPMN 1.0 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-29 BPEL faults BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-28 BPMN spec doesn't include join condition BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-31 Specify persistent format BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-30 enhance BPMN to provide 'resource modeling'. BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-27 partner links are not modeled in BPMN explicitly. BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-26 correlation set BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-24 BPEL/WSDL specific properties BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-23 Reference Task does not define any way to pass parameters and values BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-25 BPEL->BPMN mapping problem BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-53 Events in subprocesses BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-52 BPMN: Interrupt Intermediate Event BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-58 Implicit State Machine for Activities BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-57 Multiple None Start Events inside of a sub-process BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-51 BPMN: Complex triggers BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-50 Multiple Triggers with 'and' semantics BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-49 BPMN: Attribute definitions BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-56 Inclusive Event-Based Decision BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-55 Extending activities with execution time (traversal time) attributes? BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-63 Where are tokens queued? BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-62 Clarify whether pools require their activites to be centrally coordinated BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-61 Do artifact flows affect execution BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-60 Defining "Main" Pool in diagram BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-59 Is it valid to have a pool nested within a Lane, BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-54 Provide ExpressionLanguage attribute for the element Expression BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-80 UML class diagram in the appendix BPMN 1.0 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-79 examples in section 10.2.1 Normal Flow (02) BPMN 1.0 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-87 Section: 9.3.4 Intermediate [Events] BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-86 BPMN Task Attribute "TaskType" Value-related Message Flow Restrictions BPMN 1.0 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-85 Add Project Management dependencies for activities (FF, FS, SF, SS) BPMN 1.0 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-81 Use of link events to synchronize behaviour BPMN 1.0 BPMN 1.1 Duplicate or Merged closed
BPMN11-83 question raised by Issue 9321 nor addresses by issue 9319 BPMN 1.0 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-82 Move Sequence Flow Conditions to Gates BPMN 1.0 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-78 examples in section 10.2.1 Normal Flow (01) BPMN 1.0 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-89 confusion regarding diagram 10.25 BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-88 Section: 10:2.1 Normal Flow BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-84 Should Exception Events be allowed to have no Outgoing Sequence Flow? BPMN 1.0 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-15 fundamental semantic model of token flows BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-14 differentiate a business message from a business signal BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-13 shared collaboration BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-12 Need consistent terminology for Categories, Core Elements BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-20 Some references are not explicit BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-19 Containment structure is unclear for non-graphical elements BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-11 Which is it, Core Elements, or Flow Objects?. BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-18 BPEL mapping definition is imprecise BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-17 how to model a process where more than one participant (pool) plays a part BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-16 Is BPMN just a notation? BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-74 Clarify the scope and usage of Compensation Events BPMN 1.0 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-73 Change the activity Marker for Multiple Instance activities BPMN 1.0 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-72 Culturally significant icons BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-71 no way to graphically differentiate an Embedded Subprocess BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-65 BPMN spec not clear on separation of data/display regarding pools and lanes BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-64 Page: 23 BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-77 References to Annex D and there is no Annex D in this specification BPMN 1.0 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-76 The direction arrow for association seems backwards BPMN 1.0 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-70 Section: 10.1.3 BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-75 Specify return type of ComplexMI_FlowCondition BPMN 1.0 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-69 Add a UML Profile to the BPMN specification BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-68 The Reference Task and Reference Subprocess should be removed BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-67 Section: 8.1, Table 8.1 BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-66 Section: 7.1.1/Note BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-38 Definition of "Rule" BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-37 Link does not have clear semantics BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-36 BPMN TaskType Attribute BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-46 MessageFlows to a subprocess boundary BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-45 DataObject attributes BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-42 Intermediate Events with outgoing Message Flow BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-41 Tasks with multiple outgoing message flows BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-44 "Quantity" attribute BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-43 "StartQuantity" attribute BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-40 Independent Subprocess BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-39 IORules attribute BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-47 Optional Start/End Events BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-48 "Exception" trigger BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN2-246 BPMN CMOF File problems BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-245 Mutiple depictions of a single semantic element BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-244 Depictable element without a reference semantic element BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-249 The example provided in Figure 10-22 and its serilization in Table 10-19 are incorrect or at least misleading BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-248 Add an attribute that can identify a rulebase/rule engine for Business Rule Task BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Closed; No Change closed
BPMN2-247 Confusing semantics for Terminate End Event BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-237 Ambiguity when multiple message flows associated with a choreography task BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-251 ResourceParameter::type attribute should be of type ItemDefinition, not Element BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-250 Parallel Event Based Gateway capability is hidden away BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-239 Inconsistent/confusing statements around CallActivities and IOSpecifications BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-243 Table 10-4 page 162 List of possible states of an Activity instance BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-242 Clarify "Instance of this Conversation." BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-241 Change plural "flow" to "flows" BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-240 Correlation key property values from process instances BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-252 Clarification of Temporal Sematics of Sequence Flow BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-238 Exclusive Gateway (missing sub-heading) BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-273 For DI: All graphical elements should have a Semantic Counterpart BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-272 Review the use of RFC2119 keywords BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-277 Rename "Call" Elements BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-276 XML Schema is not strict enough BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-282 Missing loopCharacteristics for Choreography stuff in MM BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-281 Figure 12-21, Sub-process marker missing BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-280 Mismatch in DataAssociation definition between spec and XSD BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-279 Receive Task is not mentioned as an instantiating element BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-278 Merge Collaboration and Choreography in Metamodel BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-284 Missing in XML example BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-283 Missing label of a compensation activity BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-286 Missing marker in Compensation Activity BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-285 Process Model and Model Description are not consistent BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-274 Allow referencing scripts instead of enfocing inline specification BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-275 How to reference particular instances of Data Objects that are Collections BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-271 Choreography should be a Sub-Class of Collaboration BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-270 Additional participants in called/subconversation BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-261 Hexagons and message flow linked to activities BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-260 For Process within Collaboration, section 9.3 title is wrong and section 10.11 is empty BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-264 Data Objects should be defined with the same pattern a Data Stores and DataStoreRefs BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-263 Correlation on message flow and choreography activities BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-262 Label call conversation links BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-257 LaneSet should have an optional ‘name’ attribute BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-256 Simplify Use of Callable Elements BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-266 No way to identify the format of Documentation and TextAnnotation connect BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-265 Extending via inheritancy is problematic using the BPMN xsd format BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-259 How to represent Process Diagrams and Lanes? BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-258 Figure 10.121 mis-described BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-254 CorrelationKey should be a concrete element BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-253 Required definitions to invoke an existing function by means of a service task BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-268 Add Attribute Table for Global Task BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-267 Incorrect attribute name used for Start Event definition BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-269 Contradictory/redundant handing of data and subprocesses BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-255 DataInputs, DataOuputs, and DataStores should be FlowElements BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-291 Missing definition of the participant Buyer BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-290 Exporter Information Required for BPMN 2 files BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-289 Inclusive Gateway Semantics BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-288 Missing Message Flow BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-287 Choreography is not enforcable BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-294 The Two Multi-Instance Markers should be reversed BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-293 A Collaboration should be able to reference more than one Choreography BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-292 Conversation lanes BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-30 Reference Subprocess BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-29 Time intervals modeling is imprecise BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-35 SubProcessRef BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-5 Section 6 of the current specification should be moved as an appendix BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-4 BPMN comment BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-3 Sec. 6.16 BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-6 Mapping to BPEL should be moved to the appendix BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-1 Business Process Diagrams BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-2 BPMN comment: additional artifacts BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-24 restriction to be placed on the number of tokens BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-23 optional description attribute BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-22 BPMN Adopted Spec issue - Clarify behavior of Error intermediate event BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-21 Section: 4.6 BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-20 Is it really the Complete Set? BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-19 Are there 3 or are there 4 Standard Artifacts? BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-27 Section 12 of the specification should be moved as is to an appendix BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-26 Diagram with an "Invisible Pool" BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-28 Section 4.3.3 Reference to "missing" shape BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-25 Clarify why BPMN separates data and sequence BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-13 Ambiguous notations for Association BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-12 No means to define Categories BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-7 Unclear whether BPEL is part of Conformance BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN11-7 Attributes not explained with respect to Notation BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN-18 Which is it, (OR-Join) or (XOR) Gateway? BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-17 unclear what Figure 13 on p. 71 represents BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-16 complicated notation BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN11-10 Semantical difference between activity models and BPMN BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-6 Missing examples BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-9 Unclear what complete syntax is for an Attribute BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN11-8 Sequence Flow is not a Flow Object BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.1 Resolved closed
BPMN-15 Ambiguous notations for OR BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-14 Unclear semantics of Group BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-11 BPEL mapping hard to follow BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-10 BPEL over-pervasive in document BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-9 compliance level to cover core elements/simple business modeling BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-8 Irrelevant conformance point BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-31 Definition of "Expression" BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-33 Role association to subprocesses BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-32 Performers BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN-34 Start Events with triggers on a subprocess BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-236 INCORRECT/IMCOMPLETE REFERENCES AND DEFINITIONS IN GLOSSARY BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-153 parallelMultiple attribute missing from CatchEvent table BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-152 CorrelationSubscription - Description & use-cases BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-154 The Category section has incorrect/inconsistent content BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-157 V0.9.7: Section 10 Process: Add ProcessResource Attribute to Process BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-156 Notation for supports association BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-151 XML-Schema type for 'from' and 'to' elements in Data Assignment must not be abstract BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-150 XSD: mixed="true" is redundant in tFormalExpression element BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-149 Multiple PartnerEntities per Participant BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-160 Beta 1 Section 12.4 Choreography Activities: Fix redundancy in the definition of these elements BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-159 Beta 1 Section 2.2 Process Execution Conformance: Describe this conformance apart from Process Modeling Conformance BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-158 Use "item" terminology more uniformly BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-148 Service Task => Operation Task BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-155 Editorial: Incorrect containment statement for EventDefinitions BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-110 Misleading copy/paste para regarding Properties BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-102 URL referenced for WfMC Gloassary is incorrect BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-101 Definition of Participant Band Shadings not clear BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-108 Missing DataStore from the enumeration of item-awre elements at top of the page BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-107 Merge Conversation and Collaboration BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-111 Section 10.2.3 BPMN 1.2 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-100 Variable Id TO Variation Id BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-99 The schema for globalTasks of type Send ,Receive and Service are not there BPMN 1.1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-106 Conversation Muddle BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-105 Correlation on Choregraphy BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-104 Typo in Section 7.2 paragraph 1 BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-109 Missing details regarding the visualisation of a DataState for a DataObject BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-103 URL referenced for XPDL specification is incorrect BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-143 Need to revisit and test the process example in the spec (Figure 7-8) BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-142 Service Package => Interface Package BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-147 Lanes and Sequence Flow BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-146 Grouping message flow in Collaboration BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-137 CorrelationSubscription Ownership BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-138 Semantic metamodel => Abstract syntax BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-144 Error class has no 'name' attribute BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-140 Conversation/Communication switch BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-141 Choreography Subprocess => Subchoreography BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-145 Typo in Terminate Event description BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-139 MessageFlowRefs missing from Conversation metamodel diagram BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-117 Beta 1 Section 11 Conversation: BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-116 Private process example correction BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-112 Multiple properties / keys clarification BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-115 isImmediate default BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-114 Subprocess / CallActivity switch BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-123 Processes supporting interactions BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-122 Private process type BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-118 Complex gateway merging rule in choreography too restrictive BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-121 Conversation/Process switch BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-113 Key-based Correlation => ? BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-120 Correlation Class Diagram missing Process association BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-119 Promote correlationKeys association to ConversationContainer BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-220 Cardinality of the "sourceRef" association between DataAssociation and ItemAwareElement BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-219 Unclear/contradictory handling of visualized Data Inputs/Outputs BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-218 Data Inputs/Outputs on Subprocesses BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-213 Can a sub-process (embedded) have Lanes? BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-212 Section 10.2.3 ScriptTask.scriptLanguage needs to specify format BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-215 Section 12.4.1 [Choreo] How many message flows per choreography task? Missing meta-model BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-214 Section 8.3.15 [Choreo] ParticipantMultiplicity must allow to specify 1..2, possibly also 0..1 BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-211 Section 10.5.1/10.5.6 Need to clarify how initiating gateway is specifed: via sequence flow, attribute, or both BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-217 Formalizing the Source-Target relationships between Link Intermediate Event BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-216 Allow Choreographies within a Conversation Diagram BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-210 General [Metamodel] Double-check attributes that are enumerated types, and their extensibility needs BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-209 Section 9.2: Pool description needs revisiting BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-221 Data Inputs the target of multiple Data Associations BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-208 Default execution semantics for an activity with multiple incoming branches needs to be clarified BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-133 Are Conditional Start Events executable? BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-132 Contradiction in constraint for Start Events in Event Subprocess BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-129 Error vs ErrorCode & Escalation vs EscalationCode BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-125 Choreography Complex Gateway example BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-124 Exclusive gateways in choreography cover splitting but not merging BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-128 Fix difference between MessageFlowNode definition in specification vs the semantic.xmi file BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-127 Meaning of + symbol on Communication undefined BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-131 Mention of "isInterrupting" attribute still in the spec BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-130 Incorrect description for the Transaction.protocol attribute BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-135 Section 11 Conversation: Fix Conversation figures for proper notation for Pools BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-136 Merge Conversation and Collaboration BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-134 Correlation Key & Correlation Properties are missing 'name' attributes BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-126 isClosed on Conversation BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-230 Property name mismatch between Spec and Schema for Item Definition BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-229 "isInterrupting" attribute of Start Events BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-224 Event marker quality is poor BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-223 Persistent versus transient event trigger BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-232 Reference ProcessRef missing in Figure 8.40 - The Participant Class Diagram BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-231 The Message element structureRef association should be renamed to itemRef BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-234 Execution semantics for Data Objects and Properties must be enhanced to properly describe concurrent modification situat BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-233 Does CallChoreography need a MessageFlowAssociation? BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-226 Called conversations without keys of the caller BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-228 Allow Overlapping Matrix Construction of Lanes in a Diagram BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-227 Order of outgoing sequence flows from exclusive gateway BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-222 The description of operationRef is not accurate BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-235 Visibility and permissions for Data Objects and Properties must be described BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-225 Confusion about Performers and other roles that Resources play for Activities BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-203 Generalize message flow BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-202 Semantics for data flow without sequence flow BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-201 Enabling multiple events at the same time for the same message BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-197 Annex D Glossary [Specification]: Update Glossary BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-200 Section 10.3.1 [Data-MM]: Events can contain properties but the relationship is not shown in the MM diagram BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-199 Business Rule Task description doesn't describe purpose (section 10.2.3, Beta 1) BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-198 Tasks vs Global Tasks BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-196 Section 8.1.5 [Infra] Import statement description is not clear enough BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-195 Section 2 Conformance [Specification]: Explicitly define BPMN compliance criteria, with focus on "model" BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-205 Section 10.2.8 [Execution Semantics] Loops: Loop names misleading BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-204 Reuse of processes in orchestration and choreography BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-192 Pools multiplicity BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-191 [Meta-model] Exclusive gateway is missing specification of order of leaving sequence flows BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-190 Diagram Interchange should align with Diagram Type Definition BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-207 Section 10.2.5: Sub-Process: Figure 10.25; Add a minus sign to the bottom of an expanded Sub-Process? BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-206 Section 8.2.1 [Service Model] How to model a request-reply use case? BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-194 Data flow in/out of events BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-193 Beta 1: Section 10.3.1 Data Objects [Data]: Change Multiplicity of datastate attribute from 0..1 to 0..* BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-187 Beta 1: Is a Message a DataInput for an Activity; Is Message Flow a Data Association BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-186 Beta 1 [Section 12.1.2] - Use of the term "BPMN" in class names BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-185 Beta 1 [Section 12.1.2] - OrchestrationDiagram should be called ProcessDiagram BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-184 Relationship navigation (both in MM and XSD) BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-183 Beta 1: Section 10.2 Activities: Reference Task and Sub-Process from BPMN 1.1 not in BPMN 2.0 BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-176 Global Task should have performer, Call Activity should have capability to overwrite performer BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-182 Aliases for imported definitions BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-181 Beta 1: Section 10.2 Activities: Move User Task Instance Attributes to the higher level Activity element BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-189 [Section 10.2.3] Editorial BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-188 [Section 10.6] Editorial: We need more explicit descriptions of Compensation behaviour regarding scopes BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-180 Add business-level presentation attributes to user task: subject and description BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-179 Data Association should be specialized from Association BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-175 Editorial: Rename FlowElement::categoryValue to ::categoryValueRef BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-174 Data Assignment 'from' and 'to' should be formal expressions BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-177 [XSD] Documentation and ScriptTask (and probably expressions) should be stored as CData elements and not String attribut BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-178 Lanes should be described in Process section BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-169 Beta 1: Section 10.4.5 Handling Events: When does the interrupting Event Sub-Process cancel its Parent? BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-168 TimerEventDefinition: clarification of the expected result of the timeCycle and timeDate expressions BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-167 Correlation properties must have name and type (was dropped in 4/22 XSD and MM) BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-166 tActivityResource::resourceRef should be optional BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-165 Section 10.3.1 Data Inputs and Outputs: Schema change: change minOccurs of inputSet for ioSpecification from 0 to 1 BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-172 Beta 1: Set the name attribute of DataInputs and DataOutputs to optional BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-171 V0.9.9.1: Display of Messages and Associations in Choreography BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-164 XSD DataAssociation should own source and target refs and mistake in text spec BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-163 DataAssociations: How do we support literals? BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-162 Metaelement missing for DI to show connection between ChoreographyActivity to Message BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-170 Beta 1: Section 10.4 Events: Statement "Signals are triggers generated in the Pool they are published" needs clarificati BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-173 XSD: Data Association sourceRef and targetRef should be of type QName BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-161 Beta 1 Section 13.2.4 ChoreographyActivityShape: Add Choreography Activity Bands to DI model BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-98 logic error in the PDF document BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-97 Target namespace mismatch between the XML Schemas in the spec (PDF) and the XML Schemas files (XSD) BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-95 Clarification on relationship between MEP and Choreography Task in BPMN2 BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-94 Initiating message flow for ChoreographyTask BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-92 Page 160, Figure 10-6 vs. Table 10-3. The "property" class is not depicted in the class diagram Figure 10-6 BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-91 Page 161, Table 10-3, Error in attribute name. "resources" should be "activityResource" BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-93 Page 161, Table 10-3, Issues regarding properties in the Activity attribute table BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-96 Allow Choreography Task to have more than 2 Participants BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN12-29 Figure 10.2 - A Conditional Sequence Flow BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-22 precisions about the Signal Event BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-21 Common Gateway Features BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-28 Figure 9.23 - An Inclusive Decision using Conditional Sequence Flow BPMN 1.0b1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-27 Figure A.35 BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-25 Figure A.33 is missing an artefact BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-24 Figure A.31 is an invalid BPMN 1.1 model BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-19 Sequence Flow Connection BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-18 Glossary issue BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-20 Glossary (Adobe p321): under Trigger BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-26 Figure A.34 is missing an artefact BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-23 Figure A.30 is an invalid BPMN 1.1 model BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-16 Table A.10 editorial BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-15 Table A.10 BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-14 Table 9.13 BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-17 Glossary BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN12-13 Table 9.2 BPMN 1.1 BPMN 1.2 Resolved closed
BPMN2-3 The case of some attribute name is not consistent. BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-2 Typos BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-1 Conformance Classes are overley Broad BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-6 Page 052, Table 7-2, Wrong figure of all event possibilities BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-5 Page 227 Table 10-56 the attributes optionalOutput and whileExecutingOuput are wrongly typed DataInput BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-4 Page 199 class model for the global tasks BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-8 Page 029, Section 2.1.3 Usage of normal bullets vs diamond shape to indicate structural specifications BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-7 Page 199, Figure 10-40 Types of Global Task (Text,Class Diagram and Schema do not match) BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-9 Page 044, Figure 7-3, Pool names not separated from content by a single line BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-21 Page 044, Figure 7-4, The initiating party is wrongly identified in the figure BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-20 Page 395, Figure 12-51, Intermediate Event instead of End Event in Choreography diagram BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-19 Page 115, Section 8.3.13 Copy/paste BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-25 Page 351, Figure 12-7 Caption of the Figure Name BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-24 Page 348, Section 12.3.1, end of sentence confusing BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-23 Page 346, Section 12.1 Reference of Figure 12-4 instead of Figure 12-3? BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-22 Page 345, Section 12.1 Typo, the word "Events" should be "Activities" BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-14 Page 372, Table 12-7 Blank sections BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-13 Page 338, section 11.7 Section name versus content BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-17 Page 064, Section 7.5.1, wrong reference to Table 8.4 (should be Table 7-3) BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-16 Page 042, Section 7.1.1 Reference to Figure 10-5 BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-12 Page 259, Table 10-82, Missing "Catch" label above depiction of Parallel Multiple Event BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-11 Page 130, section 8.3.17 Copy/Paste error BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-15 Page 028, Section 1, Missing Conversation diagram in list of diagrams defined in BPMN BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-18 Page 065, Section 7.5.2, Wrong reference to Table 8.5 (Should be Table 7-4) BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-10 Page 119, section 8.3.14 Copy/Paste error wrong term "Pool" vs "Message Flow" BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-84 text attribute is missing from the Documentation element of the v 0.9.14 schema BPMN 1.1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-83 BPMN 2 FTF issue on XSDs for DD / DI model transfer BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-88 Method of specifying a default SequenceFlow is awkward BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-87 Lane.partitionElementRef incorrectly defined BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-82 Page 24, Table 7.2 Gateway control types row - Redundant forms for XOR Gateway BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-81 Page 121, Figures 7.3 and 10-1 ­ Redundant ways to model receiving messages BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-90 Page 204, Table 10-26, MultiInstance Activity: Potential error and clarification regarding **BehaviorEventRef BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-89 businessRuleTask element in the BPMN 2.0 schema file is missing the implementation attribute BPMN 1.1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-86 Semantic.xsd v0.9.14, sect. 8.2.1, p76-77 BPMN 1.1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-85 Sematic.xsd vs. v0.9.14, sect. 8.3.7, pp106-107 BPMN 1.1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-80 Page 26, Normal Flow row of Table 7.2 - Modeling Activities that are only ended by Events BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-79 Page 26, Normal Flow row of Table 7.2 - Modeling activities that do not complete before process completion BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-78 Page 22, Section 7.2.1 ­ Associating Data Objects with process as a whole BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-67 Page 331, Figure 11-4, Message Flows part of a Conversation diagram BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-77 Page 29, Section 7.2.2 ­ Fork and Join Differentiation BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-76 Page 121, Figure 10-1 - Redundant ways to model receiving messages BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-73 Page 22, Section 7.2.1 - Associating Data Objects with process as a whole BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-72 Page 190, sub-section "Transaction" BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-74 Page 26, Normal Flow row of Table 7.2 BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-69 Page 361, Figure 12-23, Sub-process marker missing BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-68 Page 337, section 11.5 Typo should be "Call Conversation" BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-75 Page 26, Normal Flow row of Table 7.2 BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-70 Page 032, section 2.4.1, Referencing wrong chapter BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-71 Page 076, Figure 8-5, Figure Caption incorrect BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-57 Page 244, section 10.4.2 Last two structural specifications for Start Event BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-56 Page 187, Do sub-process markers also apply for Call Activity and Event Subprocess BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-61 Page 253, section 10.4.3 End Event Sequence Flow Connections BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-60 Page 192, Table 10-21 Transaction types need explanation BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-65 Page 265, Sequence Flow Connections for Intermediate Events BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-64 Page 265, Activity Boundary Connections BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-62 Page 255, Message Flow connection for End Event BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-59 Page 251, Exceptions for Sequence Flow connections for Start Event BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-55 Page 159, Section 10.1.2 number of types of diagrams BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-58 Page 247 section Start Event for Event Sub-Processes BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-66 Page 328, Section 11, Communication Link or Conversation Link BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-63 Page 257, Intermediate Event Types in Normal flow BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-47 Page 223, Figure 10-57 Unclear usage of IsCollection attribute for DataOutput BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-46 Page 149, Figure 9-6 Multi-instance marker no depiction for white box pools BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-45 Page 149, Figure 9-6 Vertical pool markers placement depiction BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-50 Page 028, Section 1, Wrong term for BPMN : Business Process Modeling Notation BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-49 Page 115-120 Distinguishing Initiating and Non-Inititating Messages BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-54 Page 153, Figure10-1, Link Events not paired may lead to confusion BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-53 Page 056, Table 7-2, Compensation Association: Usage of term Compensate Event BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-43 Page 063, Section 7.4 Undefined term "Flow" BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-42 Page 050, 061 and 417 Group text implies that only activites can be within a Group BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-52 Page 054, Table 7-2, Gateway Control Types: Incomplete statement BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-51 Page 049, Table 7-1 Depiction of Lanes with single lines to separate Lane name to Lane content BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-41 Page 060, Table 7-2, Merging: No depiction of implicit merge BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-40 Page 058, Table 7-2, Fork: Questionable affirmation BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-44 Page 187, Figure 10-27 Inconsistent use of class hierarchy vs. attributes to define types of subprocess BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-48 Page 253 and 257, Table 10-81 and 10-82 EventDefintion used for Events BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-28 Page 357, Figure 12-17 and 12-18 Participant names not identical BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-27 Page 353, Figure 12-11, inapropriate caption BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-26 Page 352, Figure 12-9, inapropriate caption BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-34 Page 408, Section 13.2.5 Event Sub-process not included BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-33 Page 242-243 Tables 10-75 and 10-76 BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-32 Page 243, Table 10-76 eventDefinitionRefs and eventDefinitions descriptions BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-31 Page 242, Table 10-75 eventDefintionsRefs and eventDefinitions descriptions are identical BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-30 Page 175, Table 10-11, Spelling of Business in Attribute Name BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-29 Page 370, Table 12-6, references to Event Sub-Process BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-37 Page 243 Table 10-76 the definition of EventDefinitionRefs and eventDefinitions is duplicated in ThrowEvent and CatchEve BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-36 Page 165, Table 10-7 Required attribute cardinality explicitly defined BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-39 Page 047, Section 7.2 Properties is presented as a Data element BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-38 The attribute name is duplicated across many, many, many classes BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed
BPMN2-35 Page 331, Typo Figure references 11-3 but should be 11-4 BPMN 2.0b1 BPMN 2.0 Resolved closed

Issues Descriptions

Section: 9.4, 9.4.1, 9.4.2

  • Key: BPMN12-34
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11634
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: TIBCO ( Justin Brunt)
  • Summary:

    We have been puzzling over the meaning of the MultiIinstance Paralllel Marker and believe that there’s a conflict in the description. We saw this in the 1.0 specification and then checked to see if the 1.1 specification had changed in any way but found it to be the same. We believe there needs to be clarification around the MultipleInstance loop MI_Ordering attribute with regards to the task marker symbol that should be used. Here’s the basic description (we’re giving table/figure references from v 1.1 draft of BPMN spec).… BPMN spec says that Standard loop will look like Figure 9.15 Image 1 And Multi Instance loop will look like Figure 9.15 Image 2 However in Table 9.20 Multi-Instance Loop Activity Attributes in the MI_Ordering attribute description it clearly states that… If set to Parallel, the Parallel marker SHALL replace the Loop Marker at the bottom center of the activity shape (see Figure 9.9 and Table 9.18). This suggests that a Multi-Instance Loop task that is set to sequential would actually have the Standard Loop Marker. The question is, which statement is correct, the first… “Standard Loop activities will have a marker that is a circle with an arrow and Multi-Instance Loop activities will have a marker that is two parallel vertical lines” Or the second… “A Parallel Multi-Instance activity will have a marker that is two parallel vertical bars. Standard loops and sequential multi-instance activities will have a marker that is a circle with an arrow on it”. These statements made in the BPMN spec seem to be contradictory. Now, to us, whether the task instances are performed in parallel or sequential is the most significant thing to display visually on the diagram. And therefore we actually think that the second statement should be true. However, whether the condition is evaluated once or on each loop iteration could also be significant enough to be visible in the diagram. We actually think that there are 3 significant pieces of information that BPMN is trying to convey with only 2 markers and associated attributes. § Separate Task instances are run in parallel. § Separate Task instances are run sequentially, and if so… o The loop exit condition is a Boolean expression and is re-evaluated on each loop iteration. o The condition is a Numeric expression that is evaluated only once before loop begins and specifies a maximum value for LoopCounter. We think that there are 2 possibilities to overcome this problem and clarify the meaning… 1) Add a new value to the Standard Loop TestTime attribute – OnceBefore – this states that the expression is numeric and specifies the number of loop iterations. Then remove the MI_Ordering attribute i.e. all Multi-Instance loops are parallel. It may be useful to introduce a new marker symbol to distinguish between OneBefore and Before/After (if it is deemed significant enough to been seen at diagram level). 2) Leave all the attributers as they are but introduce a new marker symbol for “The condition is a Numeric expression that is evaluated only once before loop begins and specifies a maximum value for LoopCounter” (i.e. a Multi-Instance Loop with MI_Ordering set to sequential. In either case, if all three pieces of information are deemed significant enough to been seen at diagram level, here are our suggestions… Multi-Instance + Parallel - use parallel bar symbol Standard Loop Before/After (Evaluated On every iteration) … You could, also distinguish between before and after by say, turning the symbol upside down for evaluate-before… Because the circle as a break in it then it suggests (maybe?) that the process engine stops to re-evaluate things each time round the loop. Multi-Instance + Sequential (or new Standard Loop + OnceBefore… Use circle with no break Because the circle has no break in it then it suggests (maybe?) that the process engine already knows how many times to go around.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 01:53 GMT

Clarify association of artifacts to flows

  • Key: BPMN12-33
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11601
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    In clause 9.7.2 and 10.1.4, it is stated that a data object artifact can be associated with a (Sequence or Message) Flow.
    But the meaning of association with a Sequence Flow is not
    clearly stated.

    In Figure 9.40 there is an example of an association of a data object to a Sequence Flow between two Activities. Is such an association only permitted when the Flow is between two Activities? Is it permitted when the flow is between an Activity and a Gateway?

    For example, could Figure 9.40 have two activities on the right, with an exclusive data gateway (decision) routing the data object to one or the other under certain conditions?

    Is there a meaning to associating the data object with a Sequence Flow that terminates in an Event (throw or catch)?

    Proposed Resolution:

    When the flow originates from an Activity, the data object is an output of that Activity that is available at the time of the flow. When the flow terminates in an Activity, the data object is an input to that Activity that is available at the time the Activity starts. (This is the conclusion to be drawn from the current text. But these statements are independent of what is on the other end.)

    If the flow originates from a gateway or event, BPMN assigns no meaning to the association with respect to that end, but a conforming tool may.

    If the flow terminates in a gateway or event, the data object is an "input" artifact that is available when the Gateway decision is made, the Event is thrown, or the wait for the Event begins. The artifact, or the knowledge of its availability, may be used in making the Gateway decision or throwing or handling the Event.

    The preferred representation of a data object "flowing" past a gateway or event is to show two (or more) associations:
    output from the originating activity and input to the activity (or activities) that use the artifact. (And there should be an example of this.)

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Tue, 9 Oct 2007 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 01:53 GMT

BPMN does not have a symbol for a physical storage facility

  • Key: BPMN12-32
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11278
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Agile Enterprise Design ( Mr. Fred A. Cummins)
  • Summary:

    BPMN does not have a symbol for a physical storage facility. This is important to highlight for management process diagrams since such facilities that may be a source of signifant costs and delays. (This comment is intended for consideration in BPMN 2.0)

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 01:53 GMT

BPMN does not explicitly identify a model element for "approval."

  • Key: BPMN12-31
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11277
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Agile Enterprise Design ( Mr. Fred A. Cummins)
  • Summary:

    BPMN does not explicitly identify a model element for "approval." This is important to highlight for control issues and regulatory compliance concerns. An approval symbol is apparently common in management consultant diagrams. A equlateral triangle with one edge at the base has been used for this. (this issue intended for BPMN 2.0).

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 01:53 GMT

Page: Page 1 (PDF page 25)

  • Key: BPMN12-30
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11150
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Object Management Group ( Andrew Watson)
  • Summary:

    Page 1 (PDF page 25) Section 1 includes the text: "Note – This version does provide a non-normative mapping from BPMN to WSBPEL, but the BPMN specification itself is known to be incomplete with respect to capturing all the required information for WSBPEL. So the mapping is insufficient, in any case." This says one can't make a mapping from WSBPEL to BPMN. It doesn't prevent a mapping from BPMN to WSBPEL.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 01:53 GMT

Text User Task instead of Manual Task

  • Key: BPMN2-301
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15681
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: scch.at ( Christine Natschlär)
  • Summary:

    The first sentence on page 171 states:
    The User Task inherits the attributes and model associations of Activity (see Table 10.3), but does not have any
    additional attributes or model associations.

    I think that in the mentioned sentence "User Task" should be replaced by "Manual Task".
    The sentence is still in the section of the Manual Task and the User Tasks starts afterwards also providing its own statement stating that the User Task inherits the attributes and model associtations of Activity.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0 — Mon, 4 Oct 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 21:32 GMT

Page 345. “Sub-Choreographies” instead of “Choreography Activities”

  • Key: BPMN2-300
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15594
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: craftware.net ( Eduardo Jara)
  • Summary:

    It says:
    “Both Sub-Choreographies can have standard loops and multi-instances. Examples of Choreography Activities with the appropriate markers can be seen in Figure 11.12 and Figure 11.22.”

    The purpose of this paragraph is to explain that both Choreography Task and Sub-Choreography can have loop markers. Figure 11.12 shows Choreography Task Markers, and Figure 11.22 shows Sub-Choreography Markers

    Then, it should say:
    “Both Choreography Activities can have standard loops and multi-instances. Examples of Choreography Activities with the appropriate markers can be seen in Figure 11.12 and Figure 11.22.”

    “Sub-Choreographies” should be replaced by “Choreography Activities”

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0 — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0.1
  • Disposition Summary:
  • Updated: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 21:32 GMT

None Events not for catch Intermediate Event

  • Key: BPMN2-299
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15687
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: scch.at ( Christine Natschlär)
  • Summary:

    The following text is from page 280:
    There are three (3) variations of None
    Events: a Start Event, a catch Intermediate Event, and an End Event (see Figure 10.91).

    The catch None Intermediate Event MUST only be used in normal flow and, thus, MAY NOT be attached to the boundary of an Activity.

    However, according to Table 10.93 and the former text, a None-Trigger is allowed for a Start Event, End Event and for a throw Intermediate Event but not for a catch Intermediate Event.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0 — Thu, 7 Oct 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    resolved

  • Updated: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 04:11 GMT

Conditional Event instead of Error Event

  • Key: BPMN2-298
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15686
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: scch.at ( Christine Natschlär)
  • Summary:

    On page 273, after the heading Error Event, the following text is displayed: Figure 10.79 shows the variations of Conditional Events.

    However, the actual section describes Error Events and Figure 10.79 also shows Error Events.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0 — Thu, 7 Oct 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    resolved

  • Updated: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 04:11 GMT

Page 181. Wrong reference to table 10.20

  • Key: BPMN2-297
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15463
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: craftware.net ( Eduardo Jara)
  • Summary:

    It says
    “Table 10.3 presents the additional attributes of the Sub-Process element:”

    It should say
    “Table 10.20 presents the additional attributes of the Sub-Process element:”

    “Table 10.3” should be replaced by “Table 10.20”

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0 — Thu, 9 Sep 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    resolved

  • Updated: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 04:11 GMT

Conflicting content regarding choreographies.

  • Key: BPMN2-296
  • Legacy Issue Number: 17094
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    I was going through the BPMN 2.0 Specifications and found some conflicting
    content regarding choreographies. In section 7.4 Use of Text, Color, Size,
    and Lines in a Diagram, the third indented point of the bullet "The fills
    that are used for the graphical elements MAY be white or clear" states
    that "Participant Bands for Choreography Tasks and Sub-Choreographies that
    are not the initiator of the activity MUST have a light fill. This does
    not seem to be consistent with what is depicted in Figure 7.7 An example
    of a stand-alone choreography diagram. It is also not consistent with the
    discussions on Choreography in the same document in Section 11.4.1
    Choreography Task.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 1 Feb 2012 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Closed; No Change — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    withdrawn by submitter

  • Updated: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 08:48 GMT

Page 203, Table 10-26, MultiInstance Activity: What is the intended use case if the catching boudnary event is interrupt

  • Key: BPMN2-295
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14539
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Page 203, Table 10-26, multiInstanceLoopCharacteristics: I believe that the motivation behind having events thrown in coordination with the completion of instances of multiInatnce activity is to have non-interrupting boundary events to carry out some desired ackownledgements (or other defined activites), but if the catching boudnary event is interrupting, the alternate flow will be followed potentially resulting in un-expected or suspected behavior.

    What is the intended use case if the catching boudnary event is interrupting?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 8 Oct 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The design of the MI activity was done with the use case in mind that the catching boundary event is non-interrupting.
    However, we do not see a strong reason to rule out that the catching boundary event could be interrupting.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 23:15 GMT

The list of supporting objects in B.11 is incomplete

  • Key: BPMN11-33
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9717
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Thematix Partners LLC ( Mr. Edward J. Barkmeyer)
  • Summary:

    Doc: dtc/06-02-01
    Date: February 2006
    Version: Final Adopted Specification
    Chapter: B.11
    Pages: 101
    Nature: Editorial
    Severity: minor

    Description:

    The list of supporting object types in B.11 does not include the following:
    Gate, which is actually documented under Gateway
    Input set, which is documented under Process
    Output set, which is documented under Process
    Trigger, which is documented under Event.

    Each of these supporting objects, together with its proper attributes (extracted from wherever it is documented), should be included in B.11.

    Recommendation:

    Add 4 subsections to B.11:

    Before B.11.4 (Message), add:

    B.11.a Gate, with the following attributes:

    "Outgoing SequenceFlow: SequenceFlow
    Each Gate SHALL have one associated Sequence Flow. The constraints on the SequenceFlow depend on the kind of Gateway.

    "Assignments (0..n): Assignment
    One or more assignment expressions MAY be made for each Gate. The
    Assignment SHALL be performed when the Gate is selected. The details of
    Assignment is defined in the Section B.11.1, "Assignment," on page 268."

    B.11.b Input(Set), with the following attributes:

    "Inputs (1-n) : Artifact
    One or More Inputs SHALL be defined for each InputSet. An Input is an Artifact, usually a Document Object."

    Before B.11.6 (Participant), add:

    B.11.c Output(Set), with the following attributes:

    "Outputs (1-n) : Artifact
    One or more Outputs MUST be defined for each OutputSet. An Output is an
    Artifact, usually a Document Object."

    Before B.11.11 (Webservice), add:

    B.11.d Trigger, with the following attributes:

    Trigger (None | Message | Timer | Rule | Link | Multiple) None : String
    Trigger defines the type of trigger, and determines what other attributes are permitted or required. The Trigger list MAY be extended to include new types.

    [Message Trigger only]
    Message : Message
    If the Trigger is a Message, then the Message SHALL be specified. (See B.11.4).

    [Message Trigger only]
    Implementation (Web Service | Other | Unspecified) Web Service : String
    This attribute specifies the technology that will be used to receive the message. A Web service is the default technology.

    [Timer Trigger only]
    TimeDate (0-1) : Date
    If the Trigger is a Timer, then a Date MAY be specified. The TimeDate specifies the point in time at which the Timer Event will occur. If a TimeDate is not specified, then a TimeCycle SHALL be specified (see the attribute below).

    [Timer Trigger only]
    TimeCycle (0-1) : String
    If the Trigger is a Timer, then a TimeCycle MAY be specified. The TimeCycle specifies the elapsed time between TimerEvents. If a TimeCycle is not
    specified, then a TimeDate MUST be specified (see the attribute above).

    [Rule Trigger only]
    RuleName : Rule
    If the Trigger is a Rule, then the triggering Rule SHALL be specified. (See B.11.9) The Rule specifies the observable state of affairs that triggers the RuleEvent.

    [Link Trigger only]
    LinkId : String
    If the Trigger is a Link, then the LinkId SHALL be specified. The LinkId specifies the name of the Link (signal) that triggers the LinkEvent when it is presented by the Process designated by the ProcessRef attribute (see below).

    [Link Trigger only]
    ProcessRef : Process
    If the Trigger is a Link, then the ProcessRef SHALL be specified. ProcessRef specifies the Process that is the source of the Link (signal) for which the Trigger is waiting. The identified Process MAY be the same Process as that of the Link Event.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Fri, 12 May 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Gate is a common feature of Gateways

  • Key: BPMN11-32
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9716
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Thematix Partners LLC ( Mr. Edward J. Barkmeyer)
  • Summary:

    Doc: ptc/06-02-01
    Date: February 2006
    Version: Final Adopted Specification
    Chapter: 9.5
    Pages:
    Nature: Editorial
    Severity: minor

    Description:

    In 9.5.1 Common Elements of Gateways, the object type Gate is not documented. But Gate appears, with the same two attributes (Outgoing flow, Assignments) in every subtype of Gateway in 9.5, and once for each role of Gate in that kind of Gateway. Moreover, the initial text for its attributes in each occurrence is the same. Some of the specific roles of Gate have special requirements as well, and this must be puzzled out from the current tables for the Gateways.

    The common concept Gate and the attributes of Gate with their common characteristics should be specified in 9.5.1, as a supporting object. Then in each of the subsections where the use of a Gate has special rules, only the special rules need to appear, and they should attach to the Gateway attribute that is the particular use/role of the Gate that imposes the constraint.

    Recommendation:

    In 9.5.1 add a subsection for Gate, e.g.

    "Gate

    "A Gate represents the point at which a Gateway is connected to an outgoing SequenceFlow. A given Gateway can have several Gates, one for each outgoing SequenceFlow. Each kind of Gateway imposes different constraints on the SequenceFlow, and some types of Gateway distinguish Gates with different kinds of constraints on the SequenceFlow.

    "Table 9.xx Gate Attributes

    "Outgoing SequenceFlow: SequenceFlow
    Each Gate SHALL have one associated Sequence Flow. The constraints on the SequenceFlow depend on the kind of Gateway.

    "Assignments (0..n): Assignment
    One or more assignment expressions MAY be made for each Gate. The
    Assignment SHALL be performed when the Gate is selected. The details of
    Assignment is defined in the Section B.11.1, "Assignment," on page 268."

    In table 9.27 (XOR Gateway attributes), delete the entries for Outgoing SequenceFlow and Assignments. Under the Gates attribute description, add a paragraph:
    "For each Gate, the Outgoing Sequence Flow (See Table 9.xx on page xxx) SHALL have its Condition attribute set to None (there is no evaluation of a condition expression).
    The attributes of a Sequence Flow can be found in Section 10.1.2,
    "Sequence Flow," on page 100."

    In table 9.28 (IOR Gateway attributes), delete both sets of entries for Outgoing SequenceFlow and Assignments.

    Under the Gates attribute description, add a paragraph:
    "For each Gate, except the DefaultGate, if any, the Outgoing Sequence Flow (See Table 9.xx on page xxx) SHALL have its Condition attribute set to Expression. The Outgoing Sequence Flow SHALL have a valid ConditionExpression, and the ConditionExpression SHALL be unique among all the Gates within the Gateway.
    The attributes of a Sequence Flow can be found in Section 10.1.2,
    "Sequence Flow," on page 100."

    Under the DefaultGate attribute description, add a paragraph:
    "For the Default Gate, the Outgoing SequenceFlow (See Table 9.xx on page xxx) SHALL have its Condition attribute set to Default. The SequenceThe
    The attributes of a Sequence Flow can be found in Section 10.1.2,
    "Sequence Flow," on page 100."

    In table 9.29 (Complex Gateway attributes), delete the entries for Outgoing SequenceFlow and Assignments. Under the Gates attribute description, add a paragraph:
    "For each Gate, the Outgoing Sequence Flow (See Table 9.xx on page xxx) SHALL have its Condition attribute set to None.
    The attributes of a Sequence Flow can be found in Section 10.1.2,
    "Sequence Flow," on page 100."

    In table 9.30 (Parallel Gateway attributes), delete the entries for Outgoing SequenceFlow and Assignments. Under the Gates attribute description, add a paragraph:
    "For each Gate, the Outgoing Sequence Flow (See Table 9.xx on page xxx) SHALL have its Condition attribute set to None.
    The attributes of a Sequence Flow can be found in Section 10.1.2,
    "Sequence Flow," on page 100."

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Fri, 12 May 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Message/Property/Assignment relations are too complex

  • Key: BPMN11-22
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9563
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    Message/Property/Assignment relations are too complex. It's not easy
    to model values sent along the message flow. Probably Message loaded
    with Assignments would help. Also. there is no easy way to model BPEL
    construct where full message is assigned to variable. It looks like
    there is duplication between Property set and Message. It's not clear
    whether it's possible to use Property Set or Message definition as
    Property type. Probably BPMN needs better type modeling.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Message Flow ordering along Pool (abst process) is modeled only graphically

  • Key: BPMN11-21
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9561
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    Message Flow ordering along Pool (abstract process) is modeled only
    graphically. A specification of in/out indices to message flows is a
    solution. Otherwise it's impossible to tell from the model order of
    message receive/send for certain pool

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

p. 282, Table 137

  • Key: BPMN11-35
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9722
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: CA Technologies ( Donna Burbank)
  • Summary:

    The attribute definitions for Property are unclear/inconsistent. The attribute names are "Type" and "Correlation". But in the Description for Correlation, the text refers to "ConditionType" and "Condition Expression": "If the ConditionType attribute is set to Expression, then the ConditionExpression attribute must be defined." It is unclear what this is referring to.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0 — Mon, 15 May 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

The concept of "Trigger" in ambiguous in the BPMN specification

  • Key: BPMN11-34
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9719
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: CA Technologies ( Donna Burbank)
  • Summary:

    The concept of "Trigger" in ambiguous in the BPMN specification. Take, for example, a Timer Start Event. This appears to me as a start event as type timer. But the specification also seems to refer to a trigger as a separate entity--an start event with a trigger somehow 'attached'. This is confusing and should be better explained in the document.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0 — Mon, 15 May 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPEL faults

  • Key: BPMN11-29
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9571
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    BPEL faults are more complex than simple error name and handler
    may be selected basing on fault name and type of the related data. BPMN
    supports only error handler selection by name. A way of specifying the
    faults at sufficient detail to enable generation of BPEL faults is
    needed, by means of some text annotation property perhaps.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPMN spec doesn't include join condition

  • Key: BPMN11-28
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9570
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    each action may contain join condition and have associated
    'suppressJoinFailure' flag. BPMN spec doesn't include join condition at
    all and puts suppressJoinFailure to the Process level only. Borland
    created complex structures to reflect behavior of related BPEL elements
    to enable generation.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Specify persistent format

  • Key: BPMN11-31
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9573
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    A persistent format (XMI?) should be specified, to create possibility
    of vendor-independent models

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by other OMG
    specifications, such as BPDM 1.0 and the response to the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

enhance BPMN to provide 'resource modeling'.

  • Key: BPMN11-30
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9572
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    It would be nice to enhance BPMN to provide 'resource modeling'. For
    example, a way to model working time available to the process, for
    participant. Maybe a clear way to define resources used by activities,
    number of available resource items, competition for resources.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

partner links are not modeled in BPMN explicitly.

  • Key: BPMN11-27
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9569
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    partner links are not modeled in BPMN explicitly. so some of
    related features are impossible to represent (e.g. dynamic partner
    links)

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

correlation set

  • Key: BPMN11-26
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9568
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    BPEL model may use correlation set as a way to establish 'session'
    BPMN does not have similar construct. One could model a reference to
    correlation set in invoke as set of assignments. There should be a way
    to mark such set of assignments with a boolean "initiate" flag

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPEL/WSDL specific properties

  • Key: BPMN11-24
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9566
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    Borland found we had to add some BPEL/WSDL specific properties like
    'target namespace' and 'wsdl path' to Participant for BPEL generation

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Reference Task does not define any way to pass parameters and values

  • Key: BPMN11-23
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9565
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    Reference Task does not define any way to pass parameters and values

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPEL->BPMN mapping problem

  • Key: BPMN11-25
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9567
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    variables having 'message' type are imported as property sets,
    reference to message type is lost

    • it is hard to model variable as input and assign result of
      <invoke> to variable. If passing arguments can be modeled as sequence of
      assignments, receive part is impossible to model clearly--assignment is
      not symmetric, from is expected to be an expression and there is no way
      to define reference to service call result in expression as BPEL don't
      need it
  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Events in subprocesses

  • Key: BPMN11-53
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9936
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    The spec is unclear on when the events are enabled, ie, "listening" for
    the event.

    For example, suppose an independent process has a start event (either
    message, timer, or rule), and this process is used by another (as a
    subprocess, for example), as shown below.

    P1:

    A ---> P2 ----> B

    P2:

    Start
    Event ---> Other activities
    (Message,
    Timer,
    or Rule)

    What will happen if A is executing in P1, and the start event for P2
    occurs before A is finished?

    If P2 is intended to be called only by other processes (it isn't "top
    level"). Is there a way to prevent if from being triggered
    independently of its callers?

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 8 Jun 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPMN: Interrupt Intermediate Event

  • Key: BPMN11-52
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9928
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    In many business processes, activities may be interrupted for business
    reasons. A new Interrupt Event would facilitate modeling of these
    processes. This type of Event would have try-catch semantics, similar to
    the Error Intermediate Event, but without the error semantics. To support
    this, we would need both an Interrupt Intermediate Event and an Interrupt
    End Event.

    Possible notation: a square, similar to the stop button on a tape player.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Implicit State Machine for Activities

  • Key: BPMN11-58
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10150
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Dale Moberg)
  • Summary:

    What are the states that an activity can transition to? Are these the values of the Status attribute of an Activity? (None, Ready, Active, Cancelled, Aborting, Aborted, Completing, Completed) What, if anything, causes a transition of an Activity from None to Ready? Can you transition from Completed to None? to Ready? And so forth.

    In what ways can these transitions occur? I think this is mainly a matter of what effects events have, but also involves the flows (and gateways, and tokens) [See the summary of start event types and their triggers (Table 9.5) and end events and process “endings” (Table 9.6) that has some info on effects on state, though some additional values appear to be mentioned.]

    If there are other states (“armed” “ready”, “listening”, “waiting” “dormant”, “inactive” and so on) list them along with basic ones such as
    “started” (“instantiated” “activated”) and completed. Are some states synonymous? Which ones? Is singly/multiply instantiated a state (so that an instantiated count could be tracked by numbers of copies active in the system?) How would the above states, if they exist, be related to the value in LoopType, StartQuantity, etc.

    Bonus: Link the state machine transistions to the token flow behaviors and when and how Activities after a Merge GW change state. How is a Start or Intermediate Event state with a None trigger different from a transfer of flow control by means of a token? There are connections between state transitions and “flow” as stated, for example, in the ConditionType Attribute where token flow is said to occur when the (source) Activity State goes to Completed. Are there rules relating the generation or consumption of tokens to the state transitions?

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Fri, 1 Sep 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Multiple None Start Events inside of a sub-process

  • Key: BPMN11-57
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10138
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    What would be the semantics of having multiple None Start Events inside of
    a sub-process? Should this be allowed.

    If the start events are on the sub-process border, then the semantics are
    clear. A sequence flow would target the start event and thus determine
    which start event would be triggered.
    But what happens when the start event is inside the sub-process? Will
    multiple instances of the sub-process be created? This doesn't work given
    that the sub-process instance is created when a token arrives via a
    sequence flow. If one instance is created then we have a conflict with
    the current spec semantics, in which each start event results in a new
    instance. And would tokens flow out of one start event or both?

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPMN: Complex triggers

  • Key: BPMN11-51
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9925
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    It's common to have models with complex triggering conditions. For
    example, start this process upon arrival of Message A and Message B or
    arrival of Message A and Message C.

    A new trigger type, "Complex", would facilitate creation of such models.
    The trigger would be represented as an Expression in this case.

    A possible graphical notation would be to apply the same icon that is used
    in Complex Gateways.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Multiple Triggers with 'and' semantics

  • Key: BPMN11-50
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9917
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    In BPMN 1.0, you can create an Event with Multiple triggers. But these
    triggers are treated as alternatives ... i.e., they have 'or' semantics.
    It is very common to require multiple triggers with 'and' semantics. That
    is, all of the triggers must be satisfied before the process will start.

    A possible graphical notation is to to use the '+' symbol inside of the
    event circle. This would then be consistent with the notation used to
    designate 'and' semantics in gateways.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPMN: Attribute definitions

  • Key: BPMN11-49
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9908
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Some attribute descriptions and definitions require corrections:
    "Lanes" (Section B.4): Description mentions the "Id" of the lane,
    but it's the lane itself that is referenced by this attribute.
    "Inputs", "Outputs" (Section B.6.1): Description refers to
    "Document Object". Should be "Data Object".
    "OutgoingSequenceFlow" (Section B.7.2):

    • Should state that the sequence flow must be outgoing from this
      gateway. It's not actually stated, although the reader would
      probably assume that's the case.
    • Contradictory statements in the description. One sentence
      states that the Sequence Flow Condition must be Expression. And
      another sentence states that in certain cases the Sequence Flow
      Condition must be None.
      "DefaultGate" (Section B.7.2): The attributes under DefaultGate are
      not needed. The DefaultGate would reference an existing Gate, and
      thus there is no need to redefine the attributes of this Gate.
  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Inclusive Event-Based Decision

  • Key: BPMN11-56
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10096
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    We may need a way to model more general logic patterns for incoming events. For example, in response to an RFQ, a supplier may send either a decline, or a quote and (as a separate message) terms & conditions. The logic pattern for this use case is

    Decline XOR ( Quote AND Terms )

    If the Decline is accompanied by a memo giving reasons, then the logic becomes

    ( Decline AND Memo ) XOR ( Quote AND Terms )

    We want to open up three event receivers initially (four in the second case). Then, as a Quote arrives for example, we want to close the receives for Decline and Memo — since we don't expect those any longer — but keep the receive for Terms & Conditions open. When those have arrived as well, the inclusive event-based gateway is complete.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 7 Aug 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Extending activities with execution time (traversal time) attributes?

  • Key: BPMN11-55
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10084
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Is there a plan for extending activities with execution time (traversal time) attribute???
    I mean is to put time on the activities which show how long they will take to finish. Maybe two attributes for the best and worst case (minimum and maximum traversal time).
    I can imagine a system, which allows displaying accumulated time for every sub process and task, for every separate flow path with minimum and maximum traversal time.
    It is more or less easy to find out estimated time for primitive tasks but it is really hard work to calculate possible execution time for whole process for synchronization purposes.
    So when you simulate the whole process at the end you will see how long the process will take in best and worst case.
    It is an excellent feature for process estimation. I realize the problems of implementing of such functionality because of merging of sequence flows but anyway it could be great feature.
    Unfortunately process execution time (traversal time) is still not supported by BPMN specification but you don’t need to be an oracle to predict that the idea will come through in the closest future.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Sat, 5 Aug 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Where are tokens queued?

  • Key: BPMN11-63
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10341
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    In the following process, assume mulitple tokens are being fed to A
    from upstream (<X> = exclusive OR split, <+> = AND Join):

    ------

    ----> A – <X> <+> --> B

    ------

    I assume two executions of A are required for each execution of B (if
    not, correct the parts of the spec that imply this).

    Where are tokens queued up that don't have a matching one to get
    through the AND join? BPMN should indicate where the queuing happens,
    because it affects execution. If queuing is at the the exclusive-OR
    split, then conditions could change over time and the guard could
    direct the token to a different path after the token as been queued a
    while. Or token could queue at the join, and only be tested by the
    guards once.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 5 Sep 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Clarify whether pools require their activites to be centrally coordinated

  • Key: BPMN11-62
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10340
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Clarify whether pools require their activites to be centrally coordinated. In particular, above Table 85, the specification says: "Note that Message Flow cannot connect to objects that are within the same Participant Lane boundary." (I think this should say "pool", rather than "lane".) Does this mean the entities represented by lanes must not coordinate their activities directly through messages to each other (ie, the coordination must be centralized)?

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 5 Sep 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Do artifact flows affect execution

  • Key: BPMN11-61
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10339
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Do artifact flows affect execution? Table 8.2 (BPD Core Element) says: Data Objects are considered Artifacts because they do not have any direct effect on the Sequence Flow or Message Flow of the Process, but they do provide information about what activities require to be performed and/or what they produce. Not sure, but the above seems to imply that artifact flows do not affect execution (it does not affect sequencing or messaging). Compare Table 9.10 (Common Activity Attributes): [Input: for InputSets only] Inputs (1-n) : Artifact One or more Inputs MUST be defined for each InputSet. An Input is an Artifact, usually a Document Object. InputSets (0-n) : Input The InputSets attribute defines the data requirements for input to the activity. Zero or more InputSets MAY be defined. uEach InputSet is sufficient to allow the activity to be performed (if it has first been instantiated by the appropriate signal arriving from an incoming Sequence Flow). which seems to imply an execution semantics ("Each InputSet is sufficient to allow the activity to be performed").

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 5 Sep 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close, No Change: The answer to the question is that Data Objects can affect the performance of
    individual activities. However, they do not affect the operational semantics of a BPMN diagram—in terms of when and which activities will be performed. This is determined by the Sequence Flow and
    Gateways

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Defining "Main" Pool in diagram

  • Key: BPMN11-60
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10282
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Add an attribute to a Process that allows the modeler to define which Pool in a BPD is the "main" Pool. This Pool would be the focus of the diagram and the implementation of the Process in the Pool.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Fri, 1 Sep 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Is it valid to have a pool nested within a Lane,

  • Key: BPMN11-59
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10152
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: CA Technologies ( Donna Burbank)
  • Summary:

    Is it valid to have a pool nested within a Lane,

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Fri, 1 Sep 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Provide ExpressionLanguage attribute for the element Expression

  • Key: BPMN11-54
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9937
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: oose Innovative Informatik eG ( Markus Klink)
  • Summary:

    BPMN expressions are defined as:

    "An Expression MUST be entered to provide a mathematical expression to be either tested as True or False or to be evaluated to update the value of Properties (e.g., assignment)."

    whereas the diagram has an ExpressionLanguage attribute which is defined as:

    "A Language MAY be provided so that the syntax of expressions used in the Diagram can be understood. "

    Expressions are used either in the boolean sense (e.g. as Conditions for Conditional flow) or in the imperative sense where expressions are evaulated to update values (e.g. as used in the element Assignment). Hence this can be conflicting with the default settings by the diagram, and is in conflict with the notion of BPMN as a human readable language it is suggested that each expression may contain an expressionlanguage field of type String. While BPMN will still mandate that certain expressions must deliver specific results, it will not standardize the expressionlanguages capable of achieving this goal.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

UML class diagram in the appendix

  • Key: BPMN11-80
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10503
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    The UML class diagram in the appendix as revised after Ballot 4, is an object model, and it should not be an object model .

    More particularly, the new diagram in Appendix B looks like a metamodel for BPMN Element, In particular, it seems to show abstract classes (using italics for names),
    shows visibility public '+' for attributes, shows generalization relationships,
    and uses the notation for representing classes (or metaclasses), and attributes.

    This is misleading at best. It is understood within the FTF that the intent was to show the tables in a concise form,
    by using generalization to represent relationships among the tables in the appendix, but the diagram as it stands does not do that, since it includes concepts that are not appropriate to that purpose.isual representation of the tables and the rows of the tables.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0 — Tue, 5 Dec 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

examples in section 10.2.1 Normal Flow (02)

  • Key: BPMN11-79
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10476
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Computas ( Steinar Carlsen)
  • Summary:

    These issues refer to the examples in section 10.2.1 Normal Flow in the BPMN Adopted Specification as of february 2006; pages 125-128.

    The problem with the use of Link events for synchronizing behaviour is that there also is a need to explicitly state that two link events are the same object. This can be indicated through the use of (directed or undirected) associations, but that still is an indication only; not formalized. Next, use of such "equality associations" has problems with cases where the "same event" occurs both as an end event and a start event, as seen in figure 10.49. Here, the two "B Completed" link events are probably not exactly the same object (with the same id) since they are of different (sub)types.

    Such use of link events, which I do indeed consider very useful, should be improved in upcoming versions of BPMN.
    The situation in figure 10.49 is quite similar to "message exchange" - but within a pool. Just as there has been identified a need for distinguishing between sending and receving intermediate message events, there is a similar need to distinguish between "generating" and "reacting" intermediate link events. Generating intermediate link events could have the existing symbol; one can pragmatically think of them as "Go-to's". Reacting intermediate link events could have a new symbol with the internal fat arrow pointing right to left; these can be thought of as "Comes-from's". In the example then the topmost "B Completed" event could be changed into an generating intermediate link event. The bottom fragment could be changed into a normal start event, followed by a reacting intermediate "B Completed" link event followed by task D.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0 — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section: 9.3.4 Intermediate [Events]

  • Key: BPMN11-87
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10932
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Cleverlance ( Peter Sur.ák)
  • Summary:

    All the next five numbered points are BPMN Specification descriptions for Cancel Intermediate Event possible uses. TO SUMMARIZE EXECUTIVELY , text in the table 46 states that Cancel Intermediate MUST NOT be used when the Event is attached to the boundary of a Transaction WHILE text on pages 45, 47 and 60 and figure on page 60 indicate that Cancel Intermediate Event can be ONLY USED attached to the boundary of Sub-Process. I BELIEVE this is CRITICAL issue, because it establishes the completely opposite views and can possibly lead for example to rejection of valid BPMN diagram. 1) Text in chapter 9.3.4 Intermediate [Events] in table 9.9 on page 46 in the first row "Trigger" [attribute] in column Description states that "The Cancel Trigger MUST NOT be used when the Event is attached to the boundary of a Transaction or if the Event is not contained within a Process that is a Transaction." THE CORRECT SENTENCE should be "The Cancel Trigger MAY only be used when Event is attached to the boundary of a Sub-Process that is a Transaction." Read on... 2) At the same time, in chapter 9.4.3 Intermediate [Events] in Table 9.8 on page 45 is stated for Cancel Intermediate Event that "This type of Intermediate Event is used within a Transaction Sub-Process. This type of Event MUST be attached to the boundary of a Sub-Process. It SHALL be triggered if a Cancel End Event is reached within the Transaction Sub-Process. It also SHALL be triggered if a Transaction Protocol “Cancel” message has been received while the Transaction is being performed." 3) Text in the same chapter right below the table 9.9 in section "Activity Boundary Connections" on page 47 says, that "An Intermediate Event with a Cancel Trigger MAY be attached to a Sub-Process boundary only if the Transaction attribute of the Sub-Process is set to TRUE." 4) Except that, also in chapter 9.4.2 Sub-process in section "Sub-Process Behavior as a Transaction" on page 60 the indicates that "A Cancel Intermediate Event, attached to the boundary of the activity, will direct the flow after the Transaction has been rolled back and all compensation has been completed. The Cancel Intermediate Event can only be used when attached to the boundary of a Transaction activity. It cannot be used in any Normal Flow and cannot be attached to a non-Transaction activity." 5) Also the figure 9.11 on page 60 shows Cancel Intermediate Event attached to the boundary of Transaction Sub-Process.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPMN Task Attribute "TaskType" Value-related Message Flow Restrictions

  • Key: BPMN11-86
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10657
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Escape Velocity ( Bob Daniel)
  • Summary:

    . If a task has the TaskType value set to “None”, the task is not allowed to have incoming or outgoing message flows. This restriction should be removed. “None” would logically be interpreted as “not defined”, so the message flow restriction would be overly constraining—one might be early in an analysis and the type of task not yet defined, though a message flow in/out specified. (Note that the ProcessType attribute on Process also has the legal value “None”, and in that case the definition parenthetically states that “None” means “not defined”. Further, no restriction is placed on message flow.)

    2. The message flow connect rules in Table 8.5 do not reflect the TaskType value message flow restrictions otherwise defined in Table B.64. An annotation (footnote) should be made to the table to note the restrictions.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0 — Thu, 8 Feb 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Add Project Management dependencies for activities (FF, FS, SF, SS)

  • Key: BPMN11-85
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10527
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Project management models define the start/finish relationships between activities. This is handled in four ways: Finish-Finish; Finish-Start; Start-Finish; and Start-Start. Current BPMN Flow handles two of the four. A sequential flow of activities is a Finish-Start; a parallel set of activities is a Start-Start. But the other two combinations are not definable. The solution may not require graphical canges to BPMN, but there should be some behavioral support for these situations.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0 — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Use of link events to synchronize behaviour

  • Key: BPMN11-81
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10516
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Computas ( Steinar Carlsen)
  • Summary:

    These issues refer to the examples in section 10.2.1 Normal Flow in the BPMN Adopted Specification as of february 2006; pages 125-128.

    A problem with the use of Link events for synchronizing behaviour is that there also is a need to explicitly state that two link events are the same object. This can be indicated through the use of (directed or undirected) associations, but that still is an indication only; not formalized. Next, use of such "equality associations" has problems with cases where the "same event" occurs both as an end event and a start event, as seen in figure 10.49. Here, the two "B Completed" link events are probably not exactly the same object (with the same id) since they are of different (sub)types.
    Such use of link events, which I do indeed consider very useful, should be improved in upcoming versions of BPMN.

    Two possible solutions for this could be:

    1) Introduce a way of specifying that two flow objects within/across diagrams are "equal"; possibly also allowing equality across start and end events. Could be a particular kind of associons with strong semantics.

    2) The situation in figure 10.49 is quite similar to "message exchange" - but within a pool. Just as there has been identified a need for distinguishing between sending and receving intermediate message events, there is a similar need to distinguish between "generating" and "reacting" intermediate link events. Generating intermediate link events could have the existing symbol; one can pragmatically think of them as "Go-to's". Reacting intermediate link events could have a new symbol with the internal fat arrow pointing right to left; these can be thought of as "Comes-from's". In the example then the topmost "B Completed" event could be changed into an generating intermediate link event. The bottom fragment could be changed into a normal start event, followed by a reacting intermediate "B Completed" link event followed by task D. There also must be some way of "pairing" the related generating and reacting events; this could be done by adding an attribute to the receiving event which holds the id of the matching generating event.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0 — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Duplicate or Merged — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

question raised by Issue 9321 nor addresses by issue 9319

  • Key: BPMN11-83
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10519
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Issue 9321 was resolved as being addressed by Issue 9319. However, the resolution of Issue 9319 did not adequate address the question raised by Issue 9321. Thus, this question still needs to be addressed. The Issue is:
    The start of section 8 has the following which suggests 2 levels of compliance; however this opportunity has been missed in the conformance section: "First, there is the list of core elements that will support the requirement of a simple notation. These are the elements that define the basic look-and-feel of BPMN. Most business processes will be modeled adequately with these elements. Second, there is the entire list of elements, including the core elements, which will help support requirement of a powerful notation to handle more advanced modeling situations."

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0 — Fri, 8 Dec 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Move Sequence Flow Conditions to Gates

  • Key: BPMN11-82
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10518
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Right now flow conditionality is maintained in the Sequence Flow. This should be moved to the Gates and then the Sequence Flow become purely a mechanism to advance the flow (Token).

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0 — Thu, 7 Dec 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

examples in section 10.2.1 Normal Flow (01)

  • Key: BPMN11-78
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10475
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Computas ( Steinar Carlsen)
  • Summary:

    The problem with the use of Link events for synchronizing behaviour is that there also is a need to explicitly state that two link events are the same object. This can be indicated through the use of (directed or undirected) associations, but that still is an indication only; not formalized. Next, use of such "equality associations" has problems with cases where the "same event" occurs both as an end event and a start event, as seen in figure 10.49. Here, the two "B Completed" link events are probably not exactly the same object (with the same id) since they are of different (sub)types.

    Such use of link events, which I do indeed consider very useful, should be improved in upcoming versions of BPMN.
    Two possible solutions for this could be:
    1) Introduce a way of specifying that two flow objects within/across diagrams are "equal"; possibly also allowing equality across start and end events. Could be a particular kind of associons with strong semantics.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0 — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

confusion regarding diagram 10.25

  • Key: BPMN11-89
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11241
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Value Momentum Software Services Pvt Ld ( Chandrakant Manglani)
  • Summary:

    There is a confusion regarding diagram 10.25. The word Condition means that the condition has to be met before the Activity/Process is initiated. However, the word ‘Default Condition’ conveys a wrong meaning. It is the word ‘Condition’ in the ‘Default Condition’ that is causing the confusion. Instead of saying ‘Default Condition’ can rather call it ‘Default’ or ‘Mandatory’. OR, if it mandatory then it should not branch out of a decision box and rather branch out of the Original Process.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Wed, 1 Aug 2007 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    The following minor text modifications will be made to the BPMN 1.1 Specification

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section: 10:2.1 Normal Flow

  • Key: BPMN11-88
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10933
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Cleverlance ( Peter Sur.ák)
  • Summary:

    Section - Forking Flow, page 111 - there is a typo: "Even when not required as a “best practice,” there are situations were the Parallel Gateway provides a useful indicator of the behavior of the Process." ... The sentence should state: "... are situations WHERE [capitalization added] the ..."

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    The following minor text modification will be made to the BPMN 1.1 Specification

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Should Exception Events be allowed to have no Outgoing Sequence Flow?

  • Key: BPMN11-84
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10520
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Exception Events (i.e., attached to an activity) are required to have an outgoing Sequence Flow. However, if the model being created is simple and does not use Start and End Events (see figure below), and the exception is extended to end the process, should we allow the modeler to forgo the use of Start and End Events (which would be currently required)?

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0 — Fri, 8 Dec 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

fundamental semantic model of token flows

  • Key: BPMN11-15
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9376
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: me.com ( Frank McCabe)
  • Summary:

    Currently there is no description of the fundamental semantic model of token flows in the spec. Clearly it is based on a variety of petri net; however a description of the particular semantics assumed in BPMN could be very useful in reading the spec. Such a description should be formal in the sense that it should be mathematically clear what the procedural semantics of BPMN is

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

differentiate a business message from a business signal

  • Key: BPMN11-14
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9364
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Comment to BPMN FTF:

    • Currently there is no standard way to differentiate a business
      message from a business signal, which have fundamental different
      characteristics.

    ========
    During the ebBP-BPMN discussions last week, I was asked to summarize what business signals are and how they function. There has been some initial discussion on the bpmn@omg.org list re: signals in general. I'd like to make a necessary distinction about the similarities and differences.

    • What is a business signal? [1]
      o "Business signals have a specific business purpose and are
      separate from lower protocol and transport signals. One or
      more Business Signals can be exchanged as part of a Business
      Transaction to ensure state alignment between both parties.
      Evaluation of business signals enable the state of a
      Business Collaboration to be explicitly calculated at run
      time. The ebBP technical specification provides both the
      structure and choreography of Business Signals, including
      allowing for user defined signals....

    A Business Signal is computable. This provides the
    collaborating parties with a mutual understanding of the
    business activity. This function allows the parties to know
    if their expectations in a Business Transaction are
    realized. This is state alignment, and is important in order
    for the ebBP specification to have commercial viability. The
    ebBP specification provides the ability to conduct intended
    transactions if that is the intent of the collaborating
    parties."

    • Where does the business signal fit in eBusiness and business
      messaging? [2]
      o State alignment: (almost quoting from our specification for
      specifics) The process of exchanging signals and state
      changes of a Business Transaction enables state alignment
      between the parties involved. If the standard signals are
      used, the structures of ebXML Business Signals are
      ‘universal’ and do not vary from transaction to transaction.
      Business signal schema can be found at:
      http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=16460&wg_abbrev=ebxml-bp
      (detailed schema documentation also exists on this public
      page). The ebBP technical specification provides both the
      structure and choreography of Business Signals. The ebXML
      Message Service Specification (and other evolving
      technologies) provides a reliable messaging infrastructure.
      This is the basis upon which the ebBP technical
      specification builds its protocol for business state
      alignment using Business Signals. The Business Signal
      payload structures are optional and normative and are
      intended to provide business semantics to the Business Signals.
      o Part of process definition: Defined in the BT pattern and
      bounded by partner expectations. Map back to business
      transaction activity. Map back to service and action context
      for agreement (such as CPP/A).
      o Transition and determination of several types of successes
      and failures: Condition guards exist on transition in
      process steps and activities. Business signals are integral
      here. In ebBP and in business collaboration, there is
      protocol and business success whereby one supports the
      other. Reference:
      http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=16457&wg_abbrev=ebxml-bp
      (See Section 3.6.3)
    • What happens if you don't model these signals?
      o In configuration: Business and messaging signals are
      explicitly modeled in configuration.
      o In understanding the partner agreement: The partners may
      mutually expect these be used and therefore set criteria
      associated with the progress and outcomes of the business
      process (and its activities).
      o In managing state transitions: See previous comment.
      o In seeking to generate computable artifacts: Without the
      definition of such signals, the artifacts either have to be
      defined out of band or in a potentially proprietary way. We
      allow user-defined signals, although they are still related,
      included and part of the business process.
    • Links to the business process [3]
      o Standard signals: Defined structure and semantics related to
      the pattern, activity and transitions
      o User defined signals: Allowed pointers to user-defined structure
      o BT patterns
      + Template: See patterns matrices in the specification
      (sections 3.4.9 and 3.4.9.1) that specify how these
      signals infer content validation, succesful syntactic
      validation and also allow the business process to
      proceed (or not).
      + Profile: Partners identify their expectations using
      the patterns and the selectable criteria to support
      not only the business messages received but the
      business signals that support them.
      o Relevance to model
      + Business Transactions and the Business Service View
      [4. See Chapter 9].
      + Business significance
    1. Involves timing parameters, implication to
      business partner expectations, etc. Several
      important criteria are defined around the use of
      the business signals. [4. See Chapter 8. State
      notations and their relevance to partner
      expectations are found in Chapter 9.]

    You can see how signals are used in the process definitions found on our public web site at: (ePV, Netherlands example) http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=16436&wg_abbrev=ebxml-bp

    Facts

    • Properties such as line width or color could be used but can't be
      seen if printed on black and white.
    • Properties such as message and (add) signal could be used. The
      latter would have to be added. There would also possibly need to
      be a way to differentiate whether or not business signals were
      used as the implementation and runtime results may differ given
      that assumption (different semantics).
    • In order to maintain the focus of generation of software
      artifacts, business signals should be considered for modeling in a
      standard way (preferred to a tool specific option).

    Additional note: We have seen tools that actually use the properties of messages to delineate a signal (such as a stereotype).

    • Business signals differ from underlying messaging infrastructure
      acknowledgements. Several communities including UK Bristol
      government and ePV have indicated the value of the use of business
      signals. Supports monitoring framework as well.

    Business example
    Two partners agree to engage in a Commercial Transaction pattern and use the BT from the pattern. A BTA is developed in a Business Collaboration to support these expectations. The partners will use reliable messaging and they use the business signals. An intelligibility (syntactic) check is made on the business message before the Receipt Acknowledgement business signal is sent, and successful business processing is required on the business document before an Acceptance Acknowledgement business signal is generated. Both carry timing expectations with them (in support of the BTA). For example, an Order Management system would validate a business document meets the partner expectations before initiating a sales order and sending a Response from a Purchase Order Request. Prior to the Response being sent these signals are used. They also allow the partners to optimize where required. The Buyer (Requesting Role) can understand that the Request was received and then whether or not it was successfully business processed (i.e. alleviating the potential need to query another Seller). Let's assume the Purchase Order doesn't muster in validation processing, then a Negative Acceptance Acknowledgement is sent. The Buyer (Requesting Role) may have an early indication and then can send a Cancel Transaction. Both parties are able to react more quickly to current conditions. In addition the business signals give clear indication of state alignment (the parties have a shared understanding of their condition and state of the business expectations).

    Example business signals found at: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16652/ebxmlbp-v2.0.2-cd-ExampleSignals.txt

    [1] From our FAQ found at: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ebxml-bp/download.php/16540/ebBPv2.FAQ.html
    [2] Not transport level or HTTP acknowledgements.
    [3] Business signals defined in Section 3.4.9.3 at: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/ebxml-bp/ (in technical specification)
    [4] This reference was provided on the public bpmn@omg list late last week - N090 UNCEFACT Modeling Methodolgy R10 [1]. The business signals occur in the Business Service View (which is different than a transport level component), see: http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/untmg/ (UMM_N090R10_2001-11_01.zip) - See chapters 8-9.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

shared collaboration

  • Key: BPMN11-13
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9363
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    This was submitted to BPMN members in addition to the OASIS ebBP list 13-14 February 2006. This is sent in an abbreviated fashion to FTF for comment inclusion.

    Diagram examples: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/16684/ebxmlbp-v2.0.2-Document-pr-BPMN-r02-en.zip

    As a subsequent followup between BPMN and ebBP (discussions 7 and 9 February 2006), our team has begun to delve deeper into using (future) joint activity, associate the operation activities to business transaction activities, show the use of business signals and business signal exceptions (such as Negative Receipt Acknowledgement) and understand what questions remain.

    Initial thoughts of potential needs (current or future) for BPMN that may be relevant for shared collaboration [1]:

    1. Visibility of the BT pattern and its constraints and guidelines
    2. Business QoS aspects (guidance that may translate to technical
    mechanisms in the messaging infrastructure)
    3. More detailed modeling of the business document (this may be part
    of properties). This may be too granular for BPMN however.
    4. Need for end timers

    • Timers are not just for exceptions but may be for receipt of
      a business signal (Receipt or Acceptance Ack), and for the
      overall collaboration, activity, etc.
      5. Need to be able to model simply multiple internal processes to
      support different operations, or the same operation using
      different mechanisms.
      6. How to effectively show how a business partner may assume many
      roles in a pool.
    • For example, a Supplier (exposed in Business Collaboration)
      may assume the roles of Buyer, Distributor or Seller. These
      roles may be specific to the activities within a joint
      activity or be associated with the activities defined
      elsewhere but visible in a Complex Business Transaction
      Activity. Visibility and participation in this activity are different but may be associated.
      7. Last year we spoke to some of your team members about the use of inclusive OR gateway, and intermediate or end
      messages for representing that a response could be several different types of responses (cancel, change, accept for
      example). The current BPMN semantics preclude use of message flows into / out of a gateway. In addition, we couldn't
      determine how to indicate that multiple types of business messages (specifically) may occur. We originally used
      exclusive rather than an inclusive OR gateway notation object (per BPMN suggestion in September). With inclusive
      OR, parallelism could result. For example, in a decision, it is modeled that one path is taken. In order to represent the sequence flow into a gateway, and several possible paths out (termed end messages in BPMN), I opted
      to use the inclusive OR gateway as suggested. In ebBP, forks can be non-deterministic intentionally. Forks can
      resemble a non-deterministic OR or parallel ANDs or exclusive OR (like a Decision). This question arose outside of
      the option to use a future joint activity.

    What gateway control type is appropriate when you actually could
    have n potential paths on a fork or join,
    and either only one is actually performed or many could be
    performed, and business messages are sent? This is actually a conceptual difference in current BPMN v1.0 and
    collaboration whereby not all paths may be rendered executable or be used in execution (monitorable in ebBP context).

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Need consistent terminology for Categories, Core Elements

  • Key: BPMN11-12
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9357
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    Issue summary: Need consistent terminology for Categories, Core Elements
    aka Graphical Objects

    Details:
    Note: This issue is related to the one above ???3 under the summary:
    Which is it, Core Elements, or Flow Objects?.

    The text presentation on page 15 of 06-01-01 (section 8.1) introduces
    four "basic categories" of Core Modeling Elements.
    compare that with Section 9.1, the text preceding Table 9.1, which reads
    in part
    >>>> "BPMN graphical objects (Flow Objects, Swimlanes, Artifacts and
    Connecting Objects)"
    These same four were earlier said to be the basic Categories aka the
    Core Modeling Elements. Now they are said to be the four "graphical
    objects".
    It seems likely that authors of different parts of the text were agreed
    that this list of four was speciallly important, but that they did not
    use the same terminology for them. They should consistently be termed
    "categories", "core elements" or "the BPMN Graphical Objects", but not a
    mix of all 3 terminologies.

    Since these four categories turn up in so many contexts, they invite
    close study, and their seemng importance – at least in the view of the
    authors of the spec – suggests that the metamodel of the BPMN domain
    should recognize them as important metaclasses. If this implication is
    not intended, then the text should get rid of these "categories".

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Fri, 3 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Some references are not explicit

  • Key: BPMN11-20
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9560
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    Some references are not explicit. Borland, for example, added
    reference between matching link events into our metamodel. Apparently,
    there may be a reference between error events (one causing error and
    another one providing connection to error handler) and possibly for
    compensation event

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Containment structure is unclear for non-graphical elements

  • Key: BPMN11-19
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9559
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:
    • Containment structure is unclear for non-graphical elements like
      WebService, Message, Rule etc. Borland made deliberate decisions to put
      some of them into Diagram, some to Participant.
  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Which is it, Core Elements, or Flow Objects?.

  • Key: BPMN11-11
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9355
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    Note: This issue is vaguely related to 9321
    See section 8.1 "BPD Core Element Set" starting on page 15 of 06-01-01
    The text presentation is organized according to four "basic categories" and gives the impresion that some semantic or syntactic commonality underlies each of the four categories. The category Flow Objects are listed on page 15 as bullet items.
    .
    but the table 8.1 repeats the same list, but now calling them "Core Modelng Elements", and the category "Flow Objects" has been forgotten. This is confusing.
    It is additionally confusing to have separate lists of "Core Modeling Elements", "Core

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 2 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPEL mapping definition is imprecise

  • Key: BPMN11-18
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9558
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    BPEL mapping section suggests mapping of flow graph to structural BPEL
    construct which calls for the complex flow analysis (e.g. to define
    bounds of the switch construct). With this complexity, BPEL mapping
    definition is imprecise. Some constructs, like exception handling, don't
    map to BPEL constructs suggested by the spec due to the difference in
    behavior. I would suggest to redefine mapping using approach described
    in article "An Example of Using BPMN to Model a BPEL Process"
    http://www.bpmn.org/Documents/Mapping%20BPMN%20to%20BPEL%20Example.pdf

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

how to model a process where more than one participant (pool) plays a part

  • Key: BPMN11-17
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9465
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Borders Group ( Doug Howell)
  • Summary:

    Reading over the BPMN spec, my main question is how to model a process where more than one participant (pool) plays a part in it. We have many Visio diagrams where a process is drawn across several swimlanes to denote that several people/groups take part in one process. This seems to be very intuitive for people. Is there any way to model a process across pools, or does BPMN require the modeling of multiple processes (with similar names)? names?

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Is BPMN just a notation?

  • Key: BPMN11-16
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9461
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    We should clarify the nature of BPMN. If BPMN is just a notation, then Section 2 (BPMN Overview) should be specifically state this and also contrast a notation from other types of process specifications. If BPMN is not just a notation, then this should likewise be stated and its scope and purpose should be made clear.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Clarify the scope and usage of Compensation Events

  • Key: BPMN11-74
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10429
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The usage and scope for non-transactional compensation events, both throwing and catching, is not clear in the spec.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0 — Thu, 2 Nov 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Change the activity Marker for Multiple Instance activities

  • Key: BPMN11-73
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10428
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The maker for Multiple Instances (two vertical parallel lines) is a bit confusing. It looks like a "pause" symbol on a tape player. This should be changed. The new marker should indicate multiple instances in both the parallel and serial forms of the activity.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0 — Thu, 2 Nov 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Culturally significant icons

  • Key: BPMN11-72
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10409
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    BPMN uses a six-pointed star for events with multiple triggers and for
    event-based gateways. This symbol has cultural and religious significance,
    and apparently its use will block adoption in certain regions and
    countries.

    Recommend replacing it with a 5-pointed star.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above pages 53 through 55 for figures (dtc/2007-06-01)

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

no way to graphically differentiate an Embedded Subprocess

  • Key: BPMN11-71
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10384
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: CA Technologies ( Donna Burbank)
  • Summary:

    There is currently no way to graphically differentiate an Embedded Subprocess vs. an Independent Subprocesses. Suggested resolution is to use the "go to" arrow instead of a "+" (plus sign) for the Independent Subproces, similar to the off-page connector. This would indicate that the Independent Subprocess "goes to" another diagram.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Fri, 6 Oct 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPMN spec not clear on separation of data/display regarding pools and lanes

  • Key: BPMN11-65
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10350
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: CA Technologies ( Donna Burbank)
  • Summary:

    The BPMN specification is not clear on the separation of data and display regarding pools and lanes. In some cases, pools and lanes seem to only be visual containers that are portrayed on diagrams. In other cases (e.g. in property definitions), pools and lanes seem to a part of the actual BPMN data/metadata.

    Consider the following use case:

    I create a new business process diagram
    Within this diagram, I create a pool with two lanes
    Within the lanes, I create a sequence of flow objects which collectively create a BP Process (that could be executed).

    In the case above, the diagram will reference the pool. The pool will both define the process and reference the lanes within the pool.

    The following questions emerge:

    1. Can the BP process itself be referenced (i.e. displayed) in more than one business process diagram, either as a new unique pool or an independent sub-process inside another process? Or does a BP process have only one diagram (or set of diagrams if using off-page connectors) associated with it.

    2. Consider the case of storing BPMN metadata without diagram representation. In data, is a pool and/or lane considered to be the owner to the BP process inside the pool / lane, or is just a visual attribute of the process? It seems if you have a BP Process (that contains flow objects), you would be able to portray this same process in two BPMD diagrams 1) a pool/lane showing the flow objects in the process 2) an independent sub-process showing flow objects in the process.

    3. Is there ever a case where BP process is considered to be the owner of the pool? That is, a process contains more than one pool. From the spec, it appears that a pool can define only one process, and a process cannot own one or more pools.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page: 23

  • Key: BPMN11-64
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10348
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Real IRM Solutions ( Sonja Stafford-Northcote)
  • Summary:

    On page 23 of the BPMN specification, it is stated that Tasks of type Receive can be used after the XOR Event Based Decision. So, such a Receive Task will have an incoming Sequence Flow from an XOR Event Based Decision. But, on page 64 it is stated that no other incoming Sequence Flow (other than from a Start Event)are allowed for the Receive Task." I find these 2 statements contradicting each other. Can you please advise.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

References to Annex D and there is no Annex D in this specification

  • Key: BPMN11-77
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10467
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Specification: BPMN Final Adopted Specification: dtc/06-02-01
    Contact: Stephen White, IBM
    Problem: References to Annex D and there is no Annex D in this specification

    Exact places to remove Annex D reference:
    Section 9.3.2 Start, page 37 (first paragraph on the page)
    Page 61 (first Note on the page)
    Table 11-5 "End Event Mapping to BPEL4WS" page 141, Cancel (End Event column)
    Table 11-11 "Cancel Intermediate Mapping to BPEL4WS" page 145, Trigger = Cancel (Intermediate Event column)
    Table 11-26 "Sub-Process Mappings to BPEL4WS" page 167, IsATransaction (Sub-Process column)
    Table 11-43 "Exception Flow Mappings to BPEL4WS" page 180, Quantity 1: Integer (Sequence Flow column)

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0 — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

The direction arrow for association seems backwards

  • Key: BPMN11-76
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10449
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: CA Technologies ( Donna Burbank)
  • Summary:

    The direction arrow for association seems backwards. For a “To” association, I would expect the arrowhead to be at the target object. This is how most modeling tools work.

    A à B would indicate the “flow” goes from A TO B, and would be considered a “To” association. Currently, the BPMN would show this as A ß B (arrowhead at the source), which is not intuitive

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0 — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section: 10.1.3

  • Key: BPMN11-70
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10375
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Vanderlande Industries ( Shobha Radhakrishnan)
  • Summary:

    After reading the following on BPMN - BPMN OMG Final Adopted Specification of March 6 2006, - Introduction to BPMN by Stephen A.WHite, IBM Corporation. In the latter paper are the following statements: "Pools are used to represent Participants in the process" "Message flow is defined as the mechansism to show the communication between two participants" "Lanes are often used to separate the activities associated with a company function or role" With the above three statements, I am having difficulty understanding the rationale for the below statement about BPMN "Sequence Flow may cross the boundaries of Lanes within a Pool, but Message Flow may not be used between FLow objects in Lanes of the same Pool". To model the process of how a Customer project is executed by a company, I want to model Organisation Units (e.g. Sales, Development) as Pools and roles inside those Units as Lanes (e.g. Project Manager, Team Leader, Architect, Developer etc), Message Flows can be used to represent the interactions between Sales and Development Units. But I am not allowed to use Message Flows to represent the interactions between an Architect and the Developer. WHy? Am I using the pools and lanes in a manner that is against the philosophy of BPMN? I tried to get an answer from BPMN OMG Final Adopted Specification of March 6 2006, but the rationale was not very clear. Please could I have a clarification for the rationale between not allowing message flows between lanes in the same pool.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Specify return type of ComplexMI_FlowCondition

  • Key: BPMN11-75
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10448
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Mr. Petko Chobantonov)
  • Summary:

    Summary: Specify the return type of ComplexMI_FlowCondition defined in Multi-Instance Loop attributes table

    The specification does not specify the expected return type of ComplexMI_FlowCondition expression attribute.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0 — Thu, 9 Nov 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Add a UML Profile to the BPMN specification

  • Key: BPMN11-69
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10373
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Add a UML Profile to the BPMN specification

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

The Reference Task and Reference Subprocess should be removed

  • Key: BPMN11-68
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10372
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: CA Technologies ( Donna Burbank)
  • Summary:

    “The Reference Task and Reference Subprocess should be removed. With the resolution of issue 9559, containment issues no longer restrict the vendor from making any BPMN object reusable/referenced.”

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section: 8.1, Table 8.1

  • Key: BPMN11-67
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10355
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: InfoPro ( Jim Godfrey)
  • Summary:

    The last sentance in the "Activity" "Description" paragraph in Table 8.1 should read "Processes are either unbounded or ARE [capitalization added] contained ... ." The sentance currently, and incorrectly, reads "Processes are either unbounded or A contained ... ."

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section: 7.1.1/Note

  • Key: BPMN11-66
  • Legacy Issue Number: 10352
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: InfoPro ( Jim Godfrey)
  • Summary:

    The second sentance under "Note" in section 7.1.1 should start with the word "See." The word is missing.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Definition of "Rule"

  • Key: BPMN11-38
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9892
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    The definition of "Rule", as given in section B.11.9, is ambiguous. More
    clarification is needed in the spec.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Link does not have clear semantics

  • Key: BPMN11-37
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9883
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Agile Enterprise Design ( Mr. Fred A. Cummins)
  • Summary:

    Issue: Link does not have clear semantics. Not clear if it is graphical only (for connecting off page or cross page lines, or has execution semantics. Also, it is not clear what types of elements can be linked. Need to clarify semantics for BPDM. Proposed solution (FTF discussion) Link is a graphical convenience for connecting two points on a graphical representation of a process. The points must be within a single pool and the name/identifier must be unique within the pool. It is only valid where a line without the link(s) would be valid.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Wed, 5 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPMN TaskType Attribute

  • Key: BPMN11-36
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9801
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Sylvain Astier)
  • Summary:

    Page 64 (Adobe 88) of the BPMN Spec (06-02-01) the first row of table 9.17 reads:

    "TaskType (Service | Receive | Send | User | Script | Manual | Reference | None) None : String"

    This would mean the default type for the TaskType attribute would be "None". However, the description says « TaskType is an attribute that has a default of Service », which makes more sense to me.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 1 Jun 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

MessageFlows to a subprocess boundary

  • Key: BPMN11-46
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9903
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Page 103 states that
    If the Message Flow is connected to the boundary of the Expanded
    Sub-Process, then this is equivalent to connecting to the Start Event
    for incoming Message Flow or the End Event for outgoing Message Flow
    (see Figure 10.7).

    Does this make sense, considering that the Sub-Process may contain
    Send/Receive Tasks and Message Intermediate Events? If we remove this
    sentence, then we should also remove Figure 10.7.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

DataObject attributes

  • Key: BPMN11-45
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9902
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    The DataObject contains two attributes "RequiredToStart" and
    "ProducedAtCompletion". These probably should be on the Activity rather
    than the DataObject, since a single DataObject can be associated with
    multiple Activities. Also, we may want to relate them in some way to the
    Activity Input/Output Sets.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Intermediate Events with outgoing Message Flow

  • Key: BPMN11-42
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9899
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Page 48 states that an Intermediate Event cannot have outgoing Message
    Flow. This restriction should be removed.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Tasks with multiple outgoing message flows

  • Key: BPMN11-41
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9898
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Page 92 states that a Task may have zero or more outgoing Message Flows.
    But the tasks that support outgoing message flows (e.g. SendTask,
    ServiceTask, etc) can have at most one outgoing Message. This implies that
    all Message Flows leaving a single Task must all be associated with the
    same Message. This should be clarified in the spec.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

"Quantity" attribute

  • Key: BPMN11-44
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9901
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Currently, there is a Quantity attribute on Sequence Flows. Does it belong
    there or should it instead be on the Activity?

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

"StartQuantity" attribute

  • Key: BPMN11-43
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9900
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    The "StartQuantity" attribute, as it's currently defined on page 50, needs
    revisiting. What happens if an Activity has multiple incoming sequence
    flows? Should the StartQuantity instead consist of a list of numbers, each
    of which is correlated in some way with a particular sequence flow?

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Independent Subprocess

  • Key: BPMN11-40
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9895
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    The term "Independent Subprocess" doesn't fully convey the intent of this
    construct. Suggest it be renamed to "Reusable Subprocess".

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

IORules attribute

  • Key: BPMN11-39
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9894
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    The IORules attribute on Activity is of type Expression. Shouldn't it be a
    Rule?

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Optional Start/End Events

  • Key: BPMN11-47
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9904
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    A Start or End Event should only be optional if it has no Trigger or
    Result

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

"Exception" trigger

  • Key: BPMN11-48
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9906
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Page 47 refers to an "Exception" trigger. Should be renamed to "Error".

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    see above

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPMN CMOF File problems

  • Key: BPMN2-246
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15031
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Thematix Partners LLC ( Mr. Edward J. Barkmeyer)
  • Summary:

    The Beta-1 CMOF files on the server (spec/BPMN/2.0/20090501/cmof.xmi <http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/20090501/cmof.xmi>, spec/BPMN/2.0/20090501/Infrastructure.xmi <http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/20090501/Infrastructure.xmi>, spec/BPMN/2.0/20090501/Semantic.xmi <http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/20090501/Semantic.xmi>) are invalid in several ways:

    (1) The schemaLocation for the UML Infrastructure schema is an EMF URI that returns Error 404. The only elements actually used in the BPMN model are the primitive types. It is preferable to provide only the standard UML URI and assume that any CMOF implementation will have a known source for it.

    (2) The modularization of the Infrastructure Package makes no sense.
    The Infrastructure Package must import Core::Foundation in order to define the associations from Definitions to RootElements, Relationships, and Extensions. Otherwise those data types are undefined. And in the current model, only the association ends owned by Definitions are in the Infrastructure Package; the associations themselves and the non-navigable ends are owned by the Foundation Package.
    [It is not clear what religious motive caused Infrastructure to be removed from the Core Package in the first place. It is documented as part of the Core in the specification. Definitions is a subclass of BaseElement and inheriting the identifier documentation is important.
    If you really want to separate Definitions (and Imports) for some reason, then you need to split Definitions into an Infrastructure version containing only the properties that are wholly contained in the Infrastructure package and a Core version that has the properties that bind Definitions to Foundation elements, including the generalization, and then packageMerge Infrastructure into Core. But then the "reusable" thing in the Infrastructure package has neither a formal id, nor any associated text.]

    (3) Foundation should import the "cmof" Package (which should really be the OMG standard reference) to define Element, for external Relationships and Extensions.

    (4) Infrastructure should import the "interchange" Package that "defines" Diagram, and the "interchange" module should define the class Diagram, not the class NotInSpec. I realize that this is a fudge, but the existing nonsense causes Definitions:diagrams to be a model inconsistency when loading the XMI file into a CMOF repository.

    Yes, it is difficult to get a correct CMOF file out of the EMF libraries, or any UML tool. But it is the only form on the OMG server that can be loaded into a model library for integration with other cmof:Element objects (e.g., from UML or UPDM or SysML or BMM models).
    The XML schemas are worthless for this purpose. So, if you want Extension to work, fix the CMOF file.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 5 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    All machine-readable files are included in document DTC/2010-05-04, including CMOF files.
    The zip file with these files is attached: 2010-05-04.zip
    There are several sections under chapter 16 (chapter 15 of the final draft) that indicate the location of machine-readable files.
    Introduce a new section before Section 16.2 XSD

    • Section 15.2 Machine readable files
      BPMN 2.0 machine readable files, including XSD, XMI and XSLT files can be found in OMG Document DTC/2010-05-04, which is a zip file containing all the files.
      XSD files are found under the XSD folder of the zip file, and the main file is XSD/BPMN20.xsd.
      XMI files are found under the XMI folder of the zip file, and the main file is XSD/BPMN20.cmof.
      XSLT files are found under the XSLT folder of the zip file.
    • Section 16.2 XSD
      Remove the first two paragraphs (starting "The BPMN 2.0 XSD").
    • Section 16.3 XMI
      Remove the first paragraph (starting "The BPMN 2.0 XMI").
    • Section 16.4 XSLT Transformation between XSD and XMI
      Replace the paragraph with the following text:
    • The XSLT transformation from XSD to XMI is in the file XSLT/BPMN20-ToXMI.xslt
    • The XSLT transformation from XMI to XSD is in the file XSLT/BPMN20-FromXMI.xslt
      Disposition: Resolved
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Mutiple depictions of a single semantic element

  • Key: BPMN2-245
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15029
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    When a single semantic element has multiple depictions (e.g. DataObjects), this forces the requirement for the target and source information to be duplicated in the DI schema in oder to know where to draw the association (i.e to which instance).

    In the case of DatStore, the solution was to have only one semantic element dataStore and have dataSoreRefs as depictable duplicate elements.

    Maybe the same could be explored for DataObjects

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 2 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 15080 will also resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Depictable element without a reference semantic element

  • Key: BPMN2-244
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15028
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    When a Depictable element does not have a semantic element to reference, this forces the DI to duplicate target and source information in the schema in order to properly depict such elements.

    This is the case for at least the Conversation links which are depicted (e.g. figure 11-11)in conversation diagrams but do not have a semantic element.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 2 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue is addressed by the porposal at issue 15067
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

The example provided in Figure 10-22 and its serilization in Table 10-19 are incorrect or at least misleading

  • Key: BPMN2-249
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15042
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    The example is provided to showcase human performers.

    Figure 10-22 incorrectly depicts a pool in a process diagram. It should be a lane named: Buyer. (i.e. remove the line seperating the label Buyer from its content)

    Table 10-19 provide an incorrect serialization. There should be a laneset element with a single lane named : Buyer.

    The use of the string Buyer as process id is also very misleading.

    This example should be completly revalidated for correctness....critical because it is the only example of a serialization of the semantic of a process.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 5 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue is addressed by 15163
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Add an attribute that can identify a rulebase/rule engine for Business Rule Task

  • Key: BPMN2-248
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15040
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Intalio, Inc. ( Tammo van Lessen)
  • Summary:

    Currently, a Business Rule Task has only an "implementation" attribute that is used to identify the technology used to interact/communicate with a rule engine (e.g. Web Service or any other protocol).

    However, there is no possibility to identify to which rule engine the data should be sent nor which rule set should be processed. I believe that this information is crucial from a vendor perspective.

    My suggestion is to add an anyURI-attribute called "ruleSet" (perhaps there is more generic term). The attribute's value can be resolved at runtime/deployment time by BPMS to identify both, rule engine and ruleset or other rule engine specific settings.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Sat, 1 Aug 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Closed; No Change — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Since the business rule task is underspecified, vendor specific extensions are needed anyway. So there is no real value in adding any additional attribute, since
    interoperability will not be possible.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Confusing semantics for Terminate End Event

  • Key: BPMN2-247
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15038
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Open Text Inc. ( Robert Shapiro)
  • Summary:

    The spec has two confusing statements for Terminate End Event:

    In section 10.4.3: Terminate: This type of End indicates that all activities in the Process should be immediately ended. This includes all instances of Multi-Instances. The Process is ended without compensation or event handling.

    In section 14.4.6: Sub-process level end events: For a “terminate” End Event, the Sub-Process is abnormally terminated. In case of a multi-instance Activity, only the affected instance is terminated.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 4 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Terminate End Events only interrupt the specific instance of a given Process level (Process or Sub-Process). Any other parallel instances or higher-level instances are
    not affected.
    (a) Section 14.4.6, Sub-Section "Process level end events": Replace the first sentence with the following: "For a "terminate" End Event, the Process instance is
    abnormally terminated—no other ongoing Process instances are affected."
    (b) 14.4.6, Sub-Section "Sub-Process level end events": Replace the first paragraph with the following: "For a "terminate" End Event, the Sub-Process instance is
    abnormally terminated. In case of a multi-instance Sub-Process, only the affected instance is terminated—no other ongoing Sub-Process instances or higher-level Sub-
    Process or Process instances are affected.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Ambiguity when multiple message flows associated with a choreography task

  • Key: BPMN2-237
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14890
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Red Hat ( Gary Brown)
  • Summary:

    a choreography task is associated with more than two message flows, or with two message flows that are in the same direction (i.e. same sending and receiving participants), then the ordering of the message flows is ambiguous.

    If the choreography is ambiguous, and process models associated with each participant in the choreography are independently developed, it may mean that the resulting process models may not be able to interact correctly.

    There are a couple of possible solutions:

    1) Only permit a choreography task to have a max of two message flows. If two are defined, then they must be in opposite directions.

    2) If more than two message flows are defined, then an MEP (and possibly other additional supporting information) needs to be specified that makes the ordering explicit. For example, request/response/fault MEP could be specified, where only one message flow could be in one direction (i.e. the request), and all others are in the opposite direction - and the semantics would be that only one of the 'response' message flows could occur. Note: not sure whether it would be necessary to distinguish those flows as one normal response and remaining being fault responses - may be necessary to map to standard rpc pattern.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    PDF page 360:
    (a) Replace: "A single Choreography Task can be used for one (1) or more Messages. Most of the time there will be one (1) or two (2) Messages for a Choreography
    Task."
    With: "A single Choreography Task can be used for one (1) or two (2) Messages, with at most one (1) Message per Participant."
    PDF page 388:
    (b) Change schema for tChoreographyTask "<xsd:element name="messageFlowRef" type="xsd:QName" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>" so that
    maxOccurs is 2.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

ResourceParameter::type attribute should be of type ItemDefinition, not Element

  • Key: BPMN2-251
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15045
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Mr. Matthias Kloppmann)
  • Summary:

    Table 8.59 currently describes that the type of the "type" attribute of ResourceParameter is "Element". For consistency with other similar attributes, the type should really be "ItemDefinition".

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Table 8.59, page 98 (128 pdf), second row, first column: Replace "element" with "itemDefinition"
    (b) Update Figure 8.44, page 97 (127 pdf) to reflect the above change
    (c) Update XSD schema to reflect the above change
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Parallel Event Based Gateway capability is hidden away

  • Key: BPMN2-250
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15044
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Section 10.5.6 (pg 306) talks about the Parallel Event Based Gateway and introduces new notation for it (Figure 10.115). But that concept and notation doesn't appear in other parts of the document.

    I would expect to see it in Section 7.2.2 (pg 56) and also in Figure 10.99 (pg 294). Otherwise, it would be extremely easy to miss this new capability.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In Table 7.2 (BPMN Extended Modeling Elements):

    • in the row with left column containing "Gateway Control Types", in
      the right column, to the right of the symbol for Event-Based,
      insert the symbol in Figure 10.115 (Parallel Event-Based Gateway to
      start a Process).
    • in the row with left column containing "Event-Based":
    • in the middle column, at the end, add the paragraph:
      Parallel Event-based gateways start a new instance of the
      process.
    • in the right column, at the bottom, insert a copy of the
      subfigure at the top of the column, except replace the diamond
      shape with the symbol in Figure 10.115 (Parallel Event-Based
      Gateway to start a Process), and remove the rounded rectangle
      and the arrow going out of it.
      In Figure 10.99 (The Different types of Gateways), to the right of the
      symbol for Event-Based, insert the symbol in Figure 10.115 (Parallel
      Event-Based Gateway to start a Process).
      Disposition: Resolved
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Inconsistent/confusing statements around CallActivities and IOSpecifications

  • Key: BPMN2-239
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14921
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Does a CallActivity own data inputs, outputs, etc? And when you draw a data association to/from a CallActivity, is the data association connecting to/from data inputs and outputs of the CallActivity or data inputs and outputs of the CallableElement?

    PDF pg 196 states that "Call Activities must not define their own data inputs, InputSets, and outputs, OutputSets but use the data inputs, InputSets, and outputs, OutputSets defined in the referenced CallableElement"

    This reads like CallActivities don't own data inputs/outputs of their own.

    But then PDF pg 225 states that "... the data inputs and outputs of the Call Activity must match with the data inputs, inputsets and outputs, outputsets defined in the callable element".

    This explicitly states that a CallActivity does own data inputs, etc. So then what's the meaning behind the statements on PDF pg 196?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 6 Jan 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    a) in section 10.2.6 Call Activity, replace the following paragrah:
    "Since Call Activities rely in the CallableElement being invoked (see Figure 10.40), Call Activities must not define their own data inputs, InputSets, and outputs,
    OutputSets but use the data inputs, InputSets, and outputs, OutputSets defined in the referenced CallableElement."
    with this one:
    "A CallActivity must fullfil the data requirements, as well as return the data produced by the CallableElement being invoked (see Figure 10.40). This means that the
    elements contained in the CallActivity's InputOutputSpecification must exactly match the elements containes in the referenced CallableElement. This includes
    DataInputs, DataOutputs, InputSets and OutputSets."
    b) in section 10.3.1 Data Modeling (Call Activity Mapping) replace the following paragraph:
    "Since Call Activities rely in the callable element being invoked, the data inputs and outputs of the Call Activity must match with the data inputs, inputsets and outputs,
    outputsets defined in the callable element. The data inputs and outputs of the Call Activity are mapped to the corresponding data inputs and output of the Callable
    Element without any explicit data association."
    with this one:
    "The DataInputs and DataOutputs of the CallActivity are mapped to the corresponding elements in the CallableElement without any explicit data association."
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Table 10-4 page 162 List of possible states of an Activity instance

  • Key: BPMN2-243
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15027
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    The enumeration of possible states for an Activity does not reflect the possible states as per the execution semantics provided in chapter 14 on the state diagram figure 14-2

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 2 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    > Section 10. Process
    Table 10.2 - Process Instance Attributes
    Change row: state
    Original
    Attribute Name
    state: string = none

    {none | ready | active | cancelled | aborting | aborted | completing | completed}
    Description/Usage
    The current state of this Process instance.
    Proposal
    Attribute Name
    state: string = none
    Description/Usage
    The current state of this Process instance. Cf. Figure 14.2 ("The Lifecycle of a BPMN Activity") in section 14.2.2 for permissible values.
    > Section 10.2 Activities
    Table 10.2 - Activity instance attributes
    Change row: state
    Original
    Attribute Name
    state: string = none{none | ready | active | cancelled | aborting | aborted | completing | completed}

    Description/Usage
    The current state of this activity instance.
    Proposal
    Attribute Name
    state: string = none
    Description/Usage
    The current state of this activity instance. Cf. Figure 14.2 ("The Lifecycle of a BPMN Activity") in section 14.2.2 for permissible values.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Clarify "Instance of this Conversation."

  • Key: BPMN2-242
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14966
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The text uses the term "instance of this Conversation." This should be clarified.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The problem could not be reproduced so the proposal is to close this issue with no changes to the specification.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Change plural "flow" to "flows"

  • Key: BPMN2-241
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14965
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    BPMN has used Message Flow and Sequence Flow to refer to the terms for both singular and plural uses. In the interest of reducing confusion, change the plural forms to Message Flows and Sequence Flows.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In all cases where the word "flow" is used in plural form, change the word to "flows." This would include all plural instances Sequence Flow and Message Flow.
    Note: there will be change tracking markings, but there will not be an annotation for each occurrence of this change.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Correlation key property values from process instances

  • Key: BPMN2-240
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14932
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    How are correlation key property values pulled from a process instance?
    Correlation Property Retrieval Expression only maps the contents of the
    message instance to a key instance, not to the process instance.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 7 Jan 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:
    • Added improved description as part of 14703.
    • Correlation key properties are only pulled from a message, on behalf of a process instance (via the associated conversation that the send/receive task or message
      event belongs to), and thus assigned as a key to the process instance. Thus nothing needs to be added.
      Disposition: Closed, No Change
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Clarification of Temporal Sematics of Sequence Flow

  • Key: BPMN2-252
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15049
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Agile Enterprise Design ( Mr. Fred A. Cummins)
  • Summary:

    While tokens may help explain behavior, the specification should not rely on the concept of tokens to define the normative behavior of model elements.

    Sequence flows represent temporal constraints requiring that an "incoming" constraint be satisfied before a flow element can be executed. The specification should refer to the sequence of execution or the flow of control rather than the flow of tokens.

    While the specification explicitly says that tokens are a theoretical concept for explanation of behavior, the specification refers to the flow of tokens in many places. For example, the end event behavior is described as "The Process will be in a running state until all tokens are consumed."

    Since tokens are not required for compliance, the normative definitions of behavior should not be specified in terms of token flows but in terms of satisfaction of temporal constraints.

    Consistent use of temporal constraint semantics is importnant for specialization of processes (addition of intervening elements) and analysis of processes such as validation of compliance with a choreography.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close; No Change. The FTF decided that the issue report does not identify a problem with the BPMN 2.0 specification
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Exclusive Gateway (missing sub-heading)

  • Key: BPMN2-238
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14919
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Atos Origin ( Lyndon Roy)
  • Summary:

    I believe that there is a sub-heading missing between sections 14.3.1 and 14.3.2.; the missing sub-heading relates to the Exlusive gateway description found on pages 399-400 (429-430).

    The text of the sub-heading appears after table 14.1 (the text is 'Exclusive Gateway (Exclusive Decision (data-based) and Exclusive Merge)') but it hasn't been tagged as a sub-heading.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 4 Jan 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 14.3.1, page 398 (428 pdf), last sentence on page: Reformat sentence to make it a level 3 heading
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

For DI: All graphical elements should have a Semantic Counterpart

  • Key: BPMN2-273
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15102
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Most graphical elements have a semantic counterpart. It should be a design principle that all elements follow this pattern. One exception is the Communication Link, which is merely an association between two Elements. The Communication Link, and any other similar DI situations, should be given its own semantic element.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 1 Mar 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 15068 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Review the use of RFC2119 keywords

  • Key: BPMN2-272
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15095
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: SAP SE ( Ivana Trickovic)
  • Summary:

    Ensure consistent use of RFC-2119 keywords (“MUST,” “MUST NOT,” “REQUIRED,” “SHALL,” “MUST NOT,” “SHOULD,” “SHOULD NOT,” “RECOMMENDED,” “MAY,” and “OPTIONAL”).

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 1 Mar 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Make the following changes in the document (Beta 1, Aug 2009, pdf)
    (1) Change all must occurrences to MUST (in sections 2-12 and 14-16, excluding 3.1 and 3.2)
    (2) Change all must not occurrences to MUST NOT (in sections 2-12 and 14-16, excluding 3.1 and 3.2)
    (3) Change all are NOT/is NOT occurrences to are not/is not (in sections 2-12 and 14-16, excluding 3.1 and 3.2)
    (4) Change all required occurrences to REQUIRED (in sections 2-12 and 14-16, except in figure 10.121; do not change occurrences of 'required' and
    "required")
    (5) Change all shall occurrences to SHALL (in sections 2-12 and 14-16, excluding 3.1 and 3.2)
    (6) Change all shall not occurrences to SHALL NOT (in sections 2-12 and 14-16, excluding 3.1 and 3.2)
    (7) Change all recommended occurrences to RECOMMENDED (in sections 2-12 and 14-16, excluding 3.1 and 3.2)
    (8) In addition make the following changes

    • Page 19: Include
      "A Start Event generates a token that MUST be consumed at an End Event (which is implicit if not graphically displayed)."
      instead of
      "A Start Event generates a token that must eventually be consumed at an End Event (which may be implicit if not graphically displayed)."
    • Pages 131, 221, 225, 236: Include
      "All Message Flow MUST connect two separate Pools. They MAY connect to the Pool boundary or to Flow Objects within the Pool boundary. They MUST NOT
      connect two objects within the same Pool."
      instead of
      "All Message Flow must connect two separate Pools. They can connect to the Pool boundary or to Flow Objects within the Pool boundary. They cannot connect two
      objects within the same Pool."
    • Page 160: Include
      "First, the transaction protocol needs to verify that all the Participants have successfully completed their end of the Transaction."
      instead of
      "First, the transaction protocol must verify that all the Participants have successfully completed their end of the Transaction."
    • Page 164: Include
      "The addition of Sequence Flow between the Tasks (e.g., between "Generate Graphics" and "Include Graphics in Text") creates a dependency where the performance
      of the first Task MUST be followed by a
      performance of the second Task. This does not mean that the second Task is be performed immediately, but there MUST be a performance of the second Task after
      the performance of the first Task."
      instead of
      "The addition of Sequence Flow between the Tasks (e.g., between "Generate Graphics" and "Include Graphics in Text") creates a dependency where the performance
      of the first Task must be followed by a performance
      of the second Task. This does not mean that the second Task must be performed immediately, but there must be a performance of the second Task after the
      performance of the first Task."
    • Page 197: Include
      "The implementation of the element where the OutputSet is defined determines the OutputSet that will be produced."
      instead of
      "The implementation of the element where the OutputSet is defined must determine the OutputSet that will be produced."
    • Page 310: Include
      "However, if there are more than two (2) Participants, then the modeler needs to be careful to sequence the Choreography Activities in such a way that the Participants
      know when they are responsible for initiating the interactions."
      instead of
      "However, if there are more than two (2) Participants, then the modeler must be careful to sequence the Choreography Activities in such a way that the Participants
      know when they are responsible for initiating the nteractions."
    • Page 313: Include
      "The data referenced in the conditions need to be visible to two (2) or more Participants in the Choreography"
      instead of
      "The data referenced in the conditions must be visible to two (2) or more Participants in the Choreography"
    • Page 328: Include
      "The data used to define the loop conditions need to be visible to all Participants"
      instead of
      "The data used to define the loop conditions must be visible to all Participants"
    • Page 328: Include
      "This means that the ordering of Choreography Activities need to take into account when the Participants send or receive..."
      instead of
      "This means that the ordering of Choreography Activities must take into account when the Participants send or receive..."
    • Pages 335, 336: Include
      "The data are be visible to the Participants as it was data of a previously sent Message."
      instead of
      "The data must be visible to the Participants as it was data of a previously sent Message."
    • Page 2: Include
      "Where permitted or requested connections are specified as conditional"
      instead of
      "Where permitted or required connections are specified as conditional"
    • Page 3: Include
      "Some of these attributes are purely representational and are so marked, and some have mandated representations."
      instead of
      "Some of these attributes are purely representational and are so marked, and some have required representations."
    • Page 11: Include
      "Section 8 introduces the BPMN Core that includes basic BPMN elements needed..."
      instead of
      "Section 8 introduces the BPMN Core that includes basic BPMN elements required..."
    • Page 13: Include
      "... it is likely that business analysts need to understand multiple representations..."
      instead of
      "...it is likely that business analysts are required to understand multiple representations..."
    • Pages 15, 124, 126: Include
      "Thus, information needed for execution, such as formal condition expressions are typically not included in a non-executable Process."
      instead of
      "Thus, information required for execution, such as formal condition expressions are typically not included in a non-executable Process."
    • Pages 15, 126. Include
      "...the public Process shows to the outside world the Message Flow and the order of those Message Flow that are necessary to interact..."
      instead of
      "...the public Process shows to the outside world the Message Flow and the order of those Message Flow that are required to interact..."
    • Page 20: Include
      "There are two (2) standardized Artifacts, but modelers or modeling tools are free to add as many Artifacts as necessary."
      instead of
      "There are two (2) standardized Artifacts, but modelers or modeling tools are free to add as many Artifacts as required."
    • Page 51: Include
      "It is the intention of this specification to cover the basic elements necessary for the construction..."
      instead of
      "It is the intention of this specification to cover the basic elements required for the construction"
    • Page 53: Include
      "For example, an EventDefinition may be contained in a Process since it may be only required there."
      instead of
      "For example, an EventDefinition would be contained in a Process if it is used only there."
    • Page 131: Include
      "The following sections define how Resources can be defined..."
      instead of
      "The following sections define how required Resources can be defined..."
    • Page 143: Include
      "In many business workflows, human involvement is required to complete certain..."
      instead of
      "In many business workflows, human involvement is needed to complete certain"
    • Page 162: Include
      "The default setting is parallel and the setting of sequential is a restriction on the performance that may be needed due to shared resources."
      instead of
      "The default setting is parallel and the setting of sequential is a restriction on the performance that may be required due to shared resources."
    • Page 163: Include
      "Although there is no explicit Process structure,..."
      instead of
      "Although there is no required formal Process structure,"
      -Page 190: Include
      "Activities and Processes often require data in order to execute."
      instead of
      "Activities and Processes often required data in order to execute."
      -Page 296: Include
      "For example, Order Id is necessary for in all Messages of Message Flow in Delivery Negotiation."
      instead of
      "For example, Order Id is required for in all Messages of Message Flow in Delivery Negotiation."
    • Page 397: Include
      "In practice, it would entail a special-purpose mediator which not only provides the extraction and data assignment, but also any necessary data transformation."
      instead of
      "In practice, it would entail a special-purpose mediator which not only provides the extraction and data assignment, but also any required data transformation."
    • Page 437: Include
      "Second, the activities that need to be duplicated can be removed from the main Process and placed in a derived process that is called (invoked) from all locations in
      the WSBPEL elements as needed."
      instead of
      "Second, the activities that need to be duplicated can be removed from the main Process and placed in a derived process that is called (invoked) from all locations in
      the WSBPEL elements as required."
    • Page 438: Include
      "...particularly if a WSBPEL pick is requested."
      instead of
      "...particularly if a WSBPEL pick is required"
    • Page 439: Include
      "Such "incomplete" models are ones in which all of the mandatory attributes have not yet been filled in, or the cardinality lowerbound of attributes and associations has
      not been satisfied."
      instead of
      "Such "incomplete" models are ones in which all of the required attributes have not yet been filled in, or the cardinality lowerbound of attributes and associations has not
      been satisfied."
    • Page 4: Include
      "• how the feature will be displayed
      • whether the feature will be displayed
      • whether the feature will be supported"
      instead of
      "• how the feature shall be displayed
      • whether the feature shall be displayed
      • whether the feature shall be supported"
    • Page 68: Include
      "a Conversation may additionally refer to explicitly updateable Process context data to determine whether or not a Message need to be received"
      instead of
      "a Conversation may additionally refer to explicitly updateable Process context data to determine whether or not a Message shall be received"
    • Page 11: Include
      "The following abbreviations are used throughout this document:"
      instead of
      "The following abbreviations may be used throughout this document:"
    • Page 14: Include
      "BPMN 2.0 can be mapped to more than one platform dependent"
      instead of
      "BPMN 2.0 may be mapped to more than one platform dependent"
    • Page 15: Include
      "Collaborations, which can include Processes and/or Choreographies"
      instead of
      "Collaborations, which may include Processes and/or Choreographies"
    • Page 16: Include
      "The Messages associated with the Message Flow can also be shown."
      instead of
      "The Messages associated with the Message Flow may also be shown."
      Disposition: Resolved
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Rename "Call" Elements

  • Key: BPMN2-277
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15115
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The names Call Conversation and Call Choreography are confusing and incorrect. Conversations and Choreographies are not elements that can be "called."
    Also the Call Activity may be technically correct, it is a term not oriented for business modelers. It would be best to change the terminology for all elements that "call."

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 4 Mar 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Reason:

    • The change will cause a lot of instability in the spec as it touches so much.
    • As the CallActivity in Orchestration keeps the term "Call" the spec becomes inconsistent.
    • Even if "Call" is a technical term, it seems to be accepted by the BPMN community at least for the Orchestration case. Why should it be inaceptable in the
      Choreagraphy area?
    • "Use" is a very unspecific and frequently used term that makes is difficult to explain the meaning of the C-Activites in sentences like "Use a UseConversation actity to
      reference conversations that are used".
    • Even if the spec is not final, the community starts using the terms from the Beta. These people will be confused by such significant term change.
      Reiner.
      Disposition: Closed, No Change
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

XML Schema is not strict enough

  • Key: BPMN2-276
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15105
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: SAP SE ( Reiner Hille-Doering)
  • Summary:

    The XML Schemas BPMN20.xsd and Semantic.xsd define lots of global elements. This allows the elements to be used as XML file root. I don't think that this is intended: BPMN 2.0 files should be always rooted with "bpmn:definitions", and only a few elements are allowed as sub elements (including imports, diagrams and all root elements).

    The current design would e.g. make a file be a valid BPMN 2.0 file which consists of a single activity only.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 2 Mar 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Include the following text to chapter 16.2. For details see attachment (use newer version).
    Document Structure
    A domain-specific set of model elements is interchanged in one or more BPMN files. The root element of each file MUST be <bpmn:definitions>. The set of files must
    be self-contained, i.e. all definitions that are used in a file MUST be imported directly or indirectly using the <bpmn:import> element.
    Each file must declare a "targetNamespace" which MAY differ between multiple files of one model.
    BPMN files MAY import non-BPMN files (such as XSDs and WSDLs) if the contained elements use external definitions.
    Example:
    main.bpmn
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <bpmn:definitions xmlns:bpmn="http://schema.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0"
    targetNamespace="sample1.main" xmlns:main="sample1.main" xmlns:s1="sample1.semantic1">
    <bpmn:import location="semantic1.bpmn" namespace="sample1.semantic1"
    importType="http://schema.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0" />
    <bpmn:import location="diagram1.bpmn" namespace="sample1.diagram1"
    importType="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMNDI/1.0.0" />
    <bpmn:collaboration>
    <bpmn:participant processRef="s1:process1" id="collaboration1"></bpmn:participant>
    </bpmn:collaboration>
    </bpmn:definitions>
    semantic1.bpmn
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <bpmn:definitions xmlns:bpmn="http://schema.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0" targetNamespace="sample1.semantic1"
    xmlns:s1="sample1.semantic1">
    <bpmn:process id="process1">
    <!-- content here -->
    </bpmn:process>
    </bpmn:definitions>
    diagram1.bpmn
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <bpmn:definitions xmlns:bpmn="http://schema.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0"
    targetNamespace="sample1.diagram1"
    xmlns:bpmndi="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMNDI/1.0.0"
    xmlns:d1="sample1.diagram1" xmlns:s1="sample1.semantic1"
    xmlns:main="sample1.main">
    <bpmndi:BPMNDiagram scale="0.0" unit="Pixel">
    <bpmndi:BPMNPlane element="main:collaboration1">
    </bpmndi:BPMNPlane>
    </bpmndi:BPMNDiagram>
    </bpmn:definitions>
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Missing loopCharacteristics for Choreography stuff in MM

  • Key: BPMN2-282
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15139
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: SAP SE ( Reiner Hille-Doering)
  • Summary:

    The spec mentions in chapter 12.4.1ff loops for choreography elements, such as ChoreographyTasks, but in the metamodel none caries a loopCharacteristics. Normal orchestration activities inherit the attribute from the “Activity” class, but ChoreographyActivity does not inherit from Activity.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Add a new attribute named loopType the is of the type ChoreographyLoopType enumeration for a Choreography Task.
    (b) Add a new enumeration named ChoreographyLoopType with four literals of None (default), Standard, MultiInstanceSequential, and MultiInstanceParallel
    (c) Update Figure 12.6 to include these changes
    Add a new row to Table 12.2 :
    (d) The first column of the new row should contain:
    "loopType: ChoreographyLoopType = None"
    (e) The second column of the new row should contain:
    "A Choreography Activity may be performed once or may be repeated. The loopType attribute will determine the appropriate marker for the Choreography Activity
    (see below)."
    Section 12.4.1, Page 318 (348 pdf):
    (f) 3rd bullet on page: change "two (2)" to "three (3)"
    (g) 4th bullet on page: add the following to the end of the bullet: "The loopType of the Choreography Task MUST be Standard"
    (h) 5th bullet on page: change "multi-instance" to "parallel multi-instance"
    5th bullet on page: add the following to the end of the bullet: "The loopType of the Choreography Task MUST be MultiInstanceParallel."
    (j) Add a new bullet after the 5th bullet with the following: "The marker for a Choreography Task that is sequential multi-instance MUST be a set of three horizontal
    lines. The loopType of the Choreography Task MUST be MultiInstanceSequential."
    (k) Update Figure 12.12 to show the sequential multi-instance marker.
    (l) Caption for Figure 12.14: Change "Multi-Instance" to "Parallel Multi-Instance"
    Section 12.4.2, Page 324 (354 pdf):
    (m) 3rd bullet on page: change "two (2)" to "three (3)"
    4th bullet on page: add the following to the end of the bullet: "The loopType of the Choreography Sub-Process MUST be Standard."
    (o) 5th bullet on page: change "multi-instance" to "parallel multi-instance"
    (p) 5th bullet on page: add the following to the end of the bullet: "The loopType of the Choreography Sub-Process MUST be MultiInstanceParallel."
    (q) Add a new bullet after the 5th bullet with the following: "The marker for a Choreography Sub-Process that is sequential multi-instance MUST be a set of three
    horizontal lines. The loopType of the Choreography Sub-Process MUST be MultiInstanceSequential."
    (r) Update Figure 12.22 to show the sequential multi-instance marker.
    (s) Section 12.4.5: add the following to the end of the first paragraph: "Examples of Choreography Activities with the appropriate markers can be seen in Figure 12.12
    and Figure 12.22"
    (t) Table 12.11 Choreography Activity XML Schema: Add the following:
    "<xsd:attribute name="loopType" type="tChoreographyLoopType" default="Standard"/>
    ...
    <xsd:simpleType name="tChoreographyLoopType">
    <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
    <xsd:enumeration value="Standard"/>
    <xsd:enumeration value="MultiInstanceSequential"/>
    <xsd:enumeration value="MultiInstanceParallel"/>
    </xsd:restriction>
    </xsd:simpleType>"
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Figure 12-21, Sub-process marker missing

  • Key: BPMN2-281
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15137
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The Figure 12-21 shows a Choreography Sub-Process. However the + marker is
    missing

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Add the + marker to Figure 12.21
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Mismatch in DataAssociation definition between spec and XSD

  • Key: BPMN2-280
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15133
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    tDataAssociation in the BPMN XSD does not match how it is defined in the spec or UML metamodel.

    Specifically, in the spec and MM, the DataAssociation has source and target associations. In the XSD, those are not on tDataAssocation, but rather on the subclasses.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue is a duplicate of OMG Issue 14718 14718
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Receive Task is not mentioned as an instantiating element

  • Key: BPMN2-279
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15122
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Intalio, Inc. ( Tammo van Lessen)
  • Summary:

    In 14.1, process instantiation is described. The possibilities described there are message start events and an event based gateway with out incoming sequence flow. However, on page 139, the receive task is described to be capable to instantiate process instance as well. Also the metamodel describes the "instantiate" attribute for that task.

    I suggest to add a paragraph to 14.1 that describes the instantiating behavior of a receive task.

    In addition, is it intentional that in "In order for the Task to Instantiate the Process it must meet one of the following conditions" on p139, "Instantiate" is written with a capital I?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 8 Mar 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 14799 will resolve this issue.
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Merge Collaboration and Choreography in Metamodel

  • Key: BPMN2-278
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15119
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Collaborations and Choreographies have a large degree of overlap in underlying capabilities--basically being a collection of Participants and Message Flow. Choreography only adds the sequencing of the Message Flow. It would be useful to be able to take the same interaction model and display it as either a Collaboration or a Choreography. The definition of those views would determine what should be displayed and how they are displayed.
    A merger of the two diagrams in the metamodel would greatly simplify the implementation, add flexibility, and improve BPMN support of other specifications, such as SoaML.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 4 Mar 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 14654 provides the resolution for this issue.
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Missing in XML example

  • Key: BPMN2-284
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15147
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Camunda Services GmbH ( Gerardo Navarro Suarez)
  • Summary:

    On page 180 begins the serialized XML example (table 10.19) of the process model shown in figure 10.23 . The definition of a sequence flow is missing in the serialized XML.

    The process model has 11 flows, but in the XML example there are only 10 sequence flows defined. So one is missing.

    The missing flow is that one between AND - Join (called "OrderAndShipmentMerge") and the user task "Review order".

    ---Proposal------ 03/24/2010 --------------
    ##Proposed Resolution: Fixed

    (a) Insert the following XML node into the example:
    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="OrderAndShipmentMerge" targetRef="ReviewOrder"/>
    Table 10.19 | Page 152 (182)

    (b) The best position would be on page 152 (182) between the tags <parallelGateway ...> and <userTask id="ReviewOrder" ...> .
    Table 10.19 | Page 152 (182)

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Insert the following XML node into the example:<sequenceFlow sourceRef="OrderAndShipmentMerge" targetRef="ReviewOrder"/> Table 10.19 | Page 152
    (182)
    (b) The best position would be on page 152 (182) between the tags <parallelGateway ...> and <userTask id="ReviewOrder" ...> .
    Table 10.19 | Page 152 (182)
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Missing label of a compensation activity

  • Key: BPMN2-283
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15146
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Camunda Services GmbH ( Gerardo Navarro Suarez)
  • Summary:

    Figure 10.9 contains three activities with different markers. 2 of them have a label above describing the type of the marker.But the activity on the right hand side misses it's label.

    This issue doesn't appear in the official Beta 1 from August 2009. So the issue appears only in the FTF Beta 1 for Version 2.0 Draft 1.

    ---Proposal------ 03/24/2010 --------------
    ##Proposed Resolution: Fixed

    (a) Insert a label saying "Compensation". Position that label over the task with the compensation marker.
    Figure 10.9 | Page 134 (166)

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Insert a label saying "Compensation". Position that label over the task with the compensation marker. Figure 10.9 | Page 134 (166)
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Missing marker in Compensation Activity

  • Key: BPMN2-286
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15150
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Camunda Services GmbH ( Gerardo Navarro Suarez)
  • Summary:

    In figure 10.97 the compensation subprocess "Undo Booking" doesn't have a compensation marker.

    In Chapter 10.6.1 of the specification the second paragraph says: "The Compensation Activity, which can be either a Task or a
    Sub-Process, has a marker to show that it is used for compensation only and is outside the normal flow of the
    Process."

    ---- Proposal ------- 03/25/2010 ------------
    ##Proposed Resolution: Fixed

    (a) Position a compensation marker on the left of the supprocess marker in the Compensation activity "Undo Booking".

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Insert the missing compensation marker on the left hand side of the Sub-Process marker. Updating figure 10.97 on page 255 (285)
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Process Model and Model Description are not consistent

  • Key: BPMN2-285
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15149
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Camunda Services GmbH ( Gerardo Navarro Suarez)
  • Summary:

    Figure 11.03; The Communication between Consignee Shipper and Consolidator has the name "Delivery / Dispatch Plan". But the description of the conversation model (below figure 11.3) says something else.

    In the Text this converstation is called "Detailed Shipment Schedule". Quotation out of the paragraph: "More than two participants may be involved in a Conversation, e.g., Consignee, Consolidator and Shipper in Detailed Shipment Schedule."

    ---- Proposal ------- 03/25/2010 ------------
    ##Proposed Resolution: Fixed

    (a) Rename the Communication into "Detailed Shipment Schedule".

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Rename the Communication into "Detailed Shipment Schedule".
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Allow referencing scripts instead of enfocing inline specification

  • Key: BPMN2-274
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15103
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: University of Stuttgart - ISW ( Frank Leymann)
  • Summary:

    Use Case: When using BPMN 2.0 in systems management environments many tasks will be implemented as scripts. Especially, a huge amount of scripts already exist in these environments and BPMN 2.0 should support an easy and straightforward way to allow making use of them as script activity implementations.

    Issue: Scripts to be performed must be copied to the already defined @script attribute to make it inline to the script task. In practice, this is not only redundant but also introduces a lot of potential consistency problems because the proper script might be subject to change; in that case, all copies in all script tasks must be found and adapted accordingly.

    Prososed resolution: Add a new attribute @scriptRef (of type URI or QName) to the scriptTask element. This allows to point to the script to be executed.

    Minor comments: There is no need to introduce the script separately as an operation of some (artificial) interface. This should be clarified.

    The script task refers to a NONE task which has been renamed into Abstract Task: needs to be fixed.

    An associated document (BPMN Script Invocation.DOCX) with more background has been sent to Tammo van Lessen

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 2 Mar 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The functionality proposed is provided by other means.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

How to reference particular instances of Data Objects that are Collections

  • Key: BPMN2-275
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15104
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: University of Stuttgart - ISW ( Frank Leymann)
  • Summary:

    How can one address (in an <assignment>, for example) a particular instance of a multi-instance data object, i.e. a data object with attribute isCollection value set to "true"?

    It is unclear why the ioSpecification must be defined with isCollection=true to result in multi-instance execution of the task. Why isn't it sufficient to refer (via the dataInputAssociation/sourceRef element) to a multi-instance data object to trigger multi-instance exection of the task. Is the attribute isCollection needed as attribute of dataInput and dataOutput at all? [Multi Instance Tasks controlled by loopDataInput (Section 10.2.8)]

    I assume that defining a data object with isCollection=false based on an itemDefinition with isCollection=true is not allowed, correct? But the reverse is allowed as shown in the document. The question is why supporting isCollection as attribute of an item definition at all; supporting isCollection with elements using the item definition would suffice. [Item Definition as multi-instance (Section 8.3.12)]

    A corresponding document (BPMN Script invocation.DOCX) with more background has been sent to Tammo van Lessen.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 2 Mar 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 8.3.12 properly describes the behaviour in the case the data object is a collection.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Choreography should be a Sub-Class of Collaboration

  • Key: BPMN2-271
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15093
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The work on the merger between Conversation and Collaboration is making clear that Choreography is completely overlaps with (the merged) Collaboration, but extends its capabilities. Thus, it would make sense to make Choreography a sub-class of Collaboration. This would simplify the metamodel and make the Interaction Specification class no longer necessary

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 14654 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Additional participants in called/subconversation

  • Key: BPMN2-270
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15091
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Dale Moberg)
  • Summary:

    Called and subconversations should be able to have more participants
    than the calling/outer conversation. The additional participants
    would not be associated with any in the calling/outer conversation.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Called conversations can have additional participants. Subconversations cannot, they are owned by the containing conversation, but diagrams can show participants
    only in the subconversation, if desired.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Hexagons and message flow linked to activities

  • Key: BPMN2-261
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15067
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Filed for soaML: It should be possible to link hexagons (conversations /
    communications) to activities. This would mean messages flow from
    within the activity, which could be calls or subs. The hexagon can be
    expanded to show message flow connected to the activity, including calls
    and subs.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Conversation links are groupings of message flows, so they can be linked
    to activities and events just as message flow can. The resolution
    supports conversation links to activities and events, but not message
    flow to conversation nodes a requested by the issue. This restriction
    is only by textual constraint, if a future RTF would like to loosen it.
    Conversation Link is added to the metamodel to simplify implementation
    of this resolution. The notation for conversation links is changed to a
    double lines, to distinguish them from sequence flows when used with
    activities and events. The forked line end notation for conversation
    links ("crow's feet") is removed to simplify usage and implementation,
    since it is redundant with participant multiplicity notation.
    The resolution assumes the resolution of 14654.
    Refer to attached document
    Issue+531+figures-v3.doc
    for figures.
    In the BPMN Core Structure chapter, Message Flow subsection, in the
    figure The Message Flow Class Diagram, rename MessageFlowNode to
    InteractionNode, add ConversationNode as a subclass, and its association
    to Participant. See first figure in attached document.
    In the BPMN Core Structure chapter, Message Flow subsection, in the
    table Message Flow attributes and model associations:

    • replace "MessageFlowNode" with "InteractionNode" in the first two
      rows, both columns.
    • In the first two rows, right column, at the end of the sentences,
      add "of a Message Flow".
      In the BPMN Core Structure chapter, Message Flow section, Message Flow
      Node subsection:
    • Change the title of the subsection to Interaction Node
    • In the two paragraphs of the subsection, replace the two occurrences
      of "MessageFlowNode" in each paragraph with "InteractioNode".
    • In the first paragraph, delete the portion of the sentence starting
      with "and thus" to the end of the sentence.
    • At the end of the first paragraph, add the sentence "The
      InteractionNode element is also used to provide a single element for
      source and target of Conversation Links, see chapter XXXCollaboration.
      In the Collaboration section, in the figure Classes in the Collaboration
      package, add ConversationLink and InteractionNode and their associations
      and generalizations to other elements, see second figure in the attached
      document.
      In the Collaboration chapter, Participants section, in the figure The
      Participant Class Diagram, change the name of the MessageFlowNode
      metaclass to InteractionNode. See third figure in attached document.
      In the Collaboration section, in the table Collaboration Attributes and
      Model Associations, after the row for conversations, insert a new row:
    • conversationLinks: ConversationLink [0..*]
      This provides the Conversation Links that are used in the
      Collaboration.
      In the Collaboration chapter, Conversations section, at the end of the
      first paragraph, add the sentence "In particular, processes can appear
      the participants (pools) of conversation diagrams, to show how
      conversations and activities are related."
      In the Collaboration chapter in the Conversation Link section (was
      CommunicationLink before resolution of 14654), after
      the figure A Conversation Link element, insert a new figure captioned
      "The Conversation Link Class Diagram", showing ConversationLink and
      related classes, see the fourth figure in the attached document.
      After the above new figure, insert:
      The Conversation Link element inherits the attributes and model
      associations of BaseElement (see Table XX). Table XXXX presents the
      additional attributes and model associations for the Conversation Link
      element:
      then insert a table with the caption "Conversation Link attributes and
      model associations", and two columns headed "Attribute Name" and
      "Description/Usage" with the rows:
      name : String [0..1]
      Name is a text description of the Conversation Link.
      sourceRef: ConversationLinkNode
      The ConversationLinkNode that the Conversation Link is connecting
      from. A Conversation Link MUST connect to exactly one
      ConversationNode. If the sourceRef is not a ConversationNode, then
      the targetRef MUST be a ConversationNode.
      targetRef: ConversationLinkNode
      The ConversationLinkNode that the Conversation Link is connecting
      to. A Conversation Link MUST connect to exactly one
      ConversationNode. If the targetRef is not a ConversationNode, then
      the sourceRef MUST be a ConversationNode.
      In the Collaboration chapter in the Conversation Link section (was
      CommunicationLink before resolution of 14654), delete
      the figure Where Conversation Links are derived in the metamodel, and
      the paragraph after it (the last one in the section) and replace it with:
      Processes can appear in the participants (pools) of Conversation
      diagrams, as shown in Figure XXXX. The invoicing and ordering
      conversations have links into activities and events of the process in
      the Order Processor. The other two conversations do not have their
      links "expanded". Conversation links into activities that are not
      send or recieve tasks indicate that the activity will send or receive
      messages of the conversation at some level of nesting.
      After the above text, insert a figure captioned "Conversation links to
      activities and events" with the contents of the fifth figure in the
      attached document.
      In the Collaboration chapter, in the XML Schema section, in the table
      for Collaboration XML schema, under the conversations element, insert a
      new line:
      <xsd:element ref="conversationLink" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      In the Collaboration chapter, in the XML Schema section, after the table
      for Conversations, insert a new table, captioned "ConversationLink XML
      schema" containing:
      <xsd:element name="conversationLink" type="tConversationLink" substitutionGroup="rootElement"/>
      <xsd:complexType name="tConversationLink">
      <xsd:complexContent>
      <xsd:extension base="tBaseElement">
      <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="optional"/>
      <xsd:attribute name="sourceRef" type="xsd:QName" use="required"/>
      <xsd:attribute name="targetRef" type="xsd:QName" use="required"/>
      </xsd:extension>
      </xsd:complexContent>
      </xsd:complexType>
      In the Overview chapter, BPMN Scope section, Uses of BPMN subsection,
      figure An example of a Conversation diagram, on the lines coming out of
      the hexagons (the conversation links):
    • Change the line style to double thin lines.
    • Remove the forking on the participant ends of the lines.
      In Collaborations chapter, Conversation section, figure A Conversation,
      figure Conversation diagram depicting several conversations between
      Participants in a related domain, change the figure in the same way as
      the figure above.
      In Process chapter, Activities section, Sub-Processes subsection, Ad-Hoc
      Sub-Process subsubsection, in the bullet just above figure An Ad-Hoc
      Sub-Process with data and sequence dependencies, after "Conversation
      Links" insert "(graphically)".
      In Collaborations chapter, Conversation section, figure A Conversation
      diagram, on the lines coming out of the hexagon (conversation links),
      change the line style to double thin lines.
      In Collaborations chapter, Conversation section, figure Conversational
      view choreographies, on the lines coming out of the hexagon
      (conversation links), change the line style to double thin lines.
      In Collaborations chapter, Conversation section, COnversation Link
      subsection:
    • First paragraph, replace the second sentence with "Conversation
      links MUST be drawn with double thin lines.".
    • In figure A Conversation Link element:
    • On the lines coming out of the hexagon:
    • Change the line style to double thin lines.
    • Remove the forking on the participant ends of the lines.
    • Remove the text annotation on the lower right (the one that
      says "The Conversation Link source is forked if there are
      multiple connections").
      Disposition: Resolved
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

For Process within Collaboration, section 9.3 title is wrong and section 10.11 is empty

  • Key: BPMN2-260
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15064
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    9.3 title should be “Process within Collaboration” not simple “Collaboration” which is the title for all of section 9. Note that “Process within Collaboration” is also the title of section 10.11 which is completely empty.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Make the following changes in Beta 1:
    Section 9.3: Change the section heading to read "Process within Collaboration" (instead of "Collaboration").
    Section 10.11: Remove this (empty) chapter.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Data Objects should be defined with the same pattern a Data Stores and DataStoreRefs

  • Key: BPMN2-264
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15080
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    There can be multiple visible occurrences of the same DataObject according to the spec. But this seems to be wrong: there should be multiple occurrences of DataObjectRef, each referring to the same DataObject, as was done with DataStore and DataStoreRef

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue concerns multiple data objects icons appearing on the same
    diagram, but with the same name and different states, intending to
    represent the same runtime object for the duration of each execution of
    the diagram. The resolution addresses abstract syntax for this, leaving
    execution semantics to be filed as an issue in the RTF.
    In the sentence above Figure 10.47 (ItemAware class diagram), after
    "Data Objects," add "Data Object References,".
    In Figure 10.47 (ItemAware class diagram) add metaclass named
    "DataObjectReference", subclass of ItemAwareElement.
    DataObjectReference has one unidirectional association from it to
    DataObject. This association has multiplicity * on the
    DataObjectReference end and 1 on the DataObject end. The name on
    DataObject end is named dataObjectRef.
    In Section 10.3.1 (Data Modeling), Data Objects subsection, at the end
    of the first paragraph, add:
    Data Object References are a way to reuse Data Objects in the same
    diagram. They can specify different states of the same data object at
    different points in a process. Data Object Reference cannot specify
    item definitions, and Data Objects cannot specify states. The names
    of Data Object References are derived by concatenating the name of the
    referenced Data Object with the state of the Data Object Reference in
    square brackets as follows: <Data Object Name> [ <Data Object Reference
    State> ].
    In Figure 10.48 (DataObject class diagram) add metaclass named
    "DataObjectReference", subclass of FlowElement and ItemAwareElement.
    DataObjectReference with one unidirectional associations from it
    to DataObject as described above for Figure 10.47.
    Under Table 10.47 (DataObject model associations) add the paragraph:
    The DataObjectReference element inherits the attributes and model
    associations of ItemAwareElement (see Table YYY) and FlowElement (see
    Table 8.45). Table XXX presents the additional attributes of the
    DataObjectReference element:
    After the above paragraph add a new model association table with caption
    "DataObjectReference" with one row:

    • dataObjectRef : DataObject
      The DataObject referenced by the DataObjectRef.
      In Section 10.3.1 (Data Modeling), Lifecycle and Visibility subsection,
      second paragraph, at the end of the last sentence, add ", including Data
      Object References referencing the Data Object."
      Disposition: Resolved
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Correlation on message flow and choreography activities

  • Key: BPMN2-263
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15069
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Should be able to specify correlation directly on message flow and
    choreography activities, without the overhead of conversations.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Choreography activities are a way of grouping message flow and should
    have correlation like other message flow grouping constructs. Message
    flows themselves do not need correlation, because correlation only works
    if the same key values are in more than one message flow, as identified
    by message flow grouping constructs.
    Remove Subsection 12.3.3 (Correlations) and the sentence in it.
    In Figure 12.6 (The metamodel segment for a Choreography Activity) add
    the CorrelationKey metaclass with a unidirectional association to it
    from ChoreographyActivity. This association has multiplicity 0..1 on
    the ChoreographyActivity end and * on the CorrelationKey end. The
    association end on the CorrelationKey end is named correlationKeys, which
    has composite aggregation (the black diamond appears on the opposite
    end).
    In Table 12.2 (Choreography Activity Model Associations) add a row at
    the end:

    • correlationKeys : CorrelationKey [0..*]
      This association specifies correlationKeys used by the message flow
      in the choreography activity, including subchoreographies and called
      choreographies.
      In Table 12.11 (ChoreographyActivity XML schema), after the
      participantRef element attribute, insert on a new line:
      <xsd:element ref="correlationKeys" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      Disposition: Resolved
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Label call conversation links

  • Key: BPMN2-262
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15068
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Filed for soaML: Links from call conversations should be labelled with
    participant names of the called conversation, as identified by nonvisual
    participant associations

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This resolution assumes the resolution of 14654.
    Replace the paragraph at the end of Section 11.7 (Communication Link),
    the one beginning "There is not a specific BPMN metamodel", with the
    following:
    Conversation links for call conversations show the names of
    participants in nested collaborations or global conversations, as
    identified by participant associations. For example, Figure XXX has a
    collaboration on the left with a call conversation to a collaboration
    on the right. The conversation links on the left indicate which
    participants in the called collaboration on the right correspond to
    which participants in the calling collaboration on the left. For
    example, the Credit Agency participant on the right corresponds to the
    Financial Company participant on the left. Participant associations
    (not shown) tie each participant in the collaboration on the left to a
    participant in the collaboration on the right. They can be used to
    show the names of participants in nested collaborations or global
    conversations.
    After above text, insert a figure with caption "Call Conversation
    Links", and contents per the attached document:
    callconversation-532-v2.ppt.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

LaneSet should have an optional ‘name’ attribute

  • Key: BPMN2-257
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15061
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    Since a LaneSet represents a “a different way” of slicing up a process (e.g. by role or by department) then it should have a name, not just a (potentially unreadable) id to represent that way. Allowing different diagrams for the same Process to be distinguished.

    There should be also a notation to allow for this: for example <Process Name>: <LaneSet Name>

    So for example Figure 10.121 would have Supplier: By Department

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Make the following changes to the MM (version Beta 1)

    • Add attribute "name" of type "String" to class "LaneSet"
      Make the following changes to the XSD (version Beta 1)
    • Change
      <xsd:complexType name="tLaneSet">
      <xsd:complexContent>
      <xsd:extension base="tBaseElement">
      <xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:element ref="lane" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      </xsd:sequence>
      </xsd:extension>
      </xsd:complexContent>
      </xsd:complexType>
      to
      <xsd:complexType name="tLaneSet">
      <xsd:complexContent>
      <xsd:extension base="tBaseElement">
      <xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:element ref="lane" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      </xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string"/>
      </xsd:extension>
      </xsd:complexContent>
      </xsd:complexType>
      Make the following changes to the specification text:
    • Insert a new row at the top of table 10.127 (LaneSet attributes and model associations) with the following content:
      Column "Attribute Name":
      name: string
      Column "Description/Usage":
      The name of the LaneSet. A LaneSet is not visually displayed on a BPMN diagram. Consequently, the name of the LaneSet is not displayed as well.
      Disposition: Resolved
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Simplify Use of Callable Elements

  • Key: BPMN2-256
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15060
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Callable elements can be simplified. For example, a Global Choreography Task can be a sub-type of Choreography. It would be defined as an "empty" Choreography. A Global Task could be a sub-type of Process, with the same restriction.
    By doing this, then calling elements within the diagram can be more specific about what kind of element they can reference. Thus, a CallActivity can reference a Process and a Call Choreography can reference a Choreography, instead of both referencing Callable Elements with an text based restriction as to what kind of callable element can be referenced.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 14654 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

No way to identify the format of Documentation and TextAnnotation connect

  • Key: BPMN2-266
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15083
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    The XSD schema supports mixed-content text within Documentation or Text Annotations. This allows for formatted content (e.g. html tags for bolding or italics).

    The problem occurs when interchanging the XML, since a consumer of the XML has no way of telling what format was used for the text (i.e. to tell that it was html rather than plain text).

    Recommend adding an attribute for a mime-type. Example usages could then be "text/plain" for regular text and "text/html" for html structured text.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    1. Spec tables 8.6 and 8.24: Add an attribute to both
    Name: "textFormat: string"
    Description: This attribute identifies the format of the text. It must follow the mime-type format. The default is "text/plain".
    2. UML metamodel: Update the UML metamodel to add the same attribute to the Documentation and TextAnnotation classes.
    Replace all spec figures that show the Documentation and TextAnnotation classes.
    3. XSD: Add an attribute to the tDocumentation and tTextAnnotation complexTypes
    <xsd:attribute name="textFormat" type="xsd:string" default="text/plain"/>
    Update the XSD snippets in tables 8.17 and 8.29 to match.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Extending via inheritancy is problematic using the BPMN xsd format

  • Key: BPMN2-265
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15082
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Extending via inheritancy is problematic using the BPMN xsd format.

    The presence of the 'any' element on tBaseElement creates issues if you create subclasses that reside in a non-BPMN namespace. You cannot add elements to the subclass without violating the Unique Particle Attribution (UPA) rule in XML Schema (http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PER-xmlschema-1-20040318/structures.html#non-ambig)

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Update tBaseElement and tBaseElementWithMixedContent in the XSD (see Semantic-Snippet.xsd attached to this issue)
    (b) Update the XSD snippets (Table 8.17) in the spec
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

How to represent Process Diagrams and Lanes?

  • Key: BPMN2-259
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15063
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    Taking Figure 10.121 as an example, it’s unclear what the outer box represents in the diagram – is it a graphical Pool representing a Participant named Supplier linked to a PartnerEntityRole also named ‘Supplier’ in turn linked to a Process also called Supplier? Or is it merely a Process called Supplier (in which case it could be better named ‘Supply Process’)? I would have thought the latter, but that does not tie in with my reading of 13.2.3 which states that “A Lane is a sub-partition with a Pool” and “A Pool is the graphical representation of a Participant in a Collaboration (see page 146). It is also acts as a graphical container for partitioning a set of Activities from other Pools, usually in the context of B2B situations.” Likewise Figure 13.4 provides only one interpretation – as Lanes within a Pool not within a Process.

    Though Table 13.1 states that a Process Diagram has at least one LaneCompartment (which is inconsistent with 13.2.3 which states that Lanes are only within Pools) this is inconsistent with the serialization (in Table 10.19) of Figure 10.23 which has no instance of Lane at all. And Figure 10.23 appears to use the Pool notation shown in Figure 13.3

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close; No Change. The FTF decided that the issue report does not identify a problem with the BPMN 2.0 specification
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Figure 10.121 mis-described

  • Key: BPMN2-258
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15062
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    The text beneath it states that it shows “the Lane class diagram”: it’s not a class diagram at all but a Process Diagram

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In beta version 09-08-14,

    • Figure 10.121 title is "An Example of Nested Lanes" and it describes a process diagram with lanes.
    • Figure 10.122 title is " The Lane class diagram" and it describes the UML Class Diagram for Lane and LaneSet
      Disposition: Closed, No Change
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

CorrelationKey should be a concrete element

  • Key: BPMN2-254
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15058
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The CorrelationKey element is currently an abstract element in the metamodel. Since it has no concrete sub-classes, it should made a concrete class

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Update Figure 8.18, page 66 (96 pdf) to show that CorrelationKey is a concrete class
    (b) Update XSD schema to reflect the above change
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Required definitions to invoke an existing function by means of a service task

  • Key: BPMN2-253
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15055
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: University of Stuttgart - ISW ( Frank Leymann)
  • Summary:

    It is not precisely defined what definitions must be made in order to specify that a particular executable is to be invoked as an implementation of an operation of a service task (for example).

    The specification should clearly spell out which definition are mandatory in order to capture the major scenarios, e.g. using an operation of WSDL port; using a java class;...

    I submitted a document with more details on the problem area to issues@omg.org, without any response since weeks. I am happy to send this document to the person assigned to this issue, and discuss it.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:
    • To "Table 8.80 - Interface attributes and model associations", add the following row:
      implementationRef: Element[0..1] This attribute allows to reference a concrete artifact in the underlying implementation technology representing that interface, such as
      a WSDL porttype.
    • To "Table 8.81 - Operation attributes and model associations", add the following row:
      implementationRef: Element[0..1] This attribute allows to reference a concrete artifact in the underlying implementation technology representing that operation, such as
      a WSDL operation.
    • Update the UML meta-model and XSD schema accordingly.
      Disposition: Resolved
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Add Attribute Table for Global Task

  • Key: BPMN2-268
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15086
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    A Global Task has a performers attribute. This should be listed in a table in Section 10.2.7

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of this issue is included as part of 14732
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Incorrect attribute name used for Start Event definition

  • Key: BPMN2-267
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15085
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Bullet items for Start Event Message Flow Connections refers to the "Trigger" attribute of the Start Event. The name of this attribute was changed to "eventDefinitionRefs."
    These items, and other similar uses of the word Trigger, should be corrected.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The statements of those bullets is actually wrong, the trigger attribute do not have a value of "Message" or "Multiple", they are EventDefinition elements. Also they do
    not add any value since the connection rules are properly described in Section 7.5.2 Mesage Flow Connection Rules
    So the proposed fix is to remove these 2 bullets:
    • The Trigger attribute of the Start Event MUST be set to Message or Multiple if there are any incoming Message Flow.
    • The Trigger attribute of the Start Event MUST be set to Multiple if there are more than one incoming Message Flow.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Contradictory/redundant handing of data and subprocesses

  • Key: BPMN2-269
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15087
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Consider a process with a Data Object and a Subprocess. The subprocess has an activity. Can you draw a data association from the data object (in the process) directly to the activity (in the subprocess).

    • The introduction of Data Inputs/Outputs for subprocesses implies you should always go through the Data Inputs/Outputs. That is, you must draw the data association from the Data Object to the subprocess Data Input, and then draw another data association from the subprocess Data Input to the Activity inside the subprocess.
    • But then page 216 states that the data object is 'visible' to the subprocess and the activity inside the subprocess, which implies the activity can access it directly without necessarily going through the subprocess data input.

    So, two different means of doing the same thing, with likely different tools assuming/supporting one or the other or both.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue has the same resolution as OMG 14817 (14817)
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

DataInputs, DataOuputs, and DataStores should be FlowElements

  • Key: BPMN2-255
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15059
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Data Object is a Flow Element because it can apppear in a Flow Element Container (e.g., a Process). Data Inputs, Data Outputs, and Data Stores should also be Flow Elements for the same reason.
    These elements would not need there own name attribute in this case.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close, no Change. The FTF decided that the reported issue does not identify a problem with BPMN 2.0
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Missing definition of the participant Buyer

  • Key: BPMN2-291
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15163
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Camunda Services GmbH ( Gerardo Navarro Suarez)
  • Summary:

    Table 10.19, the XML serialization of the Buyer process in figure 10.23 (pg. 150) is shown. The process model in figure 10.23 shows a Pool named Buyer. The metamodell provides the possibility to define pools as participants, which have a reference to the process definition. But Table 10.19 doesn’t contain any definition of a participant.

    ---Proposal--------------- 04/07/2010 -------------------------
    ##Proposed Resolution: Fixed

    (a) Update Table 10.19 by replacing the XML with the following XML,which adds a collaboration with a participant and a laneSet. The collaboration represents the pool Buyer in figure 10.23 (pg. 150).

    <definitions id="Definition"
    targetNamespace="http://www.example.org/UserTaskExample"
    typeLanguage="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    expressionLanguage="http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath"
    xmlns="http://schema.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0"
    xmlns:tns="http://www.example.org/UserTaskExample">

    <resource id="regionalManager" name="Regional Manager">
    <resourceParameter id="buyerName" isRequired="true" name="Buyer Name" type="xsd:string"/>
    <resourceParameter id="region" isRequired="false" name="Region" type="xsd:string"/>
    </resource>

    <resource id="departmentalReviewer" name="Departmental Reviewer">
    <resourceParameter id="buyerName" isRequired="true" name="Buyer Name" type="xsd:string"/>
    </resource>

    <collaboration id="BuyerCollaboration" name="Buyer Collaboration">
    <participant id="BuyerParticipant" name="Buyer" processRef="BuyerProcess"/>
    </collaboration>

    <!-- Process definition -->
    <process id="BuyerProcess" name="Buyer Process">

    <laneSet id="BuyerLaneSet">
    <lane id="ByerLane">
    <flowElementRef>StartProcess</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>QuotationHandling</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>ApproveOrder</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>OrderApprovedDecision</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>TerminateProcess</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>OrderAndShipment</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>OrderHandling</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>ShipmentHandling</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>OrderAndShipmentMerge</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>ReviewOrder</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>EndProcess</flowElementRef>
    </lane>
    </laneSet>

    <startEvent id="StartProcess"/>

    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="StartProcess" targetRef="QuotationHandling"/>

    <task id="QuotationHandling" name="Quotation Handling"/>

    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="QuotationHandling" targetRef="ApproveOrder"/>

    <userTask id="ApproveOrder" name="ApproveOrder">
    <potentialOwner resourceRef="tns:regionalManager">
    <resourceParameterBinding parameterRef="tns:buyerName">
    <formalExpression>getDataInput('order')/address/name</formalExpression>
    </resourceParameterBinding>
    <resourceParameterBinding parameterRef="tns:region">
    <formalExpression>getDataInput('order')/address/country</formalExpression>
    </resourceParameterBinding>
    </potentialOwner>
    </userTask>

    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="ApproveOrder" targetRef="OrderApprovedDecision"/>

    <exclusiveGateway id="OrderApprovedDecision" gatewayDirection="diverging"/>

    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="OrderApprovedDecision" targetRef="OrderAndShipment">
    <conditionExpression>Was the Order Approved?</conditionExpression>
    </sequenceFlow>

    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="OrderApprovedDecision" targetRef="TerminateProcess">
    <conditionExpression>Was the Order NOT Approved?</conditionExpression>
    </sequenceFlow>

    <endEvent id="TerminateProcess">
    <terminateEventDefinition id="TerminateEvent"/>
    </endEvent>

    <parallelGateway id="OrderAndShipment" gatewayDirection="diverging"/>

    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="OrderAndShipment" targetRef="OrderHandling"/>

    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="OrderAndShipment" targetRef="ShipmentHandling"/>

    <task id="OrderHandling" name="Order Handling"/>

    <task id="ShipmentHandling" name="Shipment Handling"/>

    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="OrderHandling" targetRef="OrderAndShipmentMerge"/>

    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="ShipmentHandling" targetRef="OrderAndShipmentMerge"/>

    <parallelGateway id="OrderAndShipmentMerge" gatewayDirection="converging"/>

    <sequenceFlow targetRef="OrderAndShipmentMerge" sourceRef="ReviewOrder"/>

    <userTask id="ReviewOrder" name="Review Order">
    <potentialOwner resourceRef="tns:departmentalReviewer">
    <resourceParameterBinding parameterRef="tns:buyerName">
    <formalExpression>getDataInput('order')/address/name</formalExpression>
    </resourceParameterBinding>
    </potentialOwner>
    </userTask>

    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="ReviewOrder" targetRef="EndProcess"/>

    <endEvent id="EndProcess"/>
    </process>
    </definitions>

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 7 Apr 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Update Table 10.19 by replacing the XML with the following
    XML,which adds a collaboration with a participant and a laneSet. The
    collaboration represents the pool Buyer in figure 10.23 (pg. 150).
    <definitions id="Definition"
    targetNamespace="http://www.example.org/UserTaskExample"
    typeLanguage="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    expressionLanguage="http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath"
    xmlns="http://schema.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0"
    xmlns:tns="http://www.example.org/UserTaskExample">
    <resource id="regionalManager" name="Regional Manager">
    <resourceParameter id="buyerName" isRequired="true" name="Buyer Name" type="xsd:string"/>
    <resourceParameter id="region" isRequired="false" name="Region" type="xsd:string"/>
    </resource>
    <resource id="departmentalReviewer" name="Departmental Reviewer">
    <resourceParameter id="buyerName" isRequired="true" name="Buyer Name" type="xsd:string"/>
    </resource>
    <collaboration id="BuyerCollaboration" name="Buyer Collaboration">
    <participant id="BuyerParticipant" name="Buyer" processRef="BuyerProcess"/>
    </collaboration>
    <!-- Process definition -->
    <process id="BuyerProcess" name="Buyer Process">
    <laneSet id="BuyerLaneSet">
    <lane id="ByerLane">
    <flowElementRef>StartProcess</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>QuotationHandling</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>ApproveOrder</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>OrderApprovedDecision</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>TerminateProcess</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>OrderAndShipment</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>OrderHandling</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>ShipmentHandling</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>OrderAndShipmentMerge</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>ReviewOrder</flowElementRef>
    <flowElementRef>EndProcess</flowElementRef>
    </lane>
    </laneSet>
    <startEvent id="StartProcess"/>
    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="StartProcess" targetRef="QuotationHandling"/>
    <task id="QuotationHandling" name="Quotation Handling"/>
    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="QuotationHandling" targetRef="ApproveOrder"/>
    <userTask id="ApproveOrder" name="ApproveOrder">
    <potentialOwner resourceRef="tns:regionalManager">
    <resourceParameterBinding parameterRef="tns:buyerName">
    <formalExpression>getDataInput('order')/address/name</formalExpression>
    </resourceParameterBinding>
    <resourceParameterBinding parameterRef="tns:region">
    <formalExpression>getDataInput('order')/address/country</formalExpression>
    </resourceParameterBinding>
    </potentialOwner>
    </userTask>
    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="ApproveOrder" targetRef="OrderApprovedDecision"/>
    <exclusiveGateway id="OrderApprovedDecision" gatewayDirection="diverging"/>
    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="OrderApprovedDecision" targetRef="OrderAndShipment">
    <conditionExpression>Was the Order Approved?</conditionExpression>
    </sequenceFlow>
    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="OrderApprovedDecision" targetRef="TerminateProcess">
    <conditionExpression>Was the Order NOT Approved?</conditionExpression>
    </sequenceFlow>
    <endEvent id="TerminateProcess">
    <terminateEventDefinition id="TerminateEvent"/>
    </endEvent>
    <parallelGateway id="OrderAndShipment" gatewayDirection="diverging"/>
    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="OrderAndShipment" targetRef="OrderHandling"/>
    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="OrderAndShipment" targetRef="ShipmentHandling"/>
    <task id="OrderHandling" name="Order Handling"/>
    <task id="ShipmentHandling" name="Shipment Handling"/>
    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="OrderHandling" targetRef="OrderAndShipmentMerge"/>
    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="ShipmentHandling" targetRef="OrderAndShipmentMerge"/>
    <parallelGateway id="OrderAndShipmentMerge" gatewayDirection="converging"/>
    <sequenceFlow targetRef="OrderAndShipmentMerge" sourceRef="ReviewOrder"/>
    <userTask id="ReviewOrder" name="Review Order">
    <potentialOwner resourceRef="tns:departmentalReviewer">
    <resourceParameterBinding parameterRef="tns:buyerName">
    <formalExpression>getDataInput('order')/address/name</formalExpression>
    </resourceParameterBinding>
    </potentialOwner>
    </userTask>
    <sequenceFlow sourceRef="ReviewOrder" targetRef="EndProcess"/>
    <endEvent id="EndProcess"/>
    </process>
    </definitions>
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Exporter Information Required for BPMN 2 files

  • Key: BPMN2-290
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15161
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    There is a requirement for the “Exporter” of a BPMN 2 file to be identified. Such identification will allow an importing tool to take various appropriate actions to ensure ease of exchange and interchange of BPMN 2 files (for both semantic and diagrams).

    There is substantial practical evidence of the benefits of such information. In fact XMI provides support for such information. You can refer to MOF 2.0/XMI Mapping Specification, v2.1.1, section 4.5.2 and section 4.5. in the XMI spec for description of the <documentation> class, which is part of the XMI model. It contains the nested element <exporter>, and <exporterVersion> which serves this purpose.

    The intention is that any model that is an instance of MOF and serialized in XMI is able to include an instance of <documentation> nested in the root. As the example given by Pete shows:

    More specifically there is the following in the XMI spec :

    <xsd:complexType name="Documentation">

    …

    <xsd:element name="exporter" type="xsd:string"/>

    <xsd:element name="exporterVersion" type="xsd:string"/>

    For example:

    <xmi:XMI>

    <documentation xmi:type=xmi:Documentation>

    <exporter>MagicDraw UML</exporter>

    <exporterVersion>16.8 Beta</exporterVersion>

    </documentation>

    …

    This would require changes to section 8.1 and 8.1.3 of the BPMN 2 spec

    Proposal:

    Add to the tDefinitions xsd complexType:

    <xsd:attribute name="exporter" type="xsd:string" />

    <xsd:attribute name="exporterVersion" type="xsd:string"/>

    This will give two new optional properties (exporter and exporterVersion).

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 6 Apr 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Add to the tDefinitions xsd complexType:
    "<xsd:attribute name="exporter" type="xsd:string" />
    <xsd:attribute name="exporterVersion" type="xsd:string"/>"
    (b) Update Figure 8.4, Figure 8.5, and Figure 8.6 to reflect this change
    (c) Update Table 8.1 and Table 8.3 to include these attributes
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Inclusive Gateway Semantics

  • Key: BPMN2-289
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15155
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Mr. Hagen Voelzer)
  • Summary:

    In the current semantics description of the inclusive gateway:

    The Inclusive Gateway is activated if
    • At least one incoming sequence flow has at least one Token and
    • for each empty incoming sequence flow, there is no Token in the
    graph anywhere upstream of this sequence flow, i.e., there is no
    directed path (formed by Sequence Flow) from a Token to this
    sequence flow unless

    • the path visits the inclusive gateway or
    • the path visits a node that has a directed path to a non-empty
      incoming sequence flow of the inclusive gateway.

    it does not get clear that the latter path is also not allowed to visit the inclusive gateway.

    I suggest to reword the entire sentence.

    The same applies to the semantics of the complex gateway.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Table 14.3, first row, second column: replace the contents of the column with the following:
    "The Inclusive Gateway is activated if
    1. At least one incoming sequence flow of the inclusive gateway has at least one Token and
    2. for every directed path formed by sequence flow that
    i. starts with a sequence flow f of the diagram that has a Token,
    ii. ends with an incoming sequence flow of the inclusive gateway that has no Token, and
    iii. does not visit the inclusive gateway,
    there is also a directed path formed by sequence flow that
    iv. starts with f,
    v. ends with an incoming sequence flow of the inclusive gateway that has a Token, and
    vi. does not visit the inclusive gateway.
    If the inclusive gateway is contained in a sub-process, then no paths are considered that cross the boundary of that sub-process.
    Upon execution, a Token is consumed from each incoming sequence flow that has a Token. A Token will be produced on some of the outgoing sequence flows.
    In order to determine the outgoing sequence flows that receive a Token, all conditions on the outgoing sequence flows are evaluated. The evaluation does not have to
    respect a certain order.
    For every condition, which evaluates to true, a Token must be passed on the respective sequence flow.
    If and only if none of the conditions evaluates to true, the Token is passed on the default sequence flow.
    In case all conditions evaluate to false and a default flow has not been specified, the inclusive gateway throws an exception."
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Missing Message Flow

  • Key: BPMN2-288
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15154
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Camunda Services GmbH ( Gerardo Navarro Suarez)
  • Summary:

    The last table record on page 27 (57) misses a picture of a message flow.

    The record "Nested/Embedded Sub-Process (Inline Block)" on page 32 (62) shows a message flow, which does't belong there. It might be the message flow missed on page 27 (57).

    ---Proposal------ 03/26/2010 --------------
    ##Proposed Resolution: Fixed

    (a) Update the table record "Message Flow" in Table 7.2, inserting a figure of a message flow.
    Update table record Table 7.2 page 27 (57)

    (b) Update the table record "Nested/Embedded Sub-Process (Inline Block)" in Table 7.2, deleting the figure of the message flow. Update table record Table 7.2 page 32 (62)

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Update the table record "Message Flow" in Table 7.2, inserting a figure of a message flow. Update table record Table 7.2 page 27 (57)
    (b) Update the table record "Nested/Embedded Sub-Process (Inline Block)" in Table 7.2, deleting the figure of the message flow. Update table record Table 7.2 page
    32 (62)
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Choreography is not enforcable

  • Key: BPMN2-287
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15152
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Camunda Services GmbH ( Gerardo Navarro Suarez)
  • Summary:

    Figure 12.4; The Choreography model is not locally enforcable.

    In the last interaction the Supplier doesn't participate in the previous interaction.

    But in chapter 12.4.6 on page 328 (358) it is said: "The Initiator of a Choreography Activity MUST have been involved (as Initiator or Receiver) in the
    previous Choreography Activity."

    The lane in the middle of the Collaboration model (Figure 12.3 page 311 (341)) has a wrong name. It should be Supplier not Shipper.

    ---Proposal------ 03/25/2010 --------------
    ##Proposed Resolution: Fixed

    (a) Update the Collaboration model, renaming the name of the lane in the middle of the model into "Supplier".
    Figure 12.3 page 311 (341)

    (b) Update the Choreography, changing the order of the last interactions. Put the fourth from last interaction "Accept PO and
    Delivery Schedule" right behind the last interaction "Finalized PO and Delivery Schedule".
    Figure 12.4 page 312 (342)

    (c) Update the Collaboration model, changing the position of the interaction between the Retailer and the Supplier about the message "PO & Delivery Schedule". Put the Send Message Task in the lane "Retailer" right behind the last Recieve Message Task in that lane.
    Figure 12.3 page 311 (341)

    (d) Update the last sentence in the paragraph under the Collaboration model. Exchange the 2 words "Retailer" and "Supplier". The sentence should look like this: "´accordingly, the
    Retailer interacts with the Consignee and Supplier for final confirmations."

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Update the Collaboration model, renaming the name of the lane in the middle of the model into "Supplier". Figure 12.3 page 311 (341)
    (b) Update the Choreography, changing the order of the last interactions. Put the fourth from last interaction "Accept PO and Delivery Schedule" right behind the last
    interaction "Finalized PO and Delivery Schedule". Figure 12.4 page 312 (342)
    (c) Update the Collaboration model, changing the position of the interaction between the Retailer and the Supplier about the message "PO & Delivery Schedule". Put
    the Send Message Task in the lane "Retailer" right behind the last Recieve Message Task in that lane. Figure 12.3 page 311 (341)
    (d) Update the last sentence in the paragraph under the Collaboration model. Exchange the 2 words "Retailer" and "Supplier". The sentence should look like this:
    "´accordingly, the Retailer interacts with the Consignee and Supplier for final confirmations."
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

The Two Multi-Instance Markers should be reversed

  • Key: BPMN2-294
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15169
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The two versions of the Multi-Instance loop marker should be reversed. The three horizontal lines looks more like parallism and the three vertical lines look more like sequentialism.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 9 Apr 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Reason: Changing the icon for multi-instance activities now will cause a lot of confusions. It will be difficult to ensure that the whole document stays in a consistent state.
    There are also already publications out on the market that use the current notation.
    Even for BPMN 1.x there are examples that use the current "vertical" notation for parallel, e.g. see Steves
    http://www.bpmn.org/Documents/Notations_and_Workflow_Patterns.pdf , Figure 30. So, there would be some kind of incompatibility introduced.
    Which orientation is better to understand for parallel and sequential depends mainly on taste on which axis one assumes time. If you model vertically top to bottom, the
    current notation is good. This is similar like writing a text, or also similar to UML activity and sequence diagrams. Only for the case that you model left-to-right the other
    proposal might make little more sense.
    Conclusion: Changing the meaning now has much higher risk than advantages.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

A Collaboration should be able to reference more than one Choreography

  • Key: BPMN2-293
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15168
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    To support SoaML modeling a Collaboration will need to be able to reference more than one Choreographies. These Choreographies would then be associated with the Conversations of the Collaboration.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 8 Apr 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 9, Collaboration
    Change the multiplicity of Collaboration's choreographyRef model association from 0..1 to 0..*
    (a) Update Figure 9.1 to reflect this change
    Table 9.1, second row:
    (b) First column: Change "[0..1]" to "[0..*]"
    (c) Second column: change the first sentence to "The choreographyRef model association defines the Choreographies that can be shown between the Pools of the
    Collaboration."
    (d) Table 9.2, Collaboration XML Schema: change:
    "<xsd:attribute name="choreographyRef" type="xsd:QName" use="optional"/>"
    To
    "<xsd:element ref="choreographyRef " minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>"
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Conversation lanes

  • Key: BPMN2-292
  • Legacy Issue Number: 15165
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Mr. Jim Amsden)
  • Summary:

    Lanes representing conversations should require activities in those
    lanes to send or receive message flows in the conversation.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 8 Apr 2010 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution assumes the resolution of 14654.
    In the Collaborations chapter, Conversations section, at the end of the
    Conversation Link subsection, add the paragraph
    When a lane represents a conversation, the flow elements in the lane
    (or elements nested or called in them) that send or receive messages
    must do so as part of the conversation represented by the lane.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Reference Subprocess

  • Key: BPMN-30
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9564
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    Reference Subprocess defines Input/OutputPropertyMaps attributes to
    define actual parameters, while there is no clean way to define formal
    parameters of the process.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Time intervals modeling is imprecise

  • Key: BPMN-29
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9562
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    Time intervals modeling is imprecise. Specification lists related
    field as TimeDate:Date and TimeCycle:String. In fact, modelers typically
    need to specify time interval since some event (e.g. starting the
    enclosing process). Enumerated cycle values (daily/weekly/monthly) or
    cycle interval and number of cycles would also be handy. Consider the
    way Outlook calendars handles regular meeting appointments. It would be
    nice to model advance reminder as separate entity (timer event occurring
    before another scheduled event).

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

SubProcessRef

  • Key: BPMN-35
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9907
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    The attribute "SubProcessRef" is of type Task (see page 82). Shouldn't it
    be of type "SubProcess"?

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Fri, 7 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section 6 of the current specification should be moved as an appendix

  • Key: BPMN-5
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9139
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: MEGA International ( Mr. Antoine Lonjon)
  • Summary:

    BPMN1. Section 6 of the current specification should be moved as an appendix
    2. All attributes related to the BPEL mapping should be removed

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Wed, 1 Mar 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    see below

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPMN comment

  • Key: BPMN-4
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9121
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    BPMNOne point that need more precision in the BPMN specification is Inclusive Gateways behavior.
    The rule "When the Inclusive Gateway is used as a Merge, it will wait for (synchronize) all Tokens that have been produced upstream" is not clear at all.
    It can be applied in very simple situations (when a token is divided in several tokens when going out of an Inclusive Gateway, and merge at another Inclusive Gateway for example), but as no sense in more complex cases. As BPMN is very flexible and allows modeling of business processes that are not "block-structured" as opposed to BPEL, a more precise rule is needed for Inclusive Gateways.
    A discussion was opened by Petko Chobantonov on BPMN forum about this problem. He proposed another rule to clarify the Inclusive Gateway behavior but that led to nothing.

    Here is another comment:

    In the last version of the BPMN specification (Version 1.1 - July 31, 2005), a new rule was added on gateways (p 88):

    "If two or more Signals (Tokens) arrive to their respective Gates at the exact same time, then the Signal..."

    "exact same time" does not mean anything, and a rule like this has nothing to do in a "Notation" specification.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Sec. 6.16

  • Key: BPMN-3
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9116
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: National TeleConsultants ( Ugo Corda)
  • Summary:

    Sec. 6.16 states that "The Type attribute of the Property will map to the type attribute of the part". This seems to imply that WSDL parts are always defined with a type attribute, which is not the case (i.e. they can also be defined with an element attribute instead of a type attribute).

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Mapping to BPEL should be moved to the appendix

  • Key: BPMN-6
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9240
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Agile Enterprise Design ( Mr. Fred A. Cummins)
  • Summary:

    Since BPMN is considered to provide a business-level representation of processes (i.e., a PIM), it is appropriate that the mapping to BPEL be moved to the appendix. In addition, the BPEL mapping should not be defined as a normative part of the specification since BPEL is viewed as a platform/execution language. In other words, the transformation could be different depending on the particular implementation of BPEL. A normative mapping to WSDL and choreography (which might be expressed in BPEL) is needed, but should be a mapping from a normative BPMN metamodel rather than the graphical notation.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Business Process Diagrams

  • Key: BPMN-1
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9113
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: IBM ( Hossam Badawi)
  • Summary:

    I've been checking the BPMN for the connections, My question/comment is that why the spcification didn't introduce a type of connections that compines both Message and Flow (A connection that does both functions at the same time, it models the sequence and also models that data/message is being passed from the source object to the target object). Without having that type of a connection a diagram will contain many objects connected by two connections (one for the sequence and the other for the message) which leads to complexity in the diagram layout.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPMN comment: additional artifacts

  • Key: BPMN-2
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9115
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: National TeleConsultants ( Ugo Corda)
  • Summary:

    The spec should specify which additional artifacts (e.g. WSDL files) are required to successfully generate BPEL processes.

    For example, sec. 6.16, Message mapping, refers to the "type attribute of the part". In case the type is a complex one, it looks like a WSDL file would be required in order to have the complete type description for BPEL generation purposes, but that is not mentioned in the spec.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

restriction to be placed on the number of tokens

  • Key: BPMN-24
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9378
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: me.com ( Frank McCabe)
  • Summary:

    I believe that there should be a restriction placed on the number of tokens that may be present on a given wire. If a situation arises where there are several tokens on a given wire coming into a merge gateway then there is a correlation problem between the multiple incoming tokens on one wire and tokens arriving on other wires. Such correlation becomes a serious business problem when documents are associated with token flows. E.g. if there are two tokens on one wire and two tokens on another wire then there are two different ways of correlating the merging tokens. Proposed resolution: restrict the number of tokens on a given wire in a single instance of a process to zero or one.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

optional description attribute

  • Key: BPMN-23
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9377
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: me.com ( Frank McCabe)
  • Summary:

    Every element in a diagram should have an optional description attribute. This is in addition to the name and properties' attributes. One issue to decide is whether a description attribute should have structure - whether it refers to a machine-processable description or a human oriented description. Essentially both are important

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPMN Adopted Spec issue - Clarify behavior of Error intermediate event

  • Key: BPMN-22
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9367
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: iGrafx ( Rob Bartel)
  • Summary:

    I feel that the definition of the behavior of the Error intermediate Event is unclear in the BPMN Adopted Specification. We implemented its behavior to closely model the <throw>/<catch> in BPEL, but upon discussion with one of our customers and then with Steve it appears that our interpretation of the spec is not what was intended by its authors.

    Error intermediate Events are discussed with any detail in the following places in the spec:

    --------------------------

    Table 9.6 (p. 41) describes the End event and says - "This type of End indicates that a named Error should be generated. This Error will be caught by an Intermediate Event within the Event Context."

    Table 9.8 (p. 45) describes the Error intermediate event - "This is used for error handling--both to set (throw) and to react to (catch) errors. It sets (throws) an error if the Event is part of a Normal Flow. It reacts to (catches) a named error, or to any error if a name is not specified, when attached to the boundary of an activity."

    Table 9.9 (p. 46, 47) has Error intermediate event attributes described. The behavior described there relates to the ErrorCode.

    Text on p 59-60 describes its role in modeling a Hazard in a Business Transaction.

    Text on p 76 mentions it can be a target of an Event-based Gateway, although on p. 78 under "Changes since the 1.0 draft version" it says that Error was removed as a possible target. I believe the text on p

    76 is an editing error.

    Text on page 130-131 describes the "Event Context", mentioned in table 9.6. Text on that page in the last paragraph explicitly compares Error to the BPEL4WS fault, and goes on in that paragraph to describe the role of the ErrorCode.

    Table 11.5 (p. 141) mentions that Error end events map to BPEL throw elements, again tying it to the notion of faults.

    Table 11.10 (p. 145) describes the mapping to BPEL for intermediate Error event, which proposes that a boundary event be mapped to a <catch> within a <scope> that encompasses the activity.

    ------------------------

    From this somewhat limited description, we chose to implement Error as a strictly hierarchical faulting mechanism, as it is in BPEL as well as most programming languages, and which seems a direct consequence of the mapping in Table 11.10. However, in subsequent discussion I have learned it was the intention of the authors that Errors be "subscribed" to in a global scope, and that they will be responded to from any activie location in the process, but that the highest "parent" activity in a subprocess hierarchy will supersede (and terminate) any lower-level Error intermediate events. (This is my interpretation of an email thread with Steve on this subject that is not crisp enough to include verbatim in this issue. I may have interpreted it wrongly, however.)

    If the intention of BPMN is to allow Error to be used as a parallel- thread signaling mechanism (supporting a "first one done wins" pattern, for example) as well as a hierarchical faulting mechanism (where the scope in which a thrown Error can be caught is limited to the hierarchy of parents of the activity that causes it, including the activity itself) then the behavior of a number of ambiguous topologies need to be clarified in the spec. Also, I believe the mapping to BPEL is incorrect for the signaling use, and that for some configurations a correct mapping may not exist.

    In any event, clarifying the scope of the Event Context with respect to the behavior of the Error event seems necessary.

    -------------------------

    My proposed resolution will be for the text to make it clear that Error can only be caught by the activity that causes it or one of its parents. There are several other alternatives to use for signaling between parallel sequence flows, including our suggestion to our customers that the Rule event be used.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section: 4.6

  • Key: BPMN-21
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9361
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: CA Technologies ( Donna Burbank)
  • Summary:

    The spec mandates that "if there is only one lane, then that lane shares the name of the POOL, and only the POOL name is displayed. If there is more than one lane, then each lane has to have its own name and all names are displayed". Request is to remove the requirement making lane name dependent upon pool name. Suggested text "If there is only one lane, only the pool name is displayed. If there is more than one lane, the name of the individual lanes must be displayed as well as the name of the pool." With this change, if there is only one lane, the lane name is not shown, but the user is free to rename the name of the lane, if desired.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Is it really the Complete Set?

  • Key: BPMN-20
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9356
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    Details:
    Section 8.2 is entitled "BPD Complete Set", and Table 8.3 is "BPD Complete Element Set", but the text says that that what the table displays is just "... a more extensive list" showing what "...could be depicted through a business process modeling notation". If it is really the complete set, it is misleading to describe it in this way. I guess the topic is not what could be depicted with a business process modeling notation, but rather the full extent of what is provided for with the BPMN notation as specified in this document.

    This issue suggest that the provision for extending the notation should not be scattered (as it is now) throughout the document, so that better clarity can be achieved between the notation provided in the spec, and the possiblity of user extensions of that notation. The problem now is that the possiblilty of adding new notations is getting mixed in with the purported presentation of the COMPLETE SET.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 2 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Are there 3 or are there 4 Standard Artifacts?

  • Key: BPMN-19
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9354
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    See page 23, text just preceding table 8.1, adopted spec 06-01-01
    States "There are four standardized Artifacts" but then lists only three, followinng the text: "The current set of Artifacts include..."
    The use of "include" suggests there are more and the list is just some "for instance" examples of standardized artifacts."
    If their are four, please let us know which four they are.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 2 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section 12 of the specification should be moved as is to an appendix

  • Key: BPMN-27
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9411
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Section 12 of the specification should be moved as is to an appendix, based on its focus on mapping to BPEL. In addition, the text from that section that does not deal with BPEL mapping should be copied and placed within the Overview section (Section 7).

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Fri, 3 Mar 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Diagram with an "Invisible Pool"

  • Key: BPMN-26
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9409
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Embarcadero Technologies ( Michelle Vanchu-Orosco)
  • Summary:

    We have a couple of questions relating to the notion of a diagram with an “invisible pool”.

    Per p. 42 “A BPD SHALL contain one or more Pools. The boundary of one of the Pools MAY be invisible (especially if there is only one Pool in the Diagram).”

    How would an “invisibly-bordered” pool be represented in the diagram? Or would this be implicit when creating the diagram?
    Would you be able to add lanes to an “invisibly-bordered” pool? We should propose the user is not able to add lanes to an “invisibly-bordered” pool as it could become a diagram containing pools…

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 2 Mar 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section 4.3.3 Reference to "missing" shape

  • Key: BPMN-28
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9412
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Embarcadero Technologies ( Michelle Vanchu-Orosco)
  • Summary:

    I am not sure what shape the following information is referring to as no reference to a figure and no shape appear to be provided. I am also not certain how this relates to End Events.

    Section 4.3.3. End (p. 52)

    This shape is OPTIONAL: a given Process level—a top-level Process or an expanded Sub-Process—MAY (is not required to) have this shape:

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Wed, 8 Mar 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Clarify why BPMN separates data and sequence

  • Key: BPMN-25
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9408
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Clarify why BPMN separates data and sequence, for example, in Figure 10.11. The proposed resolution to http://www.bpmn.org/FTF/Issues/Issue%209113.htm should respond to this issue, rather than 9113, which is about how to bind sequence and data flow.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 2 Mar 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Ambiguous notations for Association

  • Key: BPMN-13
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9325
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    Table 8.1: does not explain the difference between the 2 depictions of Associations given (one with an arrow)

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

No means to define Categories

  • Key: BPMN-12
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9324
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    Several elements can have Categories attached. This is documented in Table 8-7 as "the Modeler may add one or more defined Categories"...However there is no mechanism for creating the 'defined categories' (as opposed to using them).

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Unclear whether BPEL is part of Conformance

  • Key: BPMN-7
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9319
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    Issue B) Unclear whether BPEL is part of Conformance
    Section 6.2 states "The BPMN specification supports for the following specifications is a normative part of the BPMN specification: BPEL4WS."
    but BPEL is not mentioned in the Conformance section 2

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Attributes not explained with respect to Notation

  • Key: BPMN11-7
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9318
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    Most elements have a section called 'attributes' - but nowhere is it explained how these are related to the Notation being specified. Is it expected that each shape will have a 'property sheet' allowing these attributes to be viewed and edited? The end of Section 7.1.1 states "Thus, the graphic elements of BPMN will be supported by attributes that will supply the additional information required". In many cases though the attributes described include information that is redundant with the diagrammatic representation e.g. Name (in several places including 9.6.1) and ParentPool and ParentLane for Lane in section 9.6.3. In general Appendix B has more of the flavor of a metamodel or an interchange definition than a Notation.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: A requirement of the BPMN 2.0 RFP is to include both notation and a
    metamodel in the specification. Thus, the issue will be resolved with the specification that results
    from the RFP.
    Revised Text: None

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Which is it, (OR-Join) or (XOR) Gateway?

  • Key: BPMN-18
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9353
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Capability Measurement ( Karl Frank)
  • Summary:

    Issue summary: Which is it, (OR-Join) or (XOR) Gateway?

    Note: This issue is closely related to 9327

    Details:
    See page 24, adopted spec 06-01-01
    Table 8.3, BPD Complete Element Set
    row for "Merging (OR-Join)"
    Text tells how to use "A Merging (XOR) Gateway", but the name of the model element is given as "Merging (OR-Join)".
    Then in row "Gateway control types" on page 20 it bives the names as 'XOR' and 'OR' as names of distinct types of control
    It seems to me that the author of the text in the row for "Merging (OR-Join)" was thinking of xor as being a sort of specialization of inclusive or, and so mixed a discussion of the OR and XOR together, but this is inconsistent with defining OR as meaning inclusive or. This needs to be rewritten to be consistent.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 2 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

unclear what Figure 13 on p. 71 represents

  • Key: BPMN-17
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9345
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: CA Technologies ( Donna Burbank)
  • Summary:

    I am unclear what Figure 13 on p. 71 represents. The bottom part of the diagram appears to show multiple pools joined together(Employee, Retail, etc.), showing lanes without labels. Is this a single poole or multiple pools?

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Wed, 1 Feb 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

complicated notation

  • Key: BPMN-16
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9343
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Sometimes It is too complicated notation.
    Can I use standard defacto notation like UML, DSL or others ?
    We have limited time to learn the new one to adapt new notation and give
    training to other parties.
    Maybe you should give more choice for the notation like you can use class
    diagram (in UML of course) with stereotypes with limited features, or you
    can use pure BPMN notation with full feature; or maybe you can use some
    translation or search some equal diagram from BPMN to other diagram
    to make the beginners understand.

    I suggest you create a templates to plug into MS Visio, Rational Rose
    Petal or other CASE tool to make users adapt the notation quickly.
    Perhaps you can build the beta version until the release

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Semantical difference between activity models and BPMN

  • Key: BPMN11-10
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9342
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    I do not see what exactly is the semantical difference between activity
    models and BPMN, besides its syntactic constituents. Secondly, BPMN does
    not address the objects or nouns which activitiy diagrams do. Process
    with objects provide complete meaning, process without objects is
    typeless and thus meaningless.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    The [previous] FTF disagreed with the statement that a process without objects is meaningless.
    The modeling audience that desire/require object-orientation is not the same audience that is the
    target of BPMN. Perhaps Activity Diagrams fit the former audience better, and Activity Diagrams
    are always an option. However, the FTF recognizes that although the audiences may differ greatly,
    the modeling scope of Activity Diagrams and BPMN greatly overlap. At some point, the OMG will
    have to deal with this.
    This is not an issue that can addressed by the BPMN RTF in terms of the BPMN specification version
    1.2.
    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF, but should be addressed by the OMG
    community as a whole.

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Missing examples

  • Key: BPMN11-6
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9312
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: CA Technologies ( Donna Burbank)
  • Summary:

    Can anyone provide an example of how the following items should be formatted visually? I don’t see examples in the BPMN spec: 1. Vertical Pools 2. Nested Lanes

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Unclear what complete syntax is for an Attribute

  • Key: BPMN11-9
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9329
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    6.1.1 should show the complete syntax for an attribute e.g. as BNF.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Sequence Flow is not a Flow Object

  • Key: BPMN11-8
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9328
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    It seems a bit odd that a Sequence Flow is not a Flow Object as its name would appear otherwise: actually the term Flow Object is probably the one that misleads

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.1
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close, No Change: Sequence Flow is listed as a Connecting Object, which should be considered a
    logical categorization. Given that, the use of Flow Objects for those that are connected by
    Sequence Flow also appears logical. However, a surface view of the terms might be somewhat
    confusing. However, there would be a large impact on the specification and general understanding
    of the practitioners of BPMN if the terminology was changed. Thus, this issue is out of scope for the
    RTF and may be addressed by the response to the BPMN 2.0 RFP.

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Ambiguous notations for OR

  • Key: BPMN-15
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9327
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    Why 2 notations for Data based XOR
    Why not data and event options for inclusive OR?

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Unclear semantics of Group

  • Key: BPMN-14
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9326
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    Table 8.1: unclear if a Group groups Activities or objects in general. Can it have a name?

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPEL mapping hard to follow

  • Key: BPMN-11
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9323
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    found the mapping to BPEL somewhat hard to follow. In particular the use of indentation in tables such as 11.4.1 is not clear.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPEL over-pervasive in document

  • Key: BPMN-10
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9322
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    In general I found the BPEL mapping aspect over-pervasive within the document, and not restricted to section 11. The impression could be gained that nothing can be a business process unless it can be represented in BPEL. This will tend to be off-putting to the business users the spec claims to address (I have no objection to the BPEL Mapping section) - it's just the constant references to BPEL to explain process modeling concepts and the BPMN notation. For example in the definition of the concepts in section 7.1.1 of private, public and abstract business process. Again I'm surprised there is no conformance point related to BPEL mapping.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

compliance level to cover core elements/simple business modeling

  • Key: BPMN-9
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9321
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    The start of section 8 has the following which suggests 2 levels of compliance; however this opportunity has been missed in the conformance section: "First, there is the list of core elements that will support the requirement of a simple notation. These are the elements that define the basic look-and-feel of BPMN. Most business processes will be modeled adequately with these elements. Second, there is the entire list of elements, including the core elements, which will help support requirement of a powerful notation to handle more advanced modeling situations."

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Irrelevant conformance point

  • Key: BPMN-8
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9320
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Adaptive ( Mr. Pete Rivett)
  • Summary:

    The Conformance section (2) has 3 points: 3rd of these is somewhat inoperative since it refers to a to-be-defined interchange format.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Definition of "Expression"

  • Key: BPMN-31
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9893
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    The definition of "Expression", as given in section B.11.3, is ambiguous.
    More clarification is needed in the spec.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Role association to subprocesses

  • Key: BPMN-33
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9897
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Currently, roles can only be associated with tasks, via the "performers"
    attribute. However, it is common to associate roles with subprocesses. In
    the case of a subprocess, the meaning is one of responsibility for the
    subprocess rather than who performs the subprocess.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Performers

  • Key: BPMN-32
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9896
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Currently, only User Tasks and Manual Tasks can have performers. Suggest
    this be extended to other types of tasks, that is, allow association of
    performers with any kind of task.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Start Events with triggers on a subprocess

  • Key: BPMN-34
  • Legacy Issue Number: 9905
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    What are the semantics of a Start Event with a Trigger in of a subprocess?
    When will the subprocess be instantiated ... when it's parent process sends
    it a token or when it receives the event trigger?

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Thu, 6 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

INCORRECT/IMCOMPLETE REFERENCES AND DEFINITIONS IN GLOSSARY

  • Key: BPMN2-236
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14880
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Atos Origin ( Lyndon Roy)
  • Summary:

    Glossary in Annex C contains a number of definitions of, and references to, workflow patterns that were incorrect in version 1.0 of the spec and are still incorrect in version 2.0.

    For example, see the following definitions:
    Deferred Choice references workflow pattern #17 ­ actually Deferred Choice is pattern #16;
    Discriminator references workflow pattern #8 ­ actually Discriminator is pattern #9;
    Implicit Termination references workflow pattern #12 ­ actually Implicit Termination is pattern #11

    Also the URL for these workflow patterns has changed (All pages from 'tmitwww.tm.tue.nl' have moved to the server 'is.ieis.tue.nl' - although the latest patterns can actually be found at http://www.workflowpatterns.com/).

    May I suggest that the entire contents of the Glossary are reviewed against the latest set of workpatterns (http://www.workflowpatterns.com/documentation/documents/BPM-06-22.pdf) and ensure that the correct pattern numbers are used. I would also like the glossary to be extended to cover the extra workflow patterns that have been defined beyond van der Aalst's original 20 (or 21 if you include pattern #9a)and that can can be implemented using BPMN notation - (www.workflowpatterns.com/documentation/documents/BPM-06-17.pdf might give useful guidance for this (even though it relates to BPMN v1)).

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 14778 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

parallelMultiple attribute missing from CatchEvent table

  • Key: BPMN2-153
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14705
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    The CatchEvent has a "parallelMultiple" attribute, but it's not listed in the table in the spec. Table 10.75 on page 212 (242 pdf).

    Comments:
    From: wstephe created: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:52:11 -0500 (CDT)
    The Section and page numbers were added to match the Beta 1 spec.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Add a row to Table 10.75 - CatchEvent attributes and model associations
    Attribute Name: parallelMultiple
    Description/Usage:
    This attribute is only relevant when the CatchEvent has more than event definition (Multiple).
    If this value is true, then all of the types of triggers that are listed in the CatchEvent MUST be triggered before the Process is instantiated.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

CorrelationSubscription - Description & use-cases

  • Key: BPMN2-152
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14703
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    The Correlation Subscription concepts in the spec are difficult to follow and understand.

    We need improved explanations in the spec, with descriptions of when and how someone would use this, and the motivations behind it.

    Comments:
    From: wstephe created: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:05:02 -0500 (CDT)
    Yes, Section 8.3.3 (V0.9.14) needs a complete overhaul.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    1. Add the following introductory paragraph motivating the need for correlation:
    Business processes typically may run for days or even months, requiring asynchronous communication via messages. Also, many instances of a particular business
    process will typically run in parallel, e.g., many instances of an order process, each representing a particular order. Correlation is used to associate a particular
    message to an ongoing conversation between too particular business process instances. BPMN allows using existing message data for correlation purposes, e.g., for
    the order process, a particular instance can be identified by means of its order ID and/or customer ID, rather than requiring the introduction of technical correlation
    data.
    2. Add a footnote to the next paragraph clarifying that it also refers to message events – here is the original paragraph with the suggested footnote in *** ***:
    The concept of Correlation facilitates the association of a Message to a Send Task or Receive Task***All references to Send or Receive Tasks in this section also
    include message catch or throw events – they behave identically with respect to correlation*** in a
    Conversation, a mechanism BPMN refers to as instance routing. It is a particular useful concept where there is no
    infrastructure support for instance routing. Note that this association can be viewed at multiple levels, namely the
    Conversation, Choreography, and Process level. However, the actual correlation happens during runtime (e.g., at
    the Process level). Correlations describe a set of predicates on a Message (generally on the application payload) that
    need to be satisfied in order for that Message to be associated to a distinct Send Task or Receive Task. By the same
    token, each Send Task and each Receive Task participates in one or many Conversations. Furthermore, it identifies
    the Message it sends or receives and thereby establishes the relationship to one (or many) CorrelationKeys.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

The Category section has incorrect/inconsistent content

  • Key: BPMN2-154
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14706
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    It states that the name of the Category provides the label for the Group. And yet Category does not have a name attribute. So where is the name coming from.

    Also, given that Group references CategoryValue (and not Category), shoudn't the Group label be the CategoryValue.value, rather than the Category name? In Figure 8-14, what is "Handle Medicine" ... is it a Category name or a CategoryValue.value?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Beta 1, August 2009 (pdf version)
    (a) Page 59: Change
    "The Group object is an Artifact that provides a visual mechanism to group elements of a diagram informally. The grouping is tied to the Category supporting element
    (which is an attribute of all BPMN elements). That is, a Group is a visual depiction of a single Category. The graphical elements within the Group will be assigned the
    Category of the Group. (Note – Categories can be highlighted through other mechanisms, such as color, as defined by a modeler or a modeling tool)."
    to
    "The Group object is an Artifact that provides a visual mechanism to group elements of a diagram informally. The grouping is tied to the CategoryValue supporting
    element. That is, a Group is a visual depiction of a single CategoryValue. The graphical elements within the Group will be assigned the CategoryValue of the Group.
    (Note – CategorieValues can be highlighted through other mechanisms, such as color, as defined by a modeler or a modeling tool)."
    (b) Figure 8.14 - no change required
    (c) Figure 8.15 - The Group class diagram
    Add attribute "name" of type sting to class "Category". Change "categoryRef" to "categoryValueRef".

    • Update the XSD file accordingly.
      (d) Page 60:
      Change
      "The Group element inherits the attributes and model associations of BaseElement (see Table 8.5)."
      to
      "The Group element inherits the attributes and model associations of BaseElement (see Table 8.5) through its relationship to Artifact."
      (e) Table 8.21 - Group model associations
      Change
      categoryRef: Category [0..1]
      to
      categoryValueRef: CategoryValue [0..1]
    • Update the XSD file accordingly.
      Change: "The categoryRef attribute specifies the Category that the Group represents (Further details about the definition of a Category can be found on page 92). The
      name of the Category provides the label for the Group. The graphical elements within the boundaries of the Group will be assigned the Category."
      to
      "The categoryValueRef attribute specifies the CategoryValue that the Group represents (Further details about the definition of a Category and Category Value can be
      found on page 92 ). The label of the Group is provided by the value of the CategoryValue, optionally prepended by the Category name and delineator ":". The
      graphical elements within the boundaries of the Group will be assigned the CategoryValue."
      (f) Page 60:
      Change
      "Groups are one way in which Categories of objects can be visually displayed on the diagram. That is, a Group is a visual depiction of a single Category. The graphical
      elements within the Group will be assigned the Category of the Group. The Category name appears on the diagram as the Group label."
      to
      "Groups are one way in which Categories of objects can be visually displayed on the diagram. That is, a Group is a visual depiction of a single CategoryValue. The
      graphical elements within the Group will be assigned the CategoryValue of the Group. The value of CategoryValue, optionally prepended by the Category name and
      delineator ":", appears on the diagram as the Group label. "
      (g) Table 8.22 Category model associations
      Add row:
      Atttribute: name: string
      Description: The descriptive name of the element.
      (h) Page 61
      Change
      "The Category element inherits the attributes and model associations of BaseElement (see Table 8.5). Table 8.23 displays the attributes and model associations of the
      CategoryValue element."
      to
      "The CategoryValue element inherits the attributes and model associations of BaseElement (see Table 8.5). Table 8.23 displays the attributes and model associations of
      the CategoryValue element."
      Disposition: Resolved
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

V0.9.7: Section 10 Process: Add ProcessResource Attribute to Process

  • Key: BPMN2-157
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14710
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The Process does not have a way to have a resource, e.g., a supervisor, assigned. Thus, a ProcessResouce, similar to the ActivityResource, should be added.

    Comments:
    From: wstephe created: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:04:05 -0500 (CDT)
    This is suitable for the FTF

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Change the name of the ActivityResource element to ResourceRole
    (b) Update Figures 10.6, 10.7, 10.20, 10.21, and 10.22 to reflect this name change
    (c) Update Table 10.3, row 3, to reflect this name change
    (d) Update Section 10.2.1, Sub-Section ActivityResource, to reflect this name change. Five (5) changes are required.
    (e) Update Section 10.2.1, Sub-Section Expression Assignment, to reflect this name change. Two (2) changes are required.
    (f) Update Section 10.2.2, to reflect this name change. One (1) change is required.
    (g) Update Section 10.2.4, Sub-Section Human Performers, to reflect this name change. One (1) change is required.
    (h) Update Table 10.29 to reflect this name change. One (1) change is required.
    Update Table 10.30 to reflect this name change. Four (4) changes are required.
    (j) Update Table 10.135 to reflect this name change. Two (2) changes are required.
    (k) The Process element can now contain zero (0) to many ResourceRole elements.
    (l) Update Figures 10.3 and 10.7 to reflect this change
    Add one row to Table 10.1
    (m) The first column of the new row for Table 10.1 will have the following text: "resources: ResourceRole [0..*]"
    The second column of the new row for Table 10.1 will have the following text: "Defines the resource that will responsible for or in some way associated with the
    Process. The resource, e.g., a performer, can be specified in the form of a specific individual, a group, an organization role or position, or an organization. Note that the
    assigned resources of the Process does not determine the assigned resources of the Activities that are contained by the Process. See more details about resource
    assignment in Section 10.2.1"
    (o) Add the following text to Table 10.129: "<xsd:element ref="ResourceRole" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>"
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Notation for supports association

  • Key: BPMN2-156
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14708
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Filed for Frank: The supports association between processes should have
    a notation

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close; Out of Scope. The issue requests a notation that would require a new diagram added to BPMN. While there might be value in such a diagram, it is out of scope
    for the FTF or any RTFs.
    Disposition: Closed, Out Of Scope

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

XML-Schema type for 'from' and 'to' elements in Data Assignment must not be abstract

  • Key: BPMN2-151
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14701
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Oracle ( Ralf Mueller)
  • Summary:

    The XML-Schema type for elements "from" and "to" in complex type "tAssignment" is
    "tBaseElementWithMixedContent". However this type is declared abstract and forces to specify
    a xsi:type attribute for elements "from" and "to".
    The proposal is to use a non-abstract XML-schema type for "from" and "to" elements. A good
    candidate would be "tExpression" which is a non-abstract extension of "tBaseElementWithMixedContent":
    <xsd:complexType name="tAssignment">
    <xsd:complexContent>
    <xsd:extension base="tBaseElement">
    <xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:element name="from" type="tExpression" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
    <xsd:element name="to" type="tExpression" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:attribute name="language" type="xsd:anyURI"/>
    </xsd:extension>
    </xsd:complexContent>
    </xsd:complexType>

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    1. Spec table 10.58
    a. Remove attribute "language".
    b. Modify attributes "from" and "to". Make both of type "Expression". Remove "body of the" from the attribute descriptions.
    2. XSD
    a. Remove attribute "language".
    b. Change the type of the "from" and "to" attributes in tAssignment to tExpression.
    c. Modify XSD snippet in Table 10.63 to match.
    3. UML metamodel
    a. Remove attribute "language".
    b. Change the "from" and "to" attributes in the Assignment class to be of type Expression.
    c. Replace Figure 10.61.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

XSD: mixed="true" is redundant in tFormalExpression element

  • Key: BPMN2-150
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14700
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Object Management Group ( Mr. Mariano Benitez)
  • Summary:

    Since it inherits from a base element with mixed content, it does not need to define itself as mixed.

    Comments:
    From: ssamoojh@ca.ibm.com created: Tue, 19 May 2009 11:47:40 -0500 (CDT)
    The 'mixed' setting does not need to be redeclared. It is transitively inherited. tExpression inherits it from tBaseElementWithMixedContent. tFormalExpression also (and thus it does not need to be redeclared there).

    So there's a minor consistency issue (with tFormalExpression), but no technical issue to my knowledge.

    [Reducing the severity based on this information.]

    From: mariano.benitez created: Tue, 19 May 2009 12:23:01 -0500 (CDT)
    suggest to defer but agree the resolution (remove mixed=True from tFormalExpression)

    From: mariano.benitez created: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 09:20:03 -0500 (CDT)
    Testing notification scheme

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Table 8.68, page 103 (133 pdf): remove attribute 'mixed="true"' in the tFormalExpression complex type definition.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Multiple PartnerEntities per Participant

  • Key: BPMN2-149
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14699
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Collaborations and other C models might be in reusable libraries, but
    currently their participants cannot be linked to multiple entities, and
    cannot be linked with modifying the C model. For example, a
    collaboration might describe a contract that many entities can enter
    into. This contract might be in a library and not be modifiable.
    Entities should still be able to refer to participants in it to indicate
    they commit to the contract. This commitment is made jointly by
    multiple entities, each linked to their own participants.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The associations from Participant to PartnerEntity and PartnerRole
    should be unidirectional from PartnerEntity and PartnerRole, rather than
    Participant, and have unbounded multiplicity on both ends. This enables
    modelers to assign entities and roles to interaction models in libraries
    without modifying the library.
    The resolution assumes the resolution of 14654.
    In the Collaborations chapter, Participants section, figure The
    Participant Class Diagram, on the partnerRoleRef and partnerEntityRef
    associations from Participant:

    • Change the 0..1 multiplicities to *.
    • Insert a "/" just before the association end names (but not part of
      the names).
    • Reverse the navigation direction of the associations (leaving the
      association end names where they are).
    • Name the unamed association ends "participantRef".
      In the Collaborations chapter, Participants section, in the table
      Participant attributes and model associations:
    • In the partnerRoleRef row, right column, at the end, add the
      sentence, "This attribute is derived from the participantRefs of
      Partner Roles."
    • In the partnerEntityRef row, right column, at the end, add the
      sentence, "This attribute is derived from the participantRefs of
      Entity Roles."
      In the Collaborations chapter, Participants section, PartnerEntity
      subsection, in the table PartnerEntity attributes, add a row at the end:
    • participantRef [0..*]
      Specifies how the Partner Entity participates in collaborations
      and choreographies.
      In the Collaborations chapter, Participants section, PartnerRole
      subsection, in the table PartnerEntity attributes, add a row at the end:
    • participantRef [0..*]
      Specifies how the Partner Role participates in collaborations
      and choreographies.
      In the Collaborations chapter, Collaboration Package XML Schemas
      section, in table Participant XML schema, remove:
      <xsd:attribute name="partnerRoleRef" type="xsd:QName" use="optional"/>
      <xsd:attribute name="partnerEntityRef" type="xsd:QName" use="optional"/>
      Disposition: Resolved
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Beta 1 Section 12.4 Choreography Activities: Fix redundancy in the definition of these elements

  • Key: BPMN2-160
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14714
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    There is some redundancy in the definition of Choreography Activities. For example, Participants are listed as well as MF, which have source and targer Participants. Also, for one-way Tasks, the initiating Participant can be derived from the MF.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The initiatingParticipantRef is necessary for non one-way Choreography Activities. Removing the ParticipantRefs would not allow modelers to create Choreography
    Activities before defining the Message Flow.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Beta 1 Section 2.2 Process Execution Conformance: Describe this conformance apart from Process Modeling Conformance

  • Key: BPMN2-159
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14713
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Add a description of how a tool might conform to Process Execution independent of Process Modeling Conformance.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Make the following changes in section 2.2.1 Execution Semantics

    • Add the following text
      "The tool claiming Process Execution Conformance type is not expected to support Process Modeling Conformance. More precisely, the tool is not required to
      support graphical syntax and semantics defined in this specification. It MAY use different graphical elements, shapes and markers, then those defined in this
      specification."
      instead of
      "The tool claiming Process Execution Conformance type is not expected to support Process Modeling Conformance."
      Disposition: Resolved
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Use "item" terminology more uniformly

  • Key: BPMN2-158
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14712
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    > Terminology is perhaps the hardest part of standards such
    > as BPMN. There is no way to pick terms that will be
    > acceptable to all potential users of BPMN. Different groups
    > will come into BPMN with different expectations. Some of
    > the terms will fit those expectations and other will not.
    > [From <a href="http://www.omg.org/archives/bpmn2-eval/msg00048.html">http://www.omg.org/archives/bpmn2-eval/msg00048.html</a>]

    In this particular case, the submission has one already ("item", as in
    ItemDefinition, ItemAwareElement, and ItemKind), introduced to
    accomodate informational and physical flows. I think it would be good
    to have uniform terminology covering both information and physical
    things, for example:

    Message Flow => Item Flow
    (Message appears redundant with ItemDefinition, or Message could be
    a subclass of ItemDefinition for those items that happen
    to be used in Item Flows)
    Data Object => Item Object
    DataInput => ItemInput
    DataOutput => ItemOutput
    DataState => ItemState
    DataAssociations => ItemAssociations

    So much of BPMN's market is modeling businesses in general rather than
    business software specifically, that I think it's important for adoption
    to have the appropriate terminology.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    DataInputs/Outputs/Objects, Messages, and other BPMN elements can be
    physical, as defined in ItemDefinition, and it would be better if the
    names reflected that possibility. However, implementations are too far
    along to change at this point.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Service Task => Operation Task

  • Key: BPMN2-148
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14697
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Since the term "service" isn't used anymore in the interface and
    operation model, it would be better if ServiceTask were renamed, perhaps
    to OperationTask.

    Comments:
    From: ssamoojh@ca.ibm.com created: Thu, 28 May 2009 17:57:44 -0500 (CDT)
    Actually I was just about to open an issue, suggesting we rename "Interface" to "Service Interface", given that "Interface" is generally an overloaded term.

    From: conrad.bock created: Fri, 29 May 2009 08:15:35 -0500 (CDT)
    True, although I think it's less overloaded than "service", which has a
    very different business meaning than in software. I thought "operation"
    was more neutral, and it's what is actually invoked by a Service Task
    (see the operationRef attribute on ServiceTask).

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Business modelers will usually take the term "service" in the business
    sense, rather than in the operation invocation sense of WSDL or UML,
    which is the current meaning of ServiceTask. However, implementations
    are too far along to change the name at this point.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Editorial: Incorrect containment statement for EventDefinitions

  • Key: BPMN2-155
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14707
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Beta 1 spec page 238 (268 pdf) states that:
    "When one of the EventDefinition sub-types (e.g., TimerEventDefinition) is defined it is contained in Definitions."

    This is of course incorrect, since an EventDefinition can be contained by either the Definitions or the Catch/ThrowEvent.

    Comments:
    From: wstephe created: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:03:15 -0500 (CDT)
    The page number was updated to match the Beta 1 spec

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Change the paragraph to:
    "When one of the EventDefinition sub-types (e.g., TimerEventDefinition) is defined, it is either a reusable event definition contained in Definitions, or a contained event
    definition contained in a Throw/Catch Event."
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Misleading copy/paste para regarding Properties

  • Key: BPMN2-110
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14646
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    In the Lifecycle and Visibility section of Properties, the second para is misleading. The Para starts with "The visibility of a Property" this may lead to the misconception that Properties have depictions, which they don't. The para also refers to Process as flow elements and the scope example below does not really present the concept very well.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Beta 1, August 2009 (pdf version)
    (a) Page 183
    Change: "A DataObject has a well-defined lifecycle, with resulting visibility constraints."
    to
    "A DataObject has a well-defined lifecycle, with resulting access constraints."
    (b) Page 184
    Change: "Data Object elements are visible in a Process diagram."
    to
    "Data Object elements are visually displayed on a Process diagram."
    (c) Page 186
    Change heading "Lifecycle and Visibility"
    to "Lifecycle and Accessability"
    Change: "The visibility of a Data Object is driven by its lifecycle. "
    to
    "The accessibility of a Data Object is driven by its lifecycle. "
    Change:
    "Data object 1" is visible to: "Process A," "Task A," "Sub-Process A," "Task B," "Sub-Process B," "Sub-Process C,"
    "Task C," and "Task D."
    "Data object 2" is visible to: "Sub-Process A" and "Task B."
    "Data object 3" is visible to: "Sub-Process B," "Sub-Process C," "Task C," and "Task D."
    "Data object 4" is visible to: "Sub-Process C" and "Task C."
    to
    "Data object 1" can be accessed by: "Process A," "Task A," "Sub-Process A," "Task B," "Sub-Process B," "Sub-Process C," "Task C," and "Task D."
    "Data object 2" can be accessedby: "Sub-Process A" and "Task B."
    "Data object 3" can be accessed by: "Sub-Process B," "Sub-Process C," "Task C," and "Task D."
    "Data object 4" can be accessed by: "Sub-Process C" and "Task C."
    (d) Page 188
    Change
    "Properties, like Data Objects, are item-aware elements. But, unlike Data Objects, they are not visible within a Process diagram."
    to
    "Properties, like Data Objects, are item-aware elements. But, unlike Data Objects, they are not visually displayed on a Process diagram."
    Change
    "Property elements are NOT visible in a Process diagram."
    to
    "Property elements are NOT visually displayed on a Process diagram."
    (e) Page 189
    Change heading "Lifecycle and Visibility"
    to "Lifecycle and Accessability"
    Change
    "The visibility of a Property is driven by its lifecycle. The data within a Property can only be accessed when there is guaranteed to be a live Property instance present.
    As a result, a Property can only be accessed by its parent Flow Element or, when its parent Flow Element is a Process or Sub-Process, then by the immediate children
    of that Process or Sub-Process."
    to
    "The accessibility of a Property is driven by its lifecycle. The data within a Property can only be accessed when there is guaranteed to be a live Property instance
    present. As a result, a Property can be accessed by its parent Process, Sub-process or Flow Element. In case the parent is a Process or Sub-Process, then a property
    can be accesses by the immediate children (including children elements) of that Process or Sub-Process."
    (f) Page 190
    Change
    The Properties of "Process A" are visible to: All elements (including children elements) of this Process
    The Properties of "Sub-Process A" are visible to: "Sub-Process A" and "Task B."
    The Properties of "Task C" are visible to: "Task C."
    to
    The Properties of "Process A" are accessible by: "Process A", "Task A", "Sub-Process A", "Task B", "Sub_Process B", "Sub-Process C", "Task C" and "Task D"
    The Properties of "Sub-Process A" are accessible by: "Sub-Process A" and "Task B."
    The Properties of "Task C" are accessible by: "Task C."
    (g) Page 191
    Change
    "The DataInput is an item-aware element. DataInput elements may appear in a Process diagram to show the inputs to the Process as whole, which are passed along as
    the inputs of Activities by DataAssociations"
    to
    "The DataInput is an item-aware element. DataInput elements are visually displayed in on a Process diagram to show the inputs to the Process as whole, which are
    passed along as the inputs of Activities by DataAssociations."
    (h) Page 193
    Change
    "The DataOutput is an item-aware element. DataOutput elements appear in a Process diagram to show the outputs of the Process as whole, which are passed along
    from the outputs of Activities by DataAssociations."
    to
    "The DataOutput is an item-aware element. DataOutput elements are visually displayed on a Process diagram to show the outputs of the Process as whole, which are
    passed along from the outputs of Activities by DataAssociations. "
    Table 10.57 - DataAssociation model associations
    Change
    "Specifies an optional transformation expression. The actual scope of visible data for that expression is defined by the source and target of the specific data association
    types."
    to
    "Specifies an optional transformation expression. The actual scope of accessible data for that expression is defined by the source and target of the specific data
    association types."
    (j) Page 202
    Change
    "The source of such a DataAssociation can be every item-aware element visible to the current scope, e.g., a Data Object, a Property or an Expression."
    to
    "The source of such a DataAssociation can be every item-aware element accessible in the current scope, e.g., a Data Object, a Property or an Expression."
    Change
    "The DataOutputAssociation can be used to associate a DataOutput contained within an ACTIVITY with any item-aware element visible to the scope the association
    will be executed in. The target of such a DataAssociation can be every item-aware element visible to the current scope, e.g, a Data Object, a Property or an
    Expression."
    to
    "The DataOutputAssociation can be used to associate a DataOutput contained within an ACTIVITY with any item-aware element accessible in the scope the
    association will be executed in. The target of such a DataAssociation can be every item-aware element accessible in the current scope, e.g, a Data Object, a Property
    or an Expression."
    (k) Page 203
    Change
    "The visibility to the Expression language is defined based on the entities visibility to the Activity that contains the expression. All elements visible from the enclosing
    element of an XPath expression must be made available to the XPath processor."
    to
    "The accessibility by the Expression language is defined based on the entities accessibility by the Activity that contains the expression. All elements accessible from the
    enclosing element of an XPath expression must be made available to the XPath processor. "
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

URL referenced for WfMC Gloassary is incorrect


Definition of Participant Band Shadings not clear

  • Key: BPMN2-101
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14589
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The participant bands of Choreography Activities have different shadings, but chapter 12 does not define the shadings or the reasons. The differences are shown in a figure, but not defined in the text.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Section 12.4.1, page 316 (346 pdf): Add the following diamond bullet prior to Figure 12.8:
    "The Participant Band of the Participant that does not initiate the interaction MUST be shaded with a light fill."
    (b) Section 12.4.2, page 322 (352 pdf): Add the following diamond bullet prior to Figure 12.17:
    "The Participant Band of a Participant that does not initiate the interaction MUST be shaded with a light fill."
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Missing DataStore from the enumeration of item-awre elements at top of the page

  • Key: BPMN2-108
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14644
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    The first para at the top of page 212 lists the possible item-aware elements but is missing the DataSore as per the class diagram below it Figure 10-46

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 10.3,1 Sub-Section "Item-Aware Elements," page 182 (212 pdf), last sentence on page: add "Data Stores" to list of elements in the sentence.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Merge Conversation and Collaboration

  • Key: BPMN2-107
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14641
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Conversation and Collaboration currently differ because Conversation
    messages can grouped, and Conversation can be reused. Since these
    capabilities are useful on collaboration, it would be simpler for users
    and implementers to merge these diagrams. Then there would be two
    interactions diagrams, one highlighting communication between
    participants (collaboration/conversation) and one highlighting the
    sequence of message flow (Choreography). This would be easier to
    explain and reduce the terminology complexity of the "three C models".

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 14654 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section 10.2.3

  • Key: BPMN2-111
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14647
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: SAP SE ( Rouven Day)
  • Summary:

    Section(s) of Spec: 10.2.3

    Sub-Team responsible:

    Type: Editorial

    Description of issue:
    Section 10.2.3 says "A User Task is a typical "workflow" Task where a human performer performs the Task with the assistance of a
    software application and is scheduled through a task list manager of some sort."
    The second part of this sentence is not correct. It could not be that every User Task has to be scheduled through a task list manager. E.g. there are User Tasks where the user has to go to a system, open a transaction and enters some data. On complete and event is fired that tells the process engine that the task is completed.
    I consider this kind of task as a User Task as well, even though it is not scheduled through a task list manager.

    Proposal: Can we relax or remove the second part of the sentence?

  • Reported: BPMN 1.2 — Sat, 1 Aug 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Beta 1, August 2009 (pdf version)
    In section 10.2.3, sub-section "User Task" make the following changes.
    Include
    "A User Task is a typical "workflow" Task where a human performer performs the Task with the assistance of a software application. The lifecycle of the task is
    managed by a software component (called task manager) and is typically executed in the context of a process."
    instead of
    "A User Task is a typical "workflow" Task where a human performer performs the Task with the assistance of a software application and is scheduled through a task
    list manager of some sort."
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Variable Id TO Variation Id

  • Key: BPMN2-100
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14579
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Red Hat ( Gary Brown)
  • Summary:

    Page 326 of pdf: para below Figure 11.4 refers to "(keyed on Variable Id and Order Id)", however the figure 11.4 uses Variation ID and Order ID.

    Proposal: change "Variable Id" in paragraph to "Variation Id".

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 11, page 296 (page 326 pdf), first paragraph after Figure 11.4, second sentence: change "Varable ID" to "Variation ID"
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

The schema for globalTasks of type Send ,Receive and Service are not there

  • Key: BPMN2-99
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14568
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    In the semantic.xsd and in the spec document chapter 10.2.7 vs chapter 10.2.9. The schemas for the globalSendTask, globalReceiveTask and globalSendTask are missing. This is related to another reported issue that the class diagram Figure 10-40 on page 199 is also missing these corresponding classes

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of this issue is covered by 14779 OMG-14779
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Conversation Muddle

  • Key: BPMN2-106
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14623
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The concept of conversation is muddled in the idea of a logical grouping of message flow and a diagram that contains a set of these groupings. Conversations should be a light-weight element defined to be used in any diagram that has message flow.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 14654 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Correlation on Choregraphy

  • Key: BPMN2-105
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14622
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    It should be possible to add correlation to
    choreography, without creating a conversation.
    Sometimes interactions are only described with
    choreograpies, and they might need correlation

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution to this issue was resolved through Issue 14654 (14654)
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Typo in Section 7.2 paragraph 1

  • Key: BPMN2-104
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14617
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: TIBCO ( Justin Brunt)
  • Summary:

    The second sentence of the first paragraph in section 7.2 states: "The goal of
    the specification is to enable portability of Process definitions, so that users can take Process definitions created in
    one vendor’s environment and use them is another vendor’s environment."

    The final part of the sentence should read "and use them in another vendor’s environment."

    i.e. "is" should become "in"

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 7.1, page 14 (page 44 pdf), first paragraph, second sentence: change "use them is another" to "use them in another"
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Missing details regarding the visualisation of a DataState for a DataObject

  • Key: BPMN2-109
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14645
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    The section discussing States of DataObject at the bottom of page 213 refers to Figure 7-8 to examplify the visualization of a DataState attribute of a DataObject but fails to specify the details of this visualizaton (i.e. in this particular case using square brackets surrounding the DataState value).

    Or is the visualization left to the vendor tool?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close this issue as a duplicate.
    The proposals for OMG 15080 (15080) will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

URL referenced for XPDL specification is incorrect


Need to revisit and test the process example in the spec (Figure 7-8)

  • Key: BPMN2-143
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14692
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Need to revisit and test the process example in the spec (Figure 7-8). I'm not convinced this example 'works'.

    Some immediate concerns:

    • Process Parts does not have any data output. So I'm not sure what the conditional sequence flow out of it would evaluate against.
    • The 'artifact extensions' appear to be used like data-aware elements, but they're not really.

    I'd suggest we validate the example further.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Replace Figure 7.8 with the figure shown here:
    (Figure+7-8+Proposal+2010-04-01.png)
    To address the first concern, a data output has been introduced to the sub-process 'Procure Parts', which the conditional sequence flow can now evaluate against.
    The artifact extension 'Order Folder' and the associations connected to it have been substituted by two data associations from the data objects 'Assemblies (1..n)' and
    'Invoice' to the human task 'Send Assemblies & Invoice to Customer'.
    This usage of an artifact extension is possible, but miss-leading, because it suggests that the artifact is a data object connected via data associations. However, a data
    association can only connect a data object with an activity or event, but not data objects with each other. See also page 198 (230): 'The DataAssociation class is a
    BaseElement contained by an Activity or Event, [...]'
    All remaining artifact extensions have also been removed.
    Besides this, we made some minor layout improvements that did not change the semantics.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Service Package => Interface Package

  • Key: BPMN2-142
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14691
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Since the term "service" isn't used anymore in the interface and
    operation model, it would be better if the Service Package were renamed,
    perhaps to Interface Package.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The proposal is to close the issue with no changes to the specification. Concepts "interface" and "operation" are used to model services. There is no need to rename
    "Service Package" as term "service" is a "superordinate" concept.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Lanes and Sequence Flow

  • Key: BPMN2-147
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14696
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    As per the current spec, a Lane references FlowElements. But FlowElements include SequenceFlow, which introduces issues given that SequenceFlow can span Lanes (e.g. the source is in one Lane while the target is in another).

    Recommendation: The spec text should indicate that SequenceFlow are not included in the list of FlowElements referenced by a Lane. Tools are then responsible for presenting and laying out the SequenceFlow appropriately, based on its source and targets.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Lanes will reference FlowNodes, which exclude SequenceFlows (only activities, events and gateways are FlowNodes).
    We will change the semantic metamodel to reflect this change.
    a) in Figure 10.122 - The Lane class diagram , replace FlowElement with FlowNode
    b) below Figure 10.122, replace Flow Element with FlowNodes in these sentences:

    • "Each LaneSet and its Lanes can partition the Flow Elements in a different way."
    • "a tool can use to determine the list of Flow Elements to be partitioned into this Lane"
      c) in Table 10.128 - Lane attributes and model associations
      Replace flowElementRefs with flowNodeRefs, and FlowElement with FlowNode
      d) in Table 10.132 - Lane XML Schema
      Replace flowElementRef with flowNodeRef in this snippet
      <xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:element name="partitionElement" type="tBaseElement" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
      <xsd:element name="flowElementRef" type="xsd:IDREF" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="
      unbounded"/>
      Disposition: Resolved
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Grouping message flow in Collaboration

  • Key: BPMN2-146
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14695
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Message flow can be grouped in Choreography and Conversation, and should
    be in Collaboration also. For example, a collaboration participant
    might have a process with a call activity that send/receives many
    messages. The modeler should be able to show these as a single line
    between the activity and the other participant, as in a conversation.
    otherwise, the modeler can only show the most detailed view of the
    interaction, with every lowest level message flow in the diagram.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 14564 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

CorrelationSubscription Ownership

  • Key: BPMN2-137
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14685
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Figure 8-18 (The Correlation Class Diagram) shows only one-way
    references away from CorrelationSubscription. What owns
    CorrelationPropertyBindings? Table 8-35 (CorrelationSubscription model
    associations) says it's a BaseElement, and that it has a Process
    attribute. The subsection on Context-based Correlation in Section 8.3.3
    (Correlation) implies it is owned by Process.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    > Section 8.3.3 Correlation
    Figure 8.18 - The Correlation Class Diagram
    Change metamodel
    Original
    CorrelationSubscription is contained in Common package but is not contained by any concept
    Proposal (in accordance with Table 8.35 - CorrelationSubscription model associations)
    1 Process contains n CorrelationSubscriptions. Each CorrelationSubscription is contained by exactly 1 Process. Add association from Process to
    CorrelationSubscription.
    > Section 10 Process
    Figure 10.3 - Process Details class diagram
    Change metamodel
    Original
    Process class has no association to CorrelationSubscription class.
    Proposal
    Add containment Process CorrelationSubscription: 1 Process contains n CorrelationSubscriptions.
    Table 10.1 - Process Attributes & Model Associations
    Append row: subscriptions: CorrelationSubscription [0..*]
    Original
    N/A
    Proposal
    Attribute Name
    subscriptions: CorrelationSubscription [0..*]
    Description/Usage
    Correlation Subscriptions are a feature of context-based correlation (cf. section 8.3.3). Subscriptions are used to correlate incoming messages against data in the
    Process context. A Process may several subscriptions.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Semantic metamodel => Abstract syntax

  • Key: BPMN2-138
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14687
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    The term "semantics" is used in execution to refer to how a model is
    translated to runtime (or business) behavior, which is the technical
    meaning of the word. Metamodels, on the other hand, are a kind of
    syntax that omits some details of the pictures appearing on the screen.
    Would be better to use the term "Abstract syntax" instead of "Semantic
    metamodel" when it's necessary to distinguish it from the diagram
    metamodel.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Metamodels are an abstract form of syntax that omits some aspects of
    visual (concrete) syntax. Semantics is about how a business behaves
    given a model defined with the syntax.
    Above Figure 8.2 (Class diagram showing the core packages), first
    bullet, replace "semantic modeling" with "modeling".
    Section 8.2 (Foundation), first sentence, replace "semantic model"
    with "abstract syntax model".
    Section A.1 (Changes from BPMN, v1.2), third paragraph, second bullet,
    replace "semantic model" with "abstract syntax model".
    Section 8.1 (Infrastructure), first sentence, replace "semantic models"
    with "abstract syntax models".
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Error class has no 'name' attribute

  • Key: BPMN2-144
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14693
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    For it to be usable, it needs a 'name' attribute

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Table 8.43: Add a new attribute called "name", with description "The descriptive name of the error".
    (b) Table 8.64 (schema snippet): Update XSD snippet to add the 'name' attribute.
    <xsd:element name="error" type="tError" substitutionGroup="rootElement"/>
    <xsd:complexType name="tError">
    <xsd:complexContent>
    <xsd:extension base="tRootElement">
    <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string"/>
    <xsd:attribute name="structureRef" type="xsd:QName"/>
    </xsd:extension>
    </xsd:complexContent>
    </xsd:complexType>
    (c) Figure 8.20: Replace with
    (Error+Metamodel.jpg)
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Conversation/Communication switch

  • Key: BPMN2-140
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14689
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    A number of places in the text use the word "conversation" that should
    be "communication", for example Figure 11-1 and in Section 11 (eg, A
    Conversation is set of Message exchanges (Message Flow) that share the
    same correlation).

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This is addressed by the resolution of 14654.
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Choreography Subprocess => Subchoreography

  • Key: BPMN2-141
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14690
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    To avoid confusion of Choreography with Process, and to be consistent
    with naming of analogous elements in Process, it seems like Choreography
    Subprocess should be renamed to Subchoreography.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Change all occurrences of "Choreography Sub-Process" to "Sub-Choreography"
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Typo in Terminate Event description

  • Key: BPMN2-145
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14694
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    See pg. 270 of spec version 0.9.13.

    The section is for the Terminate Event, but it talks about the CancelEventDefinition rather than the TerminateEventDefinition.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Change CancelEventDefinition with TerminateEventDefinition in the paragraph
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

MessageFlowRefs missing from Conversation metamodel diagram

  • Key: BPMN2-139
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14688
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    MessageFlowRefs missing from Conversation metamodel diagram (compare to
    Conversation attributes table).

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 14654 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Beta 1 Section 11 Conversation:

  • Key: BPMN2-117
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14654
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Beta 1 Section 11 Conversation: The concepts of Conversation, Conversation Diagram, and Communication are too confusing. The distinctions between Conversation and Communication are not clear. It appears as though the Conversation is used for multiple concepts, including a diagram. This should be clarified.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The proposal is to merge the Collaboration and Conversation diagrams.
    While the proposal is complicated it will:

    • Significantly simplify implementation by reducing the number of metamodel elements, metamodel complexity, and required text restriction
    • Provides a better alignment with another standard: SoaML
    • There would be no loss of current end-user functionality
      The Proposal includes:
      (a) Delete Chapter 11. It's contents will be moved to Chapter 9 as detailed below
      Modifications to Section 8
      (b) Section 8, page 39 (69 pdf), last paragraph: change "Choreography, Collaboration, and Conversation" to "Choreography, and Collaboration"
      (c) Figure 8.3, replace figure with new organization of Core elements (see Specification Convenience Document)
      (d) Section 8.3, page 55 (85 pdf), first sentence: change "Collaboration, Conversation, and Choreography" to "Collaboration, and Choreography"
      (f) Figure 8.8, replace figure with new organization of Artifact elements (see Specification Convenience Document)
      (g) Section 8.3.2, page 63 (93 pdf), replace first sentence with: "CallableElement is the abstract super class of all elements that have been defined outside of a Process,
      but which can be called (or reused), by a Call Activity, from within a Process."
      (h) Section 8.3.2, page 63 (93 pdf), add at the end of the first paragraph: "The BPMN elements that can be called by Call Activities (i.e., are Callable Elements) are:
      Process and GlobalTask (see Figure 8.17)."
      Figure 8.17, replace figure with new organization of Callable elements (see Specification Convenience Document)
      (j) Move Section 8.3.2 to a subsection of Section 10.2.6
      (k) Section 8.3.3, page 65 (95 pdf), change first sentence to: "The concept of Correlation facilitates the association of a Message to a Send Task or Receive Task,
      often in the context of a Conversation, which is also known as instance routing."
      (l) Section 8.3.3, page 65 (95 pdf), second sentence: change "Conversation, Choreography" to "Collaboration (Conversation), Choreography"
      (m) Figure 8.18, replace figure with new organization of Correlation elements (see Specification Convenience Document)
      Table 8.32, CorrelationKey: delete the row for the conversation attribute
      (o) Section 8.3.4, page 71 (101 pdf), replace first paragraph with "These elements are used to do mapping between two elements that both contain Conversation
      Nodes. The ConverstaqionAssociation provides the mechanism to match up the Conversation Nodes."
      (p) Section 8.3.4, page 71 (101 pdf), second paragraph, delete second sentence
      (q) Section 8.3.4, page 71 (101 pdf), replace first bullet on page with: "A Collaboration references a Choreography for inclusion between the Collaboration's Pools
      (Participants). The Conversation Nodes of the Choreography (the inner diagram) need to be mapped to the Conversation Nodes of the Collaboration (the outer
      diagram)."
      (r) Section 8.3.4, page 71 (101 pdf), delete second bullet on page
      (s) Figure 8.18, replace figure with new organization of Conversation elements (see Specification Convenience Document)
      (t) Table 8.42, page 72 (102 pdf), delete first row of table
      (u) Table 8.42, page 72 (102 pdf), replace first column of second row with: "innerConversationNodeRef: ConversationNode"
      (v) Table 8.42, page 72 (102 pdf), replace second column of second row with: "This attribute defines the Conversation Nodes of the referenced element (e.g., a
      Choreography to be used in a Collaboration) that will be mapped to the parent element (e.g., the Collaboration)."
      (w) Table 8.42, page 72 (102 pdf), replace first column of third row with: "outerConversationNodeRef: ConversationNode"
      Table 8.42, page 72 (102 pdf), replace second column of third row with: "This attribute defines the Conversation Nodes of the parent element (e.g., a
      Collaboration references a Choreography) that will be mapped to the referenced element (e.g., the Choreography)."
      Move Section 8.3.4 to Section 11 after Section 11.7. The Contents of Section 11 will be moved to Section 9 as described below.
      (z) Figure 8.24, replace figure with new organization of Flow Element Container elements (see Specification Convenience Document)
      (a2) Table 8.46: delete second row (artifacts attribute)
      (b2) Delete section 8.3.11, Interaction Specification. All Interaction Specification characters have been moved to Collaboration (Section 9 and detailed below)
      (c2) Section 8.3.14, page 87 (117 pdf), first paragraph (non-bullet): delete "(the view showing the Choreography Process Combined with Orchestration Processes)"
      from first sentence.
      (d2) Section 8.3.14, page 88 (118 pdf), first paragraph : Change "Choreography Task" to "Choreography"
      (e2) Figure 8.24, replace figure with new organization of Flow Element Container elements (see Specification Convenience Document)
      (f2) Section 8.3.14, Sub-Section Message Flow Association, page 90 (120 pdf), second paragraph: Delete second sentence
      (g2) Section 8.3.14, Sub-Section Message Flow Association, page 90 (120 pdf): Delete the second and third bullet on the page.
      (h2) Figure 8.39, replace figure with new organization of Message Flow Association elements (see Specification Convenience Document)
      (i2) Move Section 8.3.14 to Section 9 and make it Section 9.3
      (j2) Section 8.3.15, page 91 (121 pdf), second paragraph, second sentence: Change "InteractionSpecification" to "Collaboration"
      (k2) Section 8.3.15, page 91 (121 pdf), second paragraph, second sentence: Change "Collaboration, a Choreography, a Conversation, a Global Communication, or a
      GlobalChoreographyTask" to "Choreography, GlobalConversation, or GlobalChoreographyTask"
      (l2) Figure 8.40, replace figure with new organization of Participant elements (see Specification Convenience Document)
      (m2) Section 8.3.15, Sub-Section Participant Multiplicity, second paragraph: Change "Choreography" to "Collaboration"
      (n2) Section 8.3.15, Sub-Section Participant Association, second paragraph: Change "three (3)" to "four (4)"
      (o2) Section 8.3.15, Sub-Section Participant Association: replace the second bullet with the following: "A CallConversation references a Collaboration or
      GlobalConversation. Thus, the Participants of the Collaboration or GlobalConversation (the inner diagram) need to be mapped to the Participants referenced by the
      CallConversation (the outer element). Each CallConversation contains its own set of ParticipantAssociations."
      (p2) Section 8.3.15, Sub-Section Participant Association: replace the third bullet with the following: "A CallChoreography references a Choreography or
      GlobalChoreographyTask. Thus, the Participants of the Choreography or GlobalChoreographyTask (the inner diagram) need to be mapped to the Participants
      referenced by the CallChoreography (the outer element). Each CallChoreography contains its own set of ParticipantAssociations."
      (q2) Section 8.3.15, Sub-Section Participant Association: add a forth bullet with the following: "A CallActivity within a Process that has a definitional Collaboration
      references another Process that also has a definitional Collaboration. The Participants of the definitional Collaboration of the called Process (the inner diagram) need to
      be mapped to the Participants of the definitional Collaboration of the calling Process (the outer diagram)."
      (r2) Figure 8.43, replace figure with new organization of Participant Association elements (see Specification Convenience Document)
      (s2) Move Section 8.3.15 to Section 9 and make it Section 9.2.1
      (t2) Move Table 8.62 to Section 10.2.9
      (u2) Table 8.63, replace the "extension" section of the table with the following:
      "<xsd:extension base="tBaseElement">
      <xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:element name="innerConversationNodeRef" type="xsd:QName"/>
      <xsd:element name="outerConversationNodeRef" type="xsd:QName"/>
      </xsd:sequence>
      </xsd:extension>"
      (v2) Move Tables 8.63, 8.72, 8.73, 8.74, 8.75, 8.76, and 8.77 to Section 9.5 Collaboration Package XML Schemas
      Modifications to Section 7
      (w2) Section 7.1.1, Sub-Section Conversations, first paragraph, first sentence: change "The Conversation diagram is similar to a Collaboration diagram" to "The
      Conversation diagram is a particular usage of and an informal description of a Collaboration diagram"
      (x2) Section 7.1.1, Sub-Section Conversations, first paragraph, second sentence: change "Pools of a Conversation are not allowed to contain a Process and a
      Choreography is not allowed to be placed in between the Pools" to "Pools of a Conversation are usually do not contain a Process and a Choreography is usually not
      placed in between the Pools"
      (y2) Section 7.1.1, Sub-Section Conversations, second paragraph: change "Communication" to "Conversation"
      Modifications to Section 9
      (z2) Section 9, second paragraph: after the first sentence add the following sentence: "A Choreography is an extended type of Collaboration."
      (a3) Figure 9.1, replace figure with new organization of Collaboration elements (see Specification Convenience Document)
      (b3) Section 9, paragraph before Table 9.1: delete ", and InteractionSpecification (see Table 8.48)"
      (c3) Table 9.1: add row to top of table with "name: string [0..1]" in the first column and "The descriptive name of the Collaboration." in the second column.
      (d3) Table 9.1, choreographyRef attribute row: replace the second column with the following:
      "The choreographyRef model association defines a Choreography that is shown between the Pools of the Collaboration. A Choreography specifies a business contract
      (or the order in which messages will be exchanged) between interacting Participants. See page 327 for more details on Choreography.
      The participantAssociations (see below) are used to map the Participants of the Choreography to the Participants of the Collaboration.
      The MessageFlowAssociations (see below) are used to map the Message Flows of the Choreography to the Message Flows of the Collaboration.
      The ConversationAssociations (see below) are used to map the Conversations of the Choreography to the Conversations of the Collaboration.
      Note that this attribute is not applicable for Choreography or GlobalConversation which are a subtypes of Collaboration. Thus, a Choreography cannot reference
      another Choreography."
      (e3) Table 9.1: add row after ChoreographyRef attribute row with "correlationKey: CorrelationKey [0..*]" in the first column and "This association specifies
      correlationKeys used to associate Messages to a particular Collaboration." in the second column.
      (f3) Table 9.1, conversationAssociations attribute row: replace the second column with the following:
      "This attribute provides a list of mappings from the Conversations of a referenced Collaboration to the Conversations of another Collaboration. It is used when:
      • When a Choreography is referenced by a Collaboration."
      (g3) Table 9.1, conversations attribute row: replace "Conversation" with "ConversationNode"
      (h3) Table 9.1, conversations attribute row: replace the second column with the following:
      "The conversations model aggregation relationship allows a Collaboration to contain Conversation elements, in order to group Message Flow of the Collaboration and
      associate correlation information, as is required for the definitional Collaboration of a Process model. The Conversation elements will be visualized if the Collaboration
      is a Collaboration, but not for a Choreography."
      (i3) Table 9.1: add row after artifacts attribute row with "participants: Participant [0..*]" in the first column and "This provides the list of Participants that are used in the
      Collaboration. Participants are visualized as Pools in Collaboration and as Participant Bands in Choreography Activities for Choreography." in the second column.
      (j3) Table 9.1, participantAssociations attribute row: replace the second column with the following:
      "This attribute provides a list of mappings from the Participants of a referenced Collaboration to the Participants of another Collaboration. It is used in the following
      situations:
      • When a Choreography is referenced by a Collaboration.
      • When a definitional Collaboration for a Process is referenced through a CallActivity (and mapped to definitional Collaboration of the calling Process)."
      (l3) Table 9.1: add row after participantAssociations attribute row with "messageFlow: Message Flow [0..*]" in the first column and "This provides the list of Message
      Flow that are used in the Collaboration. Message Flow are visualized in Collaboration (as dashed line) and hidden in Choreography." in the second column.
      (m3) Table 9.1, messageFlowAssociations attribute row: replace the second column with the following:
      "This attribute provides a list of mappings for the Message Flow of the Collaboration to Message Flow of a referenced model. It is used in the following situations:
      • When a Choreography is referenced by a Collaboration. This allows the "wiring up" of the Collaboration Message Flow to the appropriate Choreography Activities."
      (n3) Section 9, after Table 9.1: split first paragraph into two paragraphs after the first sentence
      (o3) Section 9, after Table 9.1: replace the first sentence of the newly created paragraph (the second paragraph) with the following: "Correlations are the mechanism
      that is used to assign the Messages to the proper Process instance, and can be defined for the Message Flow that belong to a Conversation."
      (p3) Move the text from the newly created paragraph until the end of the section (stopping at Section 9.1) to a new section (to be created) and label that section "9.4.8
      Correlations"
      (q3) Section 9.2, first paragraph, first sentence: delete "or a Choreography"
      (r3) Section 9.3: Change title of section to "Process within Collaboration"
      (s3) Figure 9.8, replace figure with new organization of Choreography and Collaboration elements (see Specification Convenience Document)
      (t3) Table 9.2, Collaboration XML Schema: Change "<xsd:element ref="conversation"" to "<xsd:element ref="conversationNode""
      (u3) Table 9.2, Collaboration XML Schema: add the following to the <xsd:sequence> section:
      "<xsd:element ref="correlationKey" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>"
      Modifications to Section 10
      (v3) Figure 10.2, replace figure with new organization of Process detail elements (see Specification Convenience Document)
      (w3) Table 10.3: add row after laneSets attribute row with "artifacts: Artifact [0..*]" in the first column and "This attribute provides the list of Artifacts that are
      contained within the Process." in the second column.
      (x3) Figure 10.28, replace figure with new organization of Sub-Process elements (see Specification Convenience Document)
      (y3) Table 10.3: add row after triggeredByEvent attribute row with "artifacts: Artifact [0..*]" in the first column and "This attribute provides the list of Artifacts that are
      contained within the Sub-Process." in the second column.
      Modifications to Section 11
      (z3) Section 11: Replace "Communication" with "Conversation" throughout section
      (a4) Section 11: Replace "GlobalCommunication" with "GlobalConversation" throughout section
      (b4) Section 11: Replace "CommunicationLink" with "ConversationLink" throughout section
      (c4) Section 11: replace first paragraph with the following: "The Conversation diagram is a particular usage of and an informal description of a Collaboration diagram.
      In general, it is a simplified version of Collaboration, but Conversation diagrams do maintain all the features of a Collaboration."
      (d4)Section 11: replace first bullet in section with the following: "Conversation Node elements (Conversation, Sub-Conversation, and Call Conversation)"
      (e4) Section 11, first sentence after second bullet: replace sentence with the following: "A Conversation is a logical grouping of Message exchanges (Message Flow)
      that can share a Correlation."
      (f4) Section 11, first paragraph after Figure 11.1: add the following to the end of the paragraph: "Note that the diagram looks the same as a simple Collaboration
      diagram (as in Figure 9.3, above)."
      (g4) Section 11, second paragraph after Figure 11.2: add the following to the end of the sentence: ", but the Conversations are not visualized in a Choreography"
      (h4) Section 11, third paragraph after Figure 11.2, first sentence: replace "Choreography" with "Collaboration"
      (i4) Section 11: delete Figure 11.5 and the paragraph above it.
      (j4) Section 11: delete Table 11.1, the paragraph above it and the paragraph below it.
      (k4) Delete Section 11.1
      (l4) Section 11.2, first paragraph: replace "all elements that can appear in a Conversation diagram" with "all elements that comprise the Conversation elements of a
      Collaboration diagram"
      (m4) Section 11.2: add figure after first paragraph with the title: "Metamodel of ConversationNode Related Elements" (see Specification Convenience Document)
      (n4) Table 11.3: add row with "messageFlowRefs: MessageFlow [0..*]" in the first column and "A reference to all Message Flows (and consequently Messages)
      grouped by a Conversation element." in the second column.
      (o4) Table 11.3 : add row with "correlationKeys: CorrelationKey [0..*]" in the first column and "This is a list of the ConversationNode's correlationKeys, which are
      used to group Message Flows for the ConversationNode." in the second column.
      (p4) Section 11.3, first sentence: change "Conversation diagram" to "Conversation (Collaboration) diagram"
      (q4) Section 11.3. second sentence: replace "single" with "concept and/or a"
      (r4) Section 11.3, first paragraph before Table 11.4: Delete second sentence and add the following to the end of the first sentence: "but does not contain any additional
      attributes or model associations"
      (s4) Delete Table 11.4
      (t4) Section 11.4, first paragraph, first sentence: replace "parent Conversation" with "parent Collaboration"
      (u4) Section 11.4, first paragraph, second sentence: replace "within a Conversation" with "within a Collaboration"
      (v4) Table 11.5: replace the first column of the first row with the following: "conversationNodes: ConversationNode [0..*]"
      (w4) Table 11.5: replace the second column of the first row with the following: "The ConversationNodes model aggregation relationship allows a Sub-Conversation to
      contain other ConversationNodes, in order to group Message Flow of the Sub-Conversation and associate correlation information."
      (x4) Section 11.5, first sentence: change "in the Conversation" to " in the Conversation (Collaboration)"
      (y4) Section 11.5, second bullet: change "calls a Conversation" to "calls a Collaboration"
      (z4) Table 11.6, first row, first column: change "calledElementRef" to "calledCollaborationRef" and change "CallableElement" to "Collaboration"
      (a5) Table 11.6, first row: replace second column with the following:
      "The element to be called, which MAY be either a Collaboration or a GlobalConversation.
      The called element MUST NOT be a Choreography or a GlobalChoreographyTask (which are subtypes of Collaboration)"
      (b5) Section 11.5: add the following after Table 11.6: "Note - The ConversationNode attribute messageFlowRef doesn't apply to Call Conversations."
      (c5) Section 11.6, first sentence: Change "within any Conversation" to "within any Collaboration"
      (d5) Section 11.6: Replace the second paragraph with the following:
      "The GlobalConversation element inherits the attributes and model associations of Collaboration (see Table 8.48), but does not have any additional attributes or model
      associations.
      A GlobalConversation is a restricted type of Collaboration, it is an "empty Collaboration."
      [diamond bullet] A GlobalConversation MUST NOT contain any ConversationNodes.
      Since a GlobalConversation does not have any Flow Elements, it does not require MessageFlowAssociations, ParticipantFlowAssociations, or
      ConversationFlowAssociations or Artifacts. It is basically a set of Participants, Message Flows , and correlationKeys intended for reuse. Also, the Collaboration
      attribute choreographyRef is not applicable to GlobalConversation."
      (e5) Delete Table 11.7
      (f5) Move all tables in Section 11.8 (XML Schemas) to Section 9.5
      (g5) Move all remaining contents of Section 11 to Section 9.4 and name that section "Conversations"
      Modifications to Section 12
      (h5) Replace "Choreography Sub-Process" with "Sub-Choreography" throughout section
      (i5) Figure 12.1, replace figure with new organization of Choreography elements (see Specification Convenience Document)
      (j5) Section 12.1, first paragraph after Figure 12.1: replace "CallableElement" with "Collaboration"
      (k5) Section 12.1, first paragraph after Figure 12.1: Delete the second sentence and add the following to the end of the first sentence: ", but does not have any
      additional attributes or model associations.
      (l5) Delete Table 12.1
      (m5) Add the following paragraph to the end of the section (before Section 12.1): "Note - The Collaboration attribute choreographyRef is not applicable to
      Choreography."
      (n5) Section 12.3.1, page 313 (343 pdf), last bullet on page, first sentence: replace "the isClosed attribute of a Choreography" with "the isClosed attribute (from
      Collaboration)"
      (o5) Figure 12.6: replace figure with new organization of Choreography Activity elements (see Specification Convenience Document)
      (p5) Section 12.4.2, last paragraph in section (before Section 12.4.3): replace the second sentence with the following: "Table 12.X presents the additional model
      associations of the Sub-Choreography element"
      (q5) Section 12.4.2, after last paragraph in section: Add a table entitled "Sub-Choreography Model Associations" with one row, with "artifacts: Artifact [0..*]" in the
      first column and "This attribute provides the list of Artifacts that are contained within the Sub-Choreography." in the second column
      (r5) Replace "Call Choreography Activity" with "Call Choreography" throughout section
      (s5) Figure 12.27, replace figure with new organization of Call Choreography elements (see Specification Convenience Document)
      (t5) Table 12.4, first row, first column: change "calledElementRef" to "calledChoreographyRef" and change "CallableElement" to "Choreography"
      (u5) Table 12.4, first row, second column: delete second sentence of column
      (v5) Table 12.4, second row, second column: change "containing" to "referenced by"
      (w5) Section 12.4.4, second paragraph, first sentence: Change "CallableElement" to "Collaboration" and add the following to the end of the sentence: "through its
      relationship to Choreography"
      (x5) Section 12.4.4: add the following after Table 12.5:
      "A GlobalChoreographyTask is a restricted type of Choreography, it is an "empty Choreography."
      [diamond bullet] A GlobalChoreographyTask MUST NOT contain any Flow Elements.
      Since a GlobalChoreographyTask does not have any Flow Elements, it does not require MessageFlowAssociations, ParticipantFlowAssociations, or
      ConversationFlowAssociations or Artifacts. It is basically a set of Participants and Message Flows intended for reuse."
      (y5) Table 12.9: change "substitutionGroup="rootelement"" to "substitutionGroup="collaboration""
      (z5) Table 12.9: change "base="tCallableElement"" to "base="tCollaboration""
      (a6) Table 12.9: delete the following:
      "<xsd:element ref="artifact" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      <xsd:element ref="messageFlow" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      <xsd:element ref="participant" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      <xsd:element ref="conversation" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      <xsd:element name="conversationAssociation" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      <xsd:element ref="messageFlowAssociation" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      <xsd:element ref="participantAssociation" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      <xsd:attribute name="isClosed" type="xsd:boolean" default="false"/>"
      (b6) Table 12.10: change "substitutionGroup="rootelement"" to "substitutionGroup="choreography""
      (c6) Table 12.10: change "base="tCallableElement"" to "base="tChoreography""
      (d6) Table 12.10: delete the following:
      "<xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:element ref="participant" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      <xsd:element ref="messageFlow" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      </xsd:sequence>"
      (e6) Table 12.13: change "calledElement" to "calledChoreographyRef"
      Disposition: Resolved
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Private process example correction

  • Key: BPMN2-116
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14652
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    The private process in Figure 10-122 (One Process supporting to another)
    should have activity X and event B in parallel, because event B may
    arrive while X is executing, which would be lost in the current example.
    See webinar example on slide 51 in bmi/09-06-02.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Replace Figure 10.123 (One Process supporting to another) with the one given in the attachment
    BPMNFTF-341-private-process-example.pdf.
    (b) In paragraph above Figure 10.123, next to last sentence (the one beginning "It also introduces"), replace "Activity" with "Activities".
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Multiple properties / keys clarification

  • Key: BPMN2-112
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14648
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-585
    Does the first message in an Conversation need to have values for all
    the properties of a correlation key, or can some values appear in later
    messages?

    When a conversation has multiple correlation keys, do all the properties
    of all the keys need to match in each message, or just the properties
    for one of the keys?

    Can a message later in a conversation send values for only some of the
    properties in a key?

    Comments:
    From: conrad.bock created: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 14:15:01 -0500 (CDT)
    Conrad,

    I doubt the spec is precise enough on that yet - so here is my
    personal take on what we want it to say:

    • All properties constituting a correlation key MUST (SHOULD?) be set
      by a single message in a conversation (Rationale: We don't want a
      partially set key.)
    • Not all correlation keys of a given conversation need to be set at
      any given time. (Rationale: Conversation keys could be added over
      the lifetime of a conversation, no reason to prevent this.)
    • When associating an (inbound) message with a conversation, all
      properties of all correlation keys contained in that message must
      match those already set for the conversation (instance). (Rationale:
      We could relax that, having it strict simplifies the rules and
      increases usability; I don't see why a message would ever contain
      multiple correlation keys some of which do not match, but could be
      convinced otherwise through scenarios. Of course a message does not
      have to contain properties for all correlation keys that may be used
      for a conversation, but those that it uses must match.)

    With that the answers to your questions would be:

    • Not all must be contained, some could be delivered later - for
      those correlation happens based on the keys that were already set
      by the first message.
    • Yes, all must match - see rationale above, we could relax that if
      we see a good reason.

    Hopefully that makes sense - and hopefully I got the terminology
    right, admittedly I didn't check back with the spec but answered from
    memory.

    Viele Grüße/Kind regards,
    -Matthias

    From: conrad.bock created: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 08:40:28 -0500 (CDT)
    These clarification affects the second paragraph of the Key-based
    Correlation subsection of Section 8.3.3 (Correlation):

    At runtime the first Send Task or Receive Task in a Conversation
    populates the CorrelationKey instance by extracting the values of the
    CorrelationProperties according to the
    CorrelationPropertyRetrievalExpression from the initially sent or
    received Message. Later in the Conversation, this CorrelationKey
    instance is used for the described matching procedure where from
    incoming Messages a composite key is extracted and used to identify
    the associated Conversation.

    New keys might appear during the converstion. For example, the initial
    message from a customer placing an order might not include the order
    number. This is assigned by a new process instance and used to
    correlate messages later in the conversation.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    under Section 8.3.3, replace the text of the first bullet with this text:
    In plain, key-based correlation, Messages that are exchanged within a Conversation are logically correlated by means of one or more common CorrelationKeys. That
    is, any Message that is sent or received within this Conversation needs to carry the value of at least one of these CorrelationKey instances within its payload. A
    CorrelationKey basically defines a (composite) key. The first Message that is initially sent or received initializes one or more CorrelationKey instances associated with
    the Conversation, i.e., assigns values to its CorrelationProperty instances which are the fields (partial keys) of the Correlation-Key. A CorrelationKey is only
    considered valid for use, if the Message has resulted in all CorrelationProperty fields within the key being populated with a value. If a follow-up Message derives a
    CorrelationKey instance, where that CorrelationKey had previously been initialized within the Conversation, then the CorrelationKey value in the Message and
    Conversation MUST match. If the follow-up Message derives a CorrelationKey instance associated with the Conversation, that had not previously been initialized, then
    the CorrelationKey value will become associated with the Conversation. As a Conversation may comprise different Messages that may be differently structured, each
    CorrelationProperty comes with as many extraction rules (CorrelationPropertyRetrievalExpression) for the respective partial key as there are different Messages.
    under section 8.3.3 Correlation, the under the title "Key-based Correlation", replace the second paragraph with this text:
    At runtime the first Send Task or Receive Task in a Conversation MUST populate atleast one of the CorrelationKey instances by extracting the values of the
    CorrelationProperties according to the CorrelationPropertyRetrievalExpression from the initially sent or received Message. Later in the Conversation, the populated
    CorrelationKey instances are used for the described matching procedure where from incoming Messages a composite key is extracted and used to identify the
    associated Conversation. Where these non-initiating Messages derive values for CorrelationKeys, associated with the Conversation but not yet populated, then the
    derived value will be associated with the Conversation instance.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

isImmediate default

  • Key: BPMN2-115
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14651
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    isImmediate on SequenceFlow currently defaults to true for all private
    processes. It should default to false for non-executable processes,
    because these are not intended to be completely specified.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In Table 8.60 (SequenceFlow attributes and model associations), isImmediate row:
    (a) Second bullet: Replace "a public Processes" with "non-executable Processes (public Processes and non-executable private Processes)"
    (b) Third bullet: Replace "an executable and non-executable (internal)" with "executable".
    In Section 10.8 (Process Instances, Unmodeled Activities, and Public Processes):
    Second bullet, replace the
    (c) Two occurrences of "processType" with "isExecutable".
    (d) First occurrence of "public" with "non-executable".
    (e) Second occurrence of "public" with "false, or defaults to false".
    (f) "private" with "executable".
    (g) "executable or non-executable" with "true, or defaults to true"
    (h) In XMI/XSD, change isImmediate attribute on SequenceFlow to be optional.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Subprocess / CallActivity switch

  • Key: BPMN2-114
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14650
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Section 10.4.2 (Start Event) uses the BPMN 1.x term "subprocess" to
    include called processes. In BPMN 2 "subprocess" means embedded. See
    Table 10-78 (Sub-Process Start Event Types) and under the heading "Start
    Event Triggers". Might be in other places also.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Section 13.2.5, Sub-Section CalledSubProcessShape, Page 383 (412 pdf): Replace the first paragraph with the following: "A Call Activity is used for invoking a
    global Process. It has the same symbol as the subprocess (embedded). Expanding the Call Activity should display the called Process."
    (b) Table 13.13 - CalledSubProcessShape , first row, second column: replace contents of column with the following: "A reference to another BPMN diagram defining
    the details of the called Global Process. "
    (c) Table 13.13 - CalledSubProcessShape styles: , first row, second column: replace contents of column with the following: "Indicates whether the Call Activity is
    expanded or collapsed."
    Section 10.4.2 Start Event
    (d) First bullet below Figure 10.67 Start Event, page 214 (244 pdf): Replace "or an expanded Sub-Process" with ", a Sub-Process (embedded), or a Global Process
    (called Process)"
    (e) First paragraph after first bullet below Figure 10.67 Start Event, page 214 (244 pdf): Replace the first sentence of the paragraph with the following: "Note - A
    Process may have more than one Process level (i.e., it can include Expanded Sub-Processes or Call Activities that call other Processes)."
    (f) Page 215 (245 pdf), First paragraph after the bullets: Replace the paragraph with the following: "If the Process is used as a Global Process (callable Process that
    can be invoke from Call Activities of other Processes) and there are multiple None Start Events, then when flow is transferred from the parent Process to the Global
    Process (child Process), only one of the Global Process's Start Events will be triggered. The TargetRef attribute of the Sequence Flow incoming to the Global Process
    object can be extended to identify the appropriate Start Event."
    Sub-Section Start Event Triggers, page 215 (245 pdf)
    (g) Second bullet: delete " and called (reusable)"
    (h) Add new bullet after second bullet with the following: "Global Processes (called)
    Sub-Section Start Events for Top-level Processes: add new paragraph after the first paragraph with the following: "A top-level that has at least one (1) None Start
    Event MAY be called by a Call Activity in another Process. The None Start Event is used for invoking the Process from the Call Activity. All other types of Start
    Events are only applicable when the Process is used as a top-level Process."
    Section 10.4.3 End Event
    (j) Page 222 (252 pdf), second bullet on page: delete "top-level" from first sentence.
    (k) Page 222 (252 pdf), first paragraph after bullets: replace first sentence of the paragraph with the following: "Note - A Process may have more than one Process
    level (i.e., it can include Expanded Sub-Processes or a Call Activities that call other Processes)."
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Processes supporting interactions

  • Key: BPMN2-123
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14664
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    When a private process supports an interaction, this currently can only
    be captured by defining a public process for the private one to support,
    and including the public process in a collaboration, with further links
    to choreographies or conversations, if those were the interaction model
    being supportted. Private processes should be able to support any of
    the interaction models directly

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    No Data Available

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Private process type

  • Key: BPMN2-122
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14662
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Modelers should be able to declare a process private without committing
    to whether it is executable or non-executable. Add private as a value
    for the type attribute.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) In Figure 10.2, 10.3, and other metamodel figures where Process appears with its attributes, insert a new attribute beneath processType: "isExecutable : Boolean".
    In Table 10.1 (Process Attributes & Model Associations), processType row, change as follows:
    left column
    (b) replace "executable | non-executable" with "private".
    right column
    (c) replace the second through fourth paragraphs (from "The BPMN 1.2 processType" through "not included in a
    non-executable Process.") with "A private process is one that is internal to a specific organization."
    insert new row below processType:
    left column
    isExecutable : Boolean [0..1]
    right column
    (d) First paragraph: "An optional Boolean value specifying whether the process is executable".
    (e) Move the current third and fourth paragraphs from the processType row to this row after the first paragraph (starting from "An
    executable Process" through "included in a non-executable Process.")
    (f) Add paragraph at end:
    "For public processes, no value has the same semantics as if the value were false. The value may not be true for public processes."
    In the following tables and rows, in the right column, replace all occurrences of "processType" with "isExecutable" and and all occurrences
    of "executable" with "true".
    (g) Table 10.3 (Activity attributes and model associations), loopCharacteristics row.
    (h) Table 10.88 (ConditionalEventDefinition model associations), condition row.
    Table 10.89 (ErrorEventDefinition attributes and model associations), errorCode row.
    (j) Table 10.90 (EscalationEventDefinition attributes and model associations), escalationCode and timeCycle rows.
    (k) Table 10.92 (MessageEventDefinition model associations), messageRef.
    (l) In Section 10.8 (Process Instances, Unmodeled Activities, and Public Processes), second bullet, next to last sentence, replace "executable or non-executable" with
    "private".
    In Table 10.129 (Process XML schema):
    (m) In tProcessType element, replace enumeration values "executable" and "non-executable" with a single value "private ".
    Add element after processType for isExecutable boolean attribute, no default: <xsd:attribute name="isExecutable" type="xsd:boolean"/>
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Complex gateway merging rule in choreography too restrictive

  • Key: BPMN2-118
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14655
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    The rule fo merging complex gateway in choreography is

    "In order to enforce the synchronizing merge of the Gateway, the
    senders or receivers Choreography Activities preceding the Gateway
    need to be the same Participant. This ensures that the merge can be
    enforced."

    but if the sender of the activity after the gateway participates in the
    activties before the gateway, and has access to the complex decision
    data, then it has everything needed to perform the synchronization.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The quote in the issue is from the inclusive gateway, rather than the
    complex merge.
    In the Choreography chapter, in section Gateways, subsection Inclusive
    Gateway, under the third paragraph, first bullet, second subbullet (the
    one beginning "Merge:"), in the sentence immediately after the colon
    (the one beginning "In order to enforce"), replace the portion of the
    sentence after the comma with:
    the sender of the Choreography Activity after the Gateway must
    participate in the Choreography Activities immediately preceding the
    gateway.
    In the Choreography chapter, in section Gateways, subsection Inclusive
    Gateway, in the paragraph just above the first figure, third sentence,
    replace the portion of the sentence after the comma with:
    the initiator of Choreography Activities immediately following the
    Gateway participates in the Choreography Activities immediately
    preceding the Gateway.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Conversation/Process switch

  • Key: BPMN2-121
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14660
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Section 8.3.3 (Correlation), first bullet says "dispatched to this
    particular Conversation". This should describe dispatching to a process
    instance, there are no conversation instances. Another example is in
    the CorrelationKey paragraph under Figure 8-18 (The Correlation Class
    Diagram). Might be other places in the spec refering to conversations as
    if they were executed.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 8.3.3
    > Subsection "CorrelationKey", first paragraph
    Original
    For each Message that is received within a particular Conversation, the CorrelationProperties need to provide a CorrelationPropertyRetrievalExpression which
    references a FormalExpression to the Message payload.
    Proposal
    For each Message that is exchanged as part of a particular Conversation, the CorrelationProperties need to provide a CorrelationPropertyRetrievalExpression which
    references a FormalExpression to the Message payload.
    > Subsection "Key-based Correlation", first paragraph
    Original
    Messages will be routed to the Conversation whose extracted composite key matches the respective CorrelationKey instance.
    Proposal
    Messages are associated to a particular Conversation if the composite key extracted from their payload matches the CorrelationKey initialized for this Conversation.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Key-based Correlation => ?

  • Key: BPMN2-113
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14649
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Key-based correlation could have a better name, because context-based
    correlation (subscription) also uses keys, it just enables values for
    process keys to change over time. Perhaps the term could be "static
    correlation", meaning the values of process properties do not change
    over time (though values and keys can be added). BTW, "context-based"
    for subscription is equally vague. How about static vs dynamic
    correlation?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The terms "key-based" and "context-based" are common in the area of
    correlation, it's best to leave them as they are.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Correlation Class Diagram missing Process association

  • Key: BPMN2-120
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14659
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Figure 8-18 (The Correlation Class Diagram) is missing the association
    between CorrelationSubscription and Process that appears in Table 8-35
    (CorrelationSubscription model associations).

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of this issue is covered by 14685 OMG-14685
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Promote correlationKeys association to ConversationContainer

  • Key: BPMN2-119
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14658
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    correlationKeys is on Conversation and Subconversation in Figure 8-18
    (The Correlation Class Diagram). Promote it to ConversationContainer

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 14654 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Cardinality of the "sourceRef" association between DataAssociation and ItemAwareElement

  • Key: BPMN2-220
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14819
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    See figure 10.61. The "sourceRef" assocation.

    The cardinality on the DataAssociation end is 1. This tells me that any given DataAwareElement must be the source of exactly one DataAssociation.

    This doesn't work:

    • DataAwareElement are not required to participate in data associations.
    • Data Objects can be the source of multiple data associations.

    So the cardinality should be 0..n

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Replace Figure 10.61. See here in particular, the corrected cardinality (circled in red):
    (10583_MM_DataAssociation.jpg)
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Unclear/contradictory handling of visualized Data Inputs/Outputs

  • Key: BPMN2-219
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14818
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    The spec does not provide much clarification on how the Data Inputs/Outputs notation is used.

    As an example, consider a process that is calling another process. The called process has Data Inputs and Data Outputs.

    If I create a data association from the calling process to the Call Activity, clearly the target of that data association would be a data input of the called process.
    And yet the spec states that:

    • DataInputs MUST NOT have incoming DataAssociations.
      So, there's a contradiction here. DataAssociations do and should target DataInputs.

    Or, is that statement intended to describe visualization of the DataAssociation (i.e. the DataAssociation visually stops at the CallActivity boundary and does not visually connect to the Data Input, even if it is actually connected in the semantic model)?

    If the latter, why not allow the Data Association to connect to the Data Inputs? Doing so would result in a more explicit visualization of the underlying semantics. If I had multiple Data Inputs, I would be able to tell at a glance which Data Input is being targetted by which Data Association.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    1. Pdf pg 221, section titled "Data Inputs". Replace entire second paragraph (including sub-bullets) with the following:
    [See word doc for formatted version: 10_process-data_updatedFor317.doc]
    The Data Input is an item-aware element. Data Inputs may be visualized in a Process diagram to show the inputs to the top-level Process or to show the inputs of a
    called Process (i.e. one that is referenced by a Call Activity, where the Call Activity has been expanded to show the called Process within the context of a calling
    Process).

    • Visualized DataInputs have the same notation as DataObjects, except MUST contain a small, unfilled block arrow (see Figure 10.55).
    • DataInputs MAY have incoming DataAssociations.
    • If the Data Input is directly contained by the top-level Process, it MUST NOT be the target of Data Associations within the underlying model. Only Data
      Inputs that are contained by Activities or Events may be the target of Data Associations in the model.
    • If the Process is being called from a Call Activity, the Data Associations that target the data inputs of the Call Activity in the underlying model may be
      visualized such that they connect to the corresponding data inputs of the called Process, visually crossing the Call Activity boundary. But note that this is visualization
      only. In the underlying model, the Data Associations target the data inputs of the Call Activity and not the data inputs of the called Process.
      2. Pdf pg 223, section titled "Data Outputs". Replace entire second paragraph (including sub-bullets) with the following:
      [See word doc for formatted version: 10_process-data_updatedFor317.doc]
      The DataOutput is an item-aware element. DataOutput elements may be visualized in a Process diagram to show the outputs of the top-level Process, or to show the
      outputs of a called Process (i.e. one that is referenced by a Call Activity, where the Call Activity has been expanded to show the called Process within the context of a
      calling Process)..
    • Visualized DataOutputs have the same notation as DataObjects, except MUST contain a small, filled block arrow (see Figure 10.57).
    • DataOutputs MAY have outgoing DataAssociations.
    • If the Data Output is directly contained by the top-level Process, it MUST NOT be the source of Data Associations within the underlying model. Only Data
      Outputs that are contained by Activities or Events may be the source of Data Associations in the model.
    • If the Process is being called from a Call Activity, the Data Associations that originate from the data outputs of the Call Activity in the underlying model may
      be visualized such that they connect from the corresponding data outputs of the called Process, visually crossing the Call Activity boundary. But note that this is
      visualization only. In the underlying model, the Data Associations originate from the data outputs of the Call Activity and not the data outputs of the called Process
      Disposition: Resolved
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Data Inputs/Outputs on Subprocesses

  • Key: BPMN2-218
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14817
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    The spec isn't clear on the relationship between visual Data Inputs/Outputs and embedded subprocesses.

    Pg 191 states that "DataInput elements may appear in a Process diagram to show the inputs the Process as a whole ...". There's a similar statement on pg. 193 for Data Outputs.

    The phrase "the Process as a whole" almost reads like visualized Data Inputs/Outputs are only applicable to Processes (and not to embedded subprocesses).

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Modify/include the following text to chapter 10.3 - "Data Input and Output", directly before Figure 10.8:
    Not every Activity type defines inputs and outputs, only Tasks, CallableElements (Global Tasks and Processes) MAY define their data requirements. Embedded
    MUST NOT define Data Inputs and Data Outputs directly, however they MAY define them indirectly via Multi Instance Loop Characteristics.
    Modify/include the following text to chapter 10.2.8 - "Multi-Instance Characteristics":
    Table 10.3 - MultiInstanceLoopCharacteristics attributes and model associations
    loopDataInputRef: ItemAwareElement [0..1]
    This ItemAwareElement is used to determine the number of Activity instances, one Activity instance per item in the collection of data stored in that ItemAwareElement
    element.
    For Tasks it is a reference to a DataInput which is part of the Activity's InputOutputSpecification.
    For Sub Processes it is a reference to a collection-valued DataObject in the context that is visible to the Sub Process.
    In order to initialize a valid multi-instance, either the loopCardinality Expression or the loopDataInput MUST be specified.
    loopDataOutputRef: ItemAwareElement [0..1]
    This ItemAwareElement specifies the collection of data, which will be produced by the multi-instance.
    For Tasks it is a reference to a DataOutput which is part of the Activity's InputOutputSpecification.
    For Sub Processes it is a reference to a collection-valued DataObject in the context that is visible to the Sub Process.
    inputDataItem: DataInput [0..1]
    A DataInput, representing for every Activity instance the single item of the collection stored in the loopDataInput. This DataInput can be the source of
    DataInputAssociation to a data input of the Activity's InputOutputSpecification. The type of this DataInput MUST the scalar of the type defined for the loopDataInput.
    outputDataItem: DataOutput [0..1]
    A DataOutput, representing for every Activity instance the single item of the collection stored in the loopDataOutput. This DataOutput can be the target of
    DataOutputAssociation to a data output of the Activity's InputOutputSpecification. The type of this DataOutput MUST the scalar of the type defined for the
    loopDataOutput.
    Table 10.37 - MultiInstanceLoopCharacteristics XML schema
    (change loopDataInput to loopDataInputRef with new type QName; change loopDataOutput to loopDataOutputRef with new type QName; change of inputDataItem
    to type tDataInput; change of outputDataItem to type tDataOutput)
    <xsd:complexType name="tMultiInstanceLoopCharacteristics">
    <xsd:complexContent>
    <xsd:extension base="tLoopCharacteristics">
    <xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:element name="loopCardinality" type="tExpression" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
    <xsd:element name="loopDataInputRef" type="xsd:QName" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
    <xsd:element name="loopDataOutputRef" type="xsd:QName" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
    <xsd:element name="inputDataItem" type="tDataInput" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
    <xsd:element name="outputDataItem" type="tDataOutput" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
    <xsd:element ref="complexBehaviorDefinition" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    <xsd:element name="completionCondition" type="tExpression" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:attribute name="isSequential" type="xsd:boolean" default="false"/>
    <xsd:attribute name="behavior" type="tMultiInstanceFlowCondition" default="all"/>
    <xsd:attribute name="oneBehaviorEventRef" type="xsd:QName" use="optional"/>
    <xsd:attribute name="noneBehaviorEventRef" type="xsd:QName" use="optional"/>
    </xsd:extension>
    </xsd:complexContent>
    </xsd:complexType>
    Note: The attached diff from Tammo is not complete, so better use the schema above.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Can a sub-process (embedded) have Lanes?

  • Key: BPMN2-213
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14803
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Oracle ( Meera Srinivasan)
  • Summary:

    ##Source: Oracle (Meera Srinivasan, meera.srinivasan@oracle.com)
    ##Original Issue: http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-59
    ##Original Info: (Severity: Significant - Nature: Enhancement)

    Section 10.2.5, Page 152 (page 182 in PDF)

    Can a sub-process (embedded) have Lanes? My understanding is no. Can the specification clarify this clearly?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Move the laneSets attribute from Process to FlowElementContainer:
    (a) Table 10.1, page 124 (154 pdf): remove 4th row from table (laneSets)
    (b) Table 8.46, page 78 (108 pdf): add the following row to the table:
    laneSets: LaneSet [0..*] || This attribute defines the list of LaneSets used in the Flow Element Container (e.g., Process, Sub-Process). LaneSets are not used for
    Choreographies or Sub-Choreographies."
    (c) Section 9.2.1, page 117 (147 pdf): replace the first sentence in section with the following: "A Lane is a sub-partition within a Process (often within a Pool) or Sub-
    Process and will extend the entire length of the Process level, either vertically or horizontally."
    (d) Section 10.7, page 282 (312 pdf): replace the first sentence in section with the following: "A Lane is a sub-partition within a Process (often within a Pool) or Sub-
    Process and will extend the entire length of the Process level, either vertically (see figure XX) or horizontally (see figure XX)."
    (e) Section 10.7, page 282 (312 pdf): remove second sentence in section.
    (f) Figure 10.122, page 285 (315 pdf): replace figure to show the change in the laneSet attribute
    (g) Table 10.43, page 181 (211 pdf): add the "laneSet" element to the Sub-Process schema snippet. Also add this element to the BPMN XSD.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section 10.2.3 ScriptTask.scriptLanguage needs to specify format

  • Key: BPMN2-212
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14801
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Mr. Matthias Kloppmann)
  • Summary:

    Description of issue: The scriptLanguage is currently specified to be a String, this risks clashes across different implementations. It should either be required to be an URI, or an example should suggest this to be an URI.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    1. expressionLanguage, typeLanguage
    a. Spec tables 8.1 (Definitions), 8.44 (FormalExpression)
    Add the following to the descriptions for the expressionLanguage and typeLanguage attributes: "The language must be specified in a URI format."
    There are no changes to the XSD or UML metamodel.
    2. scriptLanguage
    a. Change the name of the attribute to "scriptFormat". Applies to the XSD, UML metamodel, and spec (table 10.10).
    b. The type of the attribute will consistently be "string". Impacts the XSD only. The UML metamodel and spec currently use "string".
    c. Replace the description of the attribute in table 10.10 with: Defines the format of the script. This attribute value must be specified with a mime-type format. And it
    must be specified if a script is provided.
    d. Replace figure 10.10
    e. Update the XSD snippet in table 10.35
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section 12.4.1 [Choreo] How many message flows per choreography task? Missing meta-model

  • Key: BPMN2-215
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14805
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Mr. Matthias Kloppmann)
  • Summary:

    Description of issue: The text reads "A choreography task ... represents a coherent set of Message exchanges." Neither "coherent" nor "set" is further detailed, nor is a schema shown that clarifies the relationship between Choreography Task and Message Flow.

    Proposal: Provide further explanation of "coherent set", and provide meta-model for Choreography Task.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 14890 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section 8.3.15 [Choreo] ParticipantMultiplicity must allow to specify 1..2, possibly also 0..1

  • Key: BPMN2-214
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14804
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Mr. Matthias Kloppmann)
  • Summary:

    Description of issue: The attributes minimum and maximum are mandated to have a min value of 2. Why would multiplicities such as 1..2 be excluded? Couldn't there even be optional participants?

    Proposal: At the very least, the minimum attribute should allowed to have a minimum of 1. Possibly, minimum should be allowed to start at 0, and maximum at 1.

    Comments:
    From: wstephe created: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:19:42 -0500 (CDT)
    The section, table, and page numbers were updated to match the Beta 1 Spec.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    8.3.15 Participants
    p94
    "When the minimum attribute of the ParticipantMultiplicty element has been set by the modeler, then the multiinstance
    marker will be displayed in bottom center of the Pool (Participant - see Figure 8-41) or the Participant Band
    of a Choreography Activity (see page 356)."
    change to:
    "The multi-instance marker will be displayed in bottom center of the Pool (Participant - see Figure 8-41), or the Participant Band of a Choreography Activity (see page
    356), when the ParticipantMultiplicity is associated with the Participant, and the maximum attribute is either not set, or has a value of two (2) or more."
    Table 8.56 ParticipantMultiplicity attributes
    Change from "minimum: integer [0..1] = 2" to "minimum: integer = 0" - mandatory with default value of 0
    with suitable update to schema.
    "The minimum attribute defines minimum number of Participants that
    MUST be involved in the Collaboration. The value of minimum MUST be
    two (2) or greater."
    change to:
    "The minimum attribute defines minimum number of Participants that
    MUST be involved in the Collaboration. If a value is specified in the
    maximum attribute, it MUST be greater or equal to this minimum value."
    Change from "maximum: integer [0..1] = 2" to "maximum: integer [0..1] = 1" - optional with default value of 1.
    "The maximum attribute defines maximum number of Participants that
    MAY be involved in the Collaboration. The value of maximum MUST be
    two (2) or greater."
    change to:
    "The maximum attribute defines maximum number of Participants that
    MAY be involved in the Collaboration. The value of maximum MUST be
    one (1) or greater, AND must be equal or greater than the minimum value."
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section 10.5.1/10.5.6 Need to clarify how initiating gateway is specifed: via sequence flow, attribute, or both

  • Key: BPMN2-211
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14799
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Mr. Matthias Kloppmann)
  • Summary:

    Description of issue: Section 8.4.1 states that a gateway's behavior is performed at instantiation time of the process if there is a gateway with no incoming sequence flow (top of p. 126). However, section 8.4.6 introduces an "instantiate" flag for Event-base Gateways, which seems to have the exact same purpose (table 8-85 on p. 128). These two ways of tying process instantiation and gateway execution together need to be reconciled.

    Proposal: Preferably, get rid of the instantiate flag and allow the behavior described in 8.4.1 for all gateways, including the event-based gateway. Alternatively, introduce an instantiate flag for all gateways (or for those where it makes sense), and describe the relationship between no incoming sequence flow and the flag.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 10.2.3, Sub-Section Receive Tasks, page 139 (169 pdf):
    (a) delete the three bullets on page.
    (b) Third paragraph: replace the second sentence of the paragraph with the following: "In order for the Task to instantiate the Process its instantiate attribute must be set
    to true and it must not have any incoming Sequence Flow."
    (c) Last paragraph on page: add the following to the paragraph: "If the instantiate attribute is set to true, the envelope marker looks like a Message Start Event (as
    shown in Figure 10.X)."
    (d) Add new figure after Figure 10.15 that shows the instantiate version of the Receive Task (see
    (10698_New+Icon+for+Instantiating+Receive+Task.jpg)
    ), which is a Task with a marker that looks like a small Message Start Event.
    (e) The new Figure will have the following caption: "A Receive Task Object that instantiates a Process"
    (f) Table 10.10, second row, second column: delete "after the Start Event or a starting Task if there is no Start Event"
    Section 10.5.6:
    (g) Delete the first three bullets after Figure 10.114
    (h) First paragraph after Figure 10.114: replace "meet one of the following conditions:' with "not have any incoming Sequence Flow."
    Section 14.1, Second paragraph, First sentence:
    Replace "Event-Based Gateway" with "Event-Based Gateway or a Receive Task"
    (j) Replace "Instantiate flag is true" with "instantiate flag set to true"
    (k) Section 14.2.3, Bullet for Receive Task: Add the following to the bullet: "If the Receive Task's instantiate attribute is set to true, the Receive Task itself can start a
    new Process instance."
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Formalizing the Source-Target relationships between Link Intermediate Event

  • Key: BPMN2-217
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14816
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Currently, there is no formalized way to relate Throw Link Events with their corresponding Catch Link Event(s). The spec briefly mentions that their names must be the same, but names are unreliable.

    • There is no constraint on names, so I could create multiple Catch Link Events with the same name, thus breaking the model.
    • Names are not used, in general throughout the spec, for formalizing relationships. Instead IDs are.
    • Users do sometimes assign different names to the Throw and Catch (for example "A" for the throw and "from A" for the catch).

    Recommendation: Add an explicit assocation from the Throw Link Event to the Catch Link Event

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Add a new bidirectional association to the LinkEventDefinition.
    (Updated+Link+Event+Metamodel.jpg)
    If the LinkEventDefinition represents a 'throw' or 'source' link event, it will reference 1 LinkEventDefinitions representing the corresponding 'catch' or 'target' link event.
    If the LinkEventDefinition represents a 'catch' or 'target' link event, it will reference 1 or more LinkEventDefinitions representing the corresponding 'throw' or 'source'
    link events.
    Spec updates:
    (a) - Update Figure 10.70 to add new bidirectional association to the LinkEventDefinition class:
    (Updated+Link+Event+Metamodel.jpg)

    • Add two new associations to Table 10.91:
      (b) sources: Used to reference the corresponding 'catch' or 'target' LinkEventDefinitions, when this LinkEventDefinition represents a 'throw' or 'source'
      LinkEventDefinition.
      (c) target: Used to reference the corresponding 'throw' or 'source' LinkEventDefinition, when this LinkEventDefinition represents a 'catch' or 'target'
      LinkEventDefinition.
      Corresponding additions will be made to the BPMN XSD.
      Disposition: Resolved
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Allow Choreographies within a Conversation Diagram

  • Key: BPMN2-216
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14809
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Currently, Choreographies are not allowed between the Pools of a Conversation diagram. However, this capability would be very useful for some modeling problems, such as the linking of BPMN diagrams to SoaML

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 14654 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

General [Metamodel] Double-check attributes that are enumerated types, and their extensibility needs

  • Key: BPMN2-210
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14798
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Mr. Matthias Kloppmann)
  • Summary:

    Description of issue: The meta-model contains attributes that are conceptually enumerated types. Sometimes their set of values needs to be extensible, sometimes their set of values is closed within the scope of the spec. The spec needs a consistent approach for both types of enums.

    Proposal: Presumably, enums with a closed list should be defined as enums in the metamodel, while enums that are extensible should be defined as string. Better ways to render this may exist. The outcome of the decision must be applied consistently throughout the spec

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The FTF has reviewed the list of attributes through the resolution of multiple issues. No further work is required on this topic.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section 9.2: Pool description needs revisiting

  • Key: BPMN2-209
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14797
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Description of issue: Page 114 (144 in PDF) states that a "Pool acts as the container for a Process". This is not true. Pools simply reference Processes.

    Proposal: Rewording to something like: A Pool may have internal details, in the form of the Process that will be executed. Or a Pool may have no internal details, i.e., it can be a "black box".

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    1) in Page 22 Table 7.1 BPMN Modeling Elements
    Original Text
    A Pool is the graphical representation of a Participant in a Collaboration (see page 146). It is also acts as a "swimlane" and a graphical container for partitioning a set of
    Activities from other Pools, usually in the context of B2B situations.
    Append the following to the original text
    A Pool may have internal details, in the form of the Process that will be executed. Or a Pool may have no internal details, i.e., it can be a "black box".
    (2) in Page 144 Section 9.2 - Pool and Participant
    Replace the following text:
    Graphically, a Pool is a container for partitioning a Process from other Pools
    with this:
    A Pool may or may not reference a Process.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Data Inputs the target of multiple Data Associations

  • Key: BPMN2-221
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14820
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Can a single Data Input be the target of multiple Data Associations? The spec does not explicitly disallow this.

    What would be the outcome of executing this model - would the last data association defined always overwrite the results of executing prior ones?

    Is there a use-case or scenario where this produces meaning results, or should this pattern be disallowed?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Add the following paragraph after the last paragraph in Section 10.3.2 Execution Semantics for Data
    Once an InputSet becomes "available", all DataAssociations whose target is any of the DataInputs of the InputSet are executed. These executions fill the Activity
    DataInputs and the execution of the Activity can begin.
    When an Activity finishes execution, all DataAssociations whose sources are any of the DataOutputs of the OutputSet are executed. These executions copy the values
    from the DataOutputs back to the container's context (DataObjects, Properties, etc).
    Execution Semantics for DataAssociation
    The execution of any DataAssociation must follow these semantics:
    a) If the DataAssociation specifies a "transformation" Expression, this expression is evaluated and the result is copied to the targetRef. This operation replaces
    completely the previous value of the targetRef element.
    b) For each "assignment" element specified:
    ) Evaluate the Assignment's "from" expression and obtain the *source value
    ) Evaluate the Assignment's "to" expression and obtain the *target element. The target element can be any element in the context or a sub-element of it (e.g. a
    DataObject or a sub-element of it).
    ) Copy the *source value to the target element.
    c) If no "transformation" Expression nor any "assignment" elements are defined in the DataAssociation:
    *) copy the DataAssociation "sourceRef" value into the "targetRef". Only one sourceRef element is allowed in this case.

    Add the following sentence in Section 14.2.2 Activity, at the end of the bullet that starts with "When some data InputSet becomes available,"
    Please refer to section 10.3.2 for a description of the execution semantics for DataAssociations.
    "
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Default execution semantics for an activity with multiple incoming branches needs to be clarified

  • Key: BPMN2-208
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14795
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Oracle ( Vishal Saxena)
  • Summary:

    The current execution semantics apparently implies that the said activity with two incoming connections will be executed twice. Instead it should be a merge semantics that is the activity is executed once when token arrives on both branches.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The proposal in the issue description is in conflict with start events on the boundary of a sub-process as explained above and also conflicts compatibility with BPMN
    1.1. Thus, we propose to close with no change.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Are Conditional Start Events executable?

  • Key: BPMN2-133
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14680
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Are ConditionalStartEvents executable? What data are they able to access?

    Note that the spec states that executable ConditionalStartEvents must have a FormalExpression. So the spec implies they are executable. But it doesn't provide guidance on what data context would be provided for that FormalExpression.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 10.4.2 Start Event
    Table 10.3 - Top-Level Process Start Event Types
    Change row: Conditional
    Original (Description column)
    This type of event is triggered when a Condition such as "S&P 500 changes by more than 10% since opening", or "Temperature above 300C" become true. The
    Condition Expression for the Event must become false and then true before the Event can be triggered again.
    If there is only one (1) EventDefinition associated with the Start Event and that EventDefinition is of the subclass ConditionalEventDefinition, then the Event is a
    Conditional Start Event and MUST be displayed with a lined paper marker (see the figure to the right).
    Proposal (Description column)
    This type of event is triggered when a Condition such as "S&P 500 changes by more than 10% since opening", or "Temperature above 300C" become true. The
    Condition Expression for the Event must become false and then true before the Event can be triggered again.
    The Condition Expression of a Conditional Start Event MUST NOT refer to the data context or instance attribute of the process (as the Process instance has not yet
    been created). Instead, it may refer to static process attributes and states of entities in the environment. The specification of mechanisms to access such states is out of
    scope of the standard.
    If there is only one (1) EventDefinition associated with the Start Event and that EventDefinition is of the subclass ConditionalEventDefinition, then the Event is a
    Conditional Start Event and MUST be displayed with a lined paper marker (see the figure to the right).
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Contradiction in constraint for Start Events in Event Subprocess

  • Key: BPMN2-132
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14679
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Apparent contradiction, assuming I'm reading the constraint right.

    The spec states that "An Event Sub-Process MUST have a single Start Event". I interpret this to mean exactly one.
    And yet the spec allows a Start Event with a Multiple or Parallel Multiple event definition. These are short-hand for multiple Start Events, each with a single event definition. Hence a contradiction in functionality and intent.

    Recommend updating the spec constraint to state "An Event Sub-Process MUST have at least one Start Event".

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This is not a problem with the specification, so we close with no change
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Error vs ErrorCode & Escalation vs EscalationCode

  • Key: BPMN2-129
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14676
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    The ErrorEventDefinition contains an errorCode and references an Error class. Wouldn't it make sense for errorCode to be moved into the Error class. I'd expect that all usages of that Error class would specify the same errorCode.

    Same pattern is there for Escalation.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Insert new subsection, under 8.3, for Escalation.
    An Escalation identifies a business situation that a process may need to react to.
    Insert Figure
    (Escalation_MM.jpg)
    The Escalation element inherits the attributes and model associations of Base Element through its relationship to RootElement.
    New table, with attributes
    name: The descriptive name of the escalation
    structureRef: An ItemDefinition that defines the payload of the escalation
    (b) Move the "errorCode" attribute from Table 10.89 to Table 8.43
    (c) Move the "escalationCode" attribute from Table 10.90 to new table for Escalation
    (d) Replace Figure 8.20 with
    (Error_MM.jpg)
    (e) Replace Figure 10.70 with
    (EventDefinitions_MM.jpg)
    (f) Replace Figure 10.75 with
    (ErrorEventDefinition_MM.jpg)
    (g) Replace Figure 10.77 with
    (EscalationEventDefinition_MM.jpg)
    (h) Table 8.64 (schema snippet): Updated XSD snippet to add the errorCode attribute to tError
    <xsd:element name="error" type="tError" substitutionGroup="rootElement"/>
    <xsd:complexType name="tError">
    <xsd:complexContent>
    <xsd:extension base="tRootElement">
    <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string"/>
    <xsd:attribute name="structureRef" type="xsd:QName"/>
    <xsd:attribute name="errorCode" type="xsd:string"/>
    </xsd:extension>
    </xsd:complexContent>
    </xsd:complexType>
    New table under 8.3.18, for the Escalation schema snippet
    <xsd:element name="escalation" type="tEscalation" substitutionGroup="rootElement"/>
    <xsd:complexType name="tEscalation">
    <xsd:complexContent>
    <xsd:extension base="tRootElement">
    <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string"/>
    <xsd:attribute name="structureRef" type="xsd:QName"/>
    <xsd:attribute name="escalationCode" type="xsd:string"/>
    </xsd:extension>
    </xsd:complexContent>
    </xsd:complexType>
    (j) Table 10.101: Updated XSD snippet to remove the errorCode attribute from tErrorEventDefinition
    <xsd:element name="errorEventDefinition" type="tErrorEventDefinition" substitutionGroup="eventDefinition"/>
    <xsd:complexType name="tErrorEventDefinition">
    <xsd:complexContent>
    <xsd:extension base="tEventDefinition">
    <xsd:attribute name="errorRef" type="xsd:QName"/>
    </xsd:extension>
    </xsd:complexContent>
    </xsd:complexType>
    (k) New table under 10.4.8, for the EscalationEventDefinition schema snippet
    <xsd:element name="escalationEventDefinition" type="tEscalationEventDefinition" substitutionGroup="eventDefinition"/>
    <xsd:complexType name="tEscalationEventDefinition">
    <xsd:complexContent>
    <xsd:extension base="tEventDefinition">
    <xsd:attribute name="escalationRef" type="xsd:QName"/>
    </xsd:extension>
    </xsd:complexContent>
    </xsd:complexType>
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Choreography Complex Gateway example

  • Key: BPMN2-125
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14670
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Section 12.6.5 (Complex Gateway) has a figure that doesn't match the
    text example

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Exchange Figure 12.48 with the diagram depicted here:
    (Compex+Gateway+in+Choreography+%28Choreography%29+Proposal+2010-04-20.png)
    (b) Exchange Figure 12.49 with the diagram depicted here:
    (Compex+Gateway+in+Choreography+%28Collaboration%29+Proposal+2010-04-20.png)
    (c) Section 12.7.5: Exchange the second paragraph:
    "Consider an e-tender which sends a request for quote to service providers (e.g., warehouse storage) in a marketplace. The e-tender Process sends out each request
    and anticipates a response through two Choreography Activities with a sequential flow between these. The request-response branches merge at a Complex Gateway to
    model the requirement that when 60% responses have arrived, an assessment of the tender can proceed. The assessment occurs after the Complex Gateway. If the
    assessment reports that the reserve amount indicated by the customer cannot be met, a new iteration of the tender is made. All up a maximum of 3 tenders is run. A key
    issue is to ensure that the responses should not be mixed across tender iterations."
    with the following text:
    "Consider an e-tender which sends a request for quote to multiple service providers (e.g., warehouse storage) in a marketplace. The e-tender Process sends out
    requests to each service provider and anticipates their response through three Choreography Activities. The response branches merge at a Complex Gateway to model
    the requirement that when 66% responses have arrived, an assessment of the tender can proceed. The assessment occurs after the Complex Gateway. If the
    assessment reports that the reserve amount indicated by the customer cannot be met, a new iteration of the tender is made. A key issue is to ensure that the responses
    should not be mixed across tender iterations. A Terminate End Event ensures that all activities are terminated, when a tender has been successful."
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Exclusive gateways in choreography cover splitting but not merging

  • Key: BPMN2-124
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14665
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    The section on exclusive gateways in choreography covers splitting but not merging gateways

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of this issue is covered by 14656 OMG-14656
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Fix difference between MessageFlowNode definition in specification vs the semantic.xmi file

  • Key: BPMN2-128
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14675
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    From Mohamed Keshk (via email):

    In "Semantic.xmi" file, the only sub-classes of "MessageFlowNode" are: Task, Event, and Participant.

    While in pdf specs, page 122, first section entitled with "MessageFlowNode", first paragraph, the following is written:
    "Only the Pool/Participant, Activity, and Event elements can connect to Message Flow and thus, these elements are the only ones that are sub-classes of MessageFlowNode".

    Am I missing something here, or some changes should be made?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The elements listed in the schema are correct. If a Task or Event is contained within a Sub-Process that is collapsed, then the tool will be able to derived that the
    connection should be redirected to the boundary of the Sub-Process.
    Am I missing something here, or some changes should be made?
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Meaning of + symbol on Communication undefined

  • Key: BPMN2-127
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14672
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Sections 11.4 and 11.5 don't defined the meaning of + symbol on
    Communication. I thought it meant the expansion included at least one
    communication. If this is the definition, then Figure 11-3 has a nested
    communication symbol for Delivery Negotiations, but Figure 11-4 expands
    it without a communication.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The definition given by the filer appears under Figure 11.4, but it is incorrect. The plus sign only indicates the presence of a SubConversation, or CallConversation to a
    Collaboraton, as described in those sections.
    In the paragraph under Figure 11.4 (Conversational view choreographies), next to last sentence, starting with "to alert", replace the rest of the sentence with ", indicating
    a Sub-Conversation or a CallConversation calling a Collaboration."
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Mention of "isInterrupting" attribute still in the spec

  • Key: BPMN2-131
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14678
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Spec v0.9.14.

    Section 14.4.4 (Execution Semantics) mentions the "isInterrupting" attribute. This attribute was renamed to "cancelActivity".

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue was based on an earlier draft of the specification and is no longer valid. Thus, we will close.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Incorrect description for the Transaction.protocol attribute

  • Key: BPMN2-130
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14677
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Spec v0.9.14. Table 10-21 contains an incorrect description for the Transaction.protocol attribute.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue is a duplicate of issue OMG 14750 (14750)
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section 11 Conversation: Fix Conversation figures for proper notation for Pools

  • Key: BPMN2-135
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14682
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The figures of the Conversation show the Pools without the proper notation (as defined in <a href="http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-305" title="V0.5.6: Section 9 Collaboration [Choreography; Specification, Metamodel]: Pool and lane. Provide distinct shapes since their semantics are so different">BPMN-305</a>). These should be fixed. There are also two figures in the Collaboration chapter that also need fixing.

    Comments:
    From: wstephe created: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:14:29 -0500 (CDT)
    Version number removed from summary so that it will apply to the Beta 1 spec

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close this issue as a duplicate of 14250.
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Merge Conversation and Collaboration

  • Key: BPMN2-136
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14684
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Conversation and Collaboration currently differ because Conversation
    messages can grouped, and Conversation can be reused. Since these
    capabilities are useful on collaboration, it would be simpler for users
    and implementers to merge these diagrams. Then there would be two
    interactions diagrams, one highlighting communication between
    participants (collaboration/conversation) and one highlighting the
    sequence of message flow (Choreography). This would be easier to
    explain and reduce the terminology complexity of the "three C models".

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close this issue as a duplicate.
    The resolution of issue 14641 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Correlation Key & Correlation Properties are missing 'name' attributes

  • Key: BPMN2-134
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14681
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    I'd think that CorrelationKey at a minimum needs a name.
    I'm not too sure that CorrelationProperty does, but give it is a RootElement, a name might be prudent.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Duplicate. This issue will be resolved through the disposition of Issue 14721 (JIRA 14721).
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

isClosed on Conversation

  • Key: BPMN2-126
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14671
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    isClosed is on Collabration and Choreography, but not Conversation. It
    should be promoted to Interaction

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 14654 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Property name mismatch between Spec and Schema for Item Definition

  • Key: BPMN2-230
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14859
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The MM and spec shows ItemDefinition with a property named "structure." The schema names this property "structureRef." These two should be synchronized. Mostly likely, the spec and MM should be changed.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Update the UML metamodel, renaming ItemDefinition.structure to structureRef
    Replace Figures 8.20, 8.22, 8.27, 8.34, 10.47, 10.48, 10.52, 10.53, 10.56, 10.58, 10.61, 10.70, 10.75, 10.77, 10.84, 10.89
    (b) Update Table 8.49 (pg 113)
    Rename structure to structureRef
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

"isInterrupting" attribute of Start Events

  • Key: BPMN2-229
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14858
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    The "isInterrupting" attribute is introduced in the start events to deal with the possible non interrupting nature of start events in the context of Event Sub-processes. It is to be ignored for other Start Events.

    A few issues:
    In Table 10-112 on page 294. The schema snippet is missing the "isInterrupting" attribute.

    In Table 10-80 on page 251 the isInterrupting attribute has no default value whereas the semantic.xsd file does set it by default to "false"

    Should we remove the default value from the schema or should we set the "isInterrupting" attribute to "true" by default so that if that attribute is pushed in the context of a normal start event the proper depiction will be rendered. (Eventhough it should have been ignored..)

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Table 10.80, first row, first column: add " = true"
    (b) Table 10.122, replace "<xsd:extension base="tCatchEvent"/>" with the following:
    "<xsd:extension base="tCatchEvent">
    <xsd:attribute name="isInterrupting" type="xsd:boolean" default="true"/>
    </xsd:extension>"
    (c) change the default of the isInterrupting attribute to true in the schema and metamodel
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Event marker quality is poor

  • Key: BPMN2-224
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14826
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    The markers that appear in the Beta spec are of really poor quality (they look almost hand-drawn). They have a negative impact on the overall quality of the spec.
    See table 10.86 for examples, but really is prevalent in a lot of the markers throughout the document.

    Note that the same markers in prior versions (e.g. the v0.9.14) were of much greater quality. Somehow the marker quality degraded, probably an accidental side-effect of some sort of document conversion

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    ALL images were updated with replacements of adequate resolution, we are not including specific diagrams because most of the were updated based on the
    resolutions of other issues.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Persistent versus transient event trigger

  • Key: BPMN2-223
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14823
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: VDMbee ( Mr. Henk de Man)
  • Summary:

    Define for intermediate messages (intermediate event trigger) if the message should be persisted in the process scope when the intermediate message is not yet active.

    (See also workflow patterns from van der Aalst; e.g. http://www.workflowpatterns.com/evaluations/standard/index.php and
    http://www.workflowpatterns.com/patterns/control/new/wcp24.php
    ).

    It relates to e.g. the following on page 226 in the BPMN 2.0 Beta 1 specification:

    “If the Event is used to “catch” the Event Trigger, then the token will remain at the Event until the Trigger occurs (e.g., the Message is received).”

    Differentiation is required between whether one wants to persist (or "defer") the trigger, or whether one wants to "lose" the trigger when the process is not yet in state to react.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue cannot be fixed in this FTF.
    Disposition: Closed, Out Of Scope

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Reference ProcessRef missing in Figure 8.40 - The Participant Class Diagram

  • Key: BPMN2-232
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14863
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: SAP SE ( Rouven Day)
  • Summary:

    In the class diagram for Participant (Figure 8.40 - The Participant Class Diagram) the reference to a Process is missing.
    In the list of attributes it is available but not in the diagram.
    Since this is a very prominent reference, it should also be visible in the class diagram.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Beta 1, August 2009 (pdf version)
    Make the following change in the specification: Update figure "The Participant Class Diagram" (figure 8.40 in Beta 1, draft 1) to include class "Process" and association
    (s) between the Participant and Process classes.
    This is important as table "Participant attributes and model associations" (table 8.53, in Beta 1, draft 1) defines attribute processRef, but it is not shown in figure 8.40.
    No MM and XSD updates are necessary.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

The Message element structureRef association should be renamed to itemRef

  • Key: BPMN2-231
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14860
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The Message element has an association named "structureRef," which points to the ItemDefinition element. It should be renamed "itemRef."

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Replace Figure 8.34 (pg 116)
    Update the UML metamodel, renaming Message.structureRef to itemRef
    (b) Update Table 8.50 (pg 116)
    Rename structureRef to itemRef
    (c) Update Table 8.71 (pg 134) - XSD snippet
    Rename structureRef to itemRef
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Execution semantics for Data Objects and Properties must be enhanced to properly describe concurrent modification situat

  • Key: BPMN2-234
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14877
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Object Management Group ( Mr. Mariano Benitez)
  • Summary:

    Does it make sense to describe the runtime behaviour of updating DataObjects and/or Properties by different executions?

    Should we leave this up to interpretations by implementers? Should we describe the expected behaviour or multiple executions updating the same DataObject/Property. This is specially important for multi-instance activities

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This is considered to be an enhancement.
    Disposition: Closed, Out Of Scope

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Does CallChoreography need a MessageFlowAssociation?

  • Key: BPMN2-233
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14869
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Choreographies contain Message Flow. The CallChoreographyActivity will call another Choreography or a GlobalChoreographyTask, both of which have there own Message Flow. There are similar relationships to Participant. A CallChoreographyActivity has a ParticipantAssociation, so it should also have a MessageFlowAssociation or should not have the ParticipantAssociation.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The Message Flow within the called Choreography will not be used or interact within the calling Choreography, so no mapping is required. Thus, there is no change
    required to the specification.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Called conversations without keys of the caller

  • Key: BPMN2-226
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14833
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Called conversations might have messages that don't have the correlation keys of the caller. Clarify whether this is allowed or not.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 3 Dec 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Called collaborations can have messages that don't have the correlation
    keys of the caller. The internal structure of messages is not specified
    in BPMN, but correlation keys applying to message flow establish
    property requirements on the contents of the message. The correlation
    keys applying to a message flow are all the keys of the containers of
    the message flow, including containers transitively through calls of
    collaborations or choreographies.
    Above Figure 8.18 (The Correlation Class Diagram) insert a new
    paragraph:
    Correlation can be applied to message flows in Collaboration and
    Choreography, as described in Chapters XXXCollaboration and
    XXXChoreography. The keys applying to a message flow are the keys of
    containers or groupings of the message flow, such as Collaborations,
    Choreographies, and Conversation Nodes, and Choreography Activities.
    This might result in multiple correlation keys applying to the same
    message flow, perhaps due to multiple layers of containment. In
    particular, calls of Collaborations and Choreographies are special
    kinds of Conversation Nodes and Choreography Activities, respectively,
    and are considered a kind of containment for the purposes of
    correlation. The correlation keys specified in the caller apply to
    message flow in a called collaboration or choreography.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Allow Overlapping Matrix Construction of Lanes in a Diagram

  • Key: BPMN2-228
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14848
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The spec has always described the ability to create matrix types of Lanes in diagrams. The current DI MM does not allow this.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 9 Dec 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue is outdated given the rewrite of Chapter 13 (Diagram Interchange) under issue 14423
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Order of outgoing sequence flows from exclusive gateway

  • Key: BPMN2-227
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14834
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Metamodel does not capture order of outgoing message flows from exclusive gateway, which is needed to evaluate the conditions in order,
    per Table 14.2.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 3 Dec 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close this issue as a duplicate.
    The resolution of issue 14753 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

The description of operationRef is not accurate

  • Key: BPMN2-222
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14822
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: IBM ( Yu)
  • Summary:

    in this page, for Send Task, in Table 10.9 ­ Send Task model associations. the description of operationRef is:

    This attribute specifies the operation that is invoked by the Service Task.

    But this description is not accurate because Send task is not a Service Task. the better description may be:

    This attribute specifies the operation that the Send Task will inovke to.

    This issue also happens on the Receive Task's operationRef's description because for Receive Task, the operationRef should describe what operation the Receive task will listen on.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Table 10.9, page 169 (199 pdf), second row, second column: change "Service Task" to "Send Task"
    (b) Table 10.10, page 170 (200 pdf), third row, second column: change "operation that is invoked by the Receive Task" to "operation through which the Receive Task
    receives the message"
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Visibility and permissions for Data Objects and Properties must be described

  • Key: BPMN2-235
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14878
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Object Management Group ( Mr. Mariano Benitez)
  • Summary:

    We should be clear in the spec the places/actions that can read and write on a DataObject or Property.

    For example: is it valid to update an activity property in another activity? We should be extensive in this, otherwise it will be left to vendor interpretation and this can create confusion.

    This was discussed in the BPMN 2.0 FTF in December 2009.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Under section 10.3.1 Data Modeling, paragraphs name "Lifecycle and Visibility" clearly defines the visibility and permissions for Data Object and Properties.
    Hence, this issue is already answered in the specification, and no change is required.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Confusion about Performers and other roles that Resources play for Activities

  • Key: BPMN2-225
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14832
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Should Performers be reusable--at least within a Process? How do tools add additional types of Resource/Activity Roles (e.g., overseer, manager, etc.)? Are the current extension mechanisms sufficient?
    Should Performer be a sub-class of ActivityResource or referenced by it?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Dec 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The ActivityResource/Performer are not reusable, the Resource element referenced by them is. This schema allows most of reuse use cases.
    So the FTF conclusion is to close with no change, since there is no change needed.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Generalize message flow

  • Key: BPMN2-203
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14785
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Model Driven Solutions ( Mr. Cory Casanave)
  • Summary:

    The specification contains this constraint: Note that Message Flow cannot connect to objects that are within the same Pool.

    There is no reason to have this constraint and it artificially constrains the model. Many process modeling paradigms (including UML) provide for flows between activities within a process. It is common to refactor processes in which case the interactions don't change - but they may move to another pool. From a business perspective we may well have a message between activities, even if we have not delineated all the participants. The constraint should be removed. This could be acheaved by a more general treatment of interactions.

    Comments:
    From: conrad.bock created: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:48:03 -0500 (CDT)
    Related to <a href="http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-229">http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-229</a> (Mariano is working on it).

    From: bruce created: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:52:24 -0600 (CST)
    This would fundamentally change one of BPMN's core concepts, message, which currently is any type of signal exchanged between processes (pools).

    From: mariano.benitez created: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:36:58 -0500 (CDT)
    One way or another, we need a resolution for this problem with pools and processes.

    I personally think we should allow message flows between activities of the same process, or even between processes, but without a collaboration diagram. Collaboration diagrams seems like an overkill for me in the case of simple inter-process synchronization (private processes that add up to the big business process).

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This proposal would change basic design principles in BPMN. Hence, we do not want to fix this.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Semantics for data flow without sequence flow

  • Key: BPMN2-202
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14783
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    An activity with data flow input and no incoming sequence flows
    should be given an executable semantics. Then the modeler can focus
    on what data activities accept and provide, without the
    complications of sequencing activities. The semantics could apply
    when input data is taken only at the beginning of activity
    execution, and only from output data that is provided at the end of
    execution of a previous activity in the flow. This isn't the same
    as sequence flow with associated data, because each incoming token
    on a sequence flow "enables the activity independently" (see
    13.1.1. Sequence Flow Considerations). An inclusive merge semantics
    for multiple incoming sequence flows (as in
    <a href="http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-117),">http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-117),</a> helps, but doesn't work
    with mult-token activities or subgraphs in common cases (see
    <a href="http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-254)">http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-254)</a>.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    We propose to relax the sequence flow (SF) connection rules for activities. Any activity may or may not have incoming or outgoing SF, irrespective of the presence of
    start and end events. The semantics we propose for activities without incoming/outgoing SF is as follows:

    • each activity that does not have any incoming SF is triggered (ie receives an implicit token) upon instantiation of the containing (sub-) process
    • each activity that does not have any outgoing SF is treated as if it would be connected to an implicit undecorated end event.
      This requires the following changes to the spec document (referring to dtc/2009-08-14 ):
      in Sect. 10.2 Paragraph "Sequence Flow Connections"
    • in the sentence "If the Activity does not have an incoming Sequence Flow, and there is no Start Event for the Process, then the Activity MUST be instantiated when
      the Process is instantiated.", delete "and there is no Start Event for the Process,"
    • in the sentence "If the Activity does not have an outgoing Sequence Flow, and there is no End Event for the Process, then the Activity marks the end of one or more
      paths in the Process", delete "and there is no End Event for the Process"
      in Sect. 10.4.2 "Start event",
    • delete this:
      "If the Start Event is used, then there MUST NOT be other flow elements that do not have incoming Sequence Flow—all other Flow Objects MUST be a target of at
      least one Sequence Flow. u Exceptions to this are Activities that are defined as being Compensation Activities (have the Compensation Marker). Compensation
      Activities MUST NOT have any incoming Sequence Flow, even if there is a Start Event in the Process level. See page 314 for more information on Compensation
      Activities. u An exception to this is the Intermediate Event, which MAY be without an incoming Sequence Flow (when attached to an Activity boundary). "
      Change this:
      "If the Start Event is not used, then all Flow Objects that do not have an incoming Sequence Flow (i.e., are not a target of a Sequence Flow) SHALL be instantiated
      when the Process is instantiated. There is an assumption that there is only one implicit Start Event, meaning that all the starting Flow Objects will start at the same time.
      u Exceptions to this are Activities that are defined as being Compensation Activities (have the Compensation marker). Compensation Activities are not considered a
      part of the normal flow and MUST NOT be instantiated when the Process is instantiated. See page 314 for more information on Compensation Activities. "
      into this:
      "All Flow Objects that do not have an incoming Sequence Flow (i.e., are not a target of a Sequence Flow) SHALL be instantiated when the Process is instantiated.
      u Exceptions to this are Activities that are defined as being Compensation Activities (have the Compensation marker). Compensation Activities are not considered a
      part of the normal flow and MUST NOT be instantiated when the Process is instantiated. See page 314 for more information on Compensation Activities.
      in Sect. 10.4.3 "End event":
      Delete this:
      "If an End Event is used, then there MUST NOT be other flow elements that do not have any outgoing Sequence Flow—all other Flow Objects MUST be a source of
      at least one Sequence Flow.
      • Exceptions to this are Activities that are defined as being Compensation Activities (have the Compensation marker). Compensation Activities MUST NOT have any
      outgoing Sequence Flow, even if there is an End Event in the Process level. See page 314 for more information on Compensation Activities. "
      In this:
      "If the End Event is not used, then all Flow Objects that do not have any outgoing Sequence Flow (i.e., are not a source of a Sequence Flow) mark the end of a path in
      the Process. However, the Process MUST NOT end until all parallel paths have completed."
      delete "If the End Event is not used, then "
      in Sect. 14.2.1. "Sequence Flow Considerations"
      change this:
      "If an Activity has no incoming Sequence Flow, and there are no Start Events in the containing Process or Sub- Process, the Activity will be instantiated when the
      containing Process or Sub-Process is instantiated. Exceptions to this are Event Sub-Processes and Activities marked as Compensation Activities, as they have
      specialized instantiation behavior. "
      into this:
      "If an Activity has no incoming Sequence Flow, the Activity will be instantiated when the containing Process or Sub-Process is instantiated. Exceptions to this are
      Compensation Activities, as they have specialized instantiation behavior. "
      change this:
      "If the Activity has no outgoing Sequence Flow and there are no End Events in the containing Process or Sub- Process, the Activity will terminate and termination
      semantics for the container applied. "
      into this:
      "If the Activity has no outgoing Sequence Flow, the Activity will terminate without producing any tokens and termination semantics for the container is then applied. "
      Disposition: Resolved
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Enabling multiple events at the same time for the same message

  • Key: BPMN2-201
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14782
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    When multiple message events for the same message (payload type) are
    enabled at the same time ("executed" at the same time), can they
    receive the same transmitted message? For example, suppose a process
    has parallel gateways resulting in two message events for an Order
    message being executed at the same time. If an order message is sent
    at execution time, can it be received by both message events?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Change text in section "14.2.3 Task":
    Current:
    Receive Task: Upon instantiation, the Receive Task begins waiting for the associated Message. When the Message arrives, the Receive Task completes.
    New:
    Receive Task: Upon instantiation, the Receive Task begins waiting for the associated Message. When a message with the right correlation information for that process
    instance arrives, the Receive Task completes. For key-based correlation, only a single receive for a given correlation key can be active, and thus the message matches
    at most one process instance. For predicate-based correlation, the message can be passed to multiple receive tasks.
    Change text in section "14.4.2 Intermediate Events"
    Current:
    For Intermediate Events, the handling consists of waiting for the Event to occur. Waiting starts when the Intermediate Event is reached. Once the Event occurs, it is
    consumed. Sequence flow leaving the Event is followed as usual.
    New:
    For Intermediate Events, the handling consists of waiting for the Event to occur. Waiting starts when the Intermediate Event is reached. Once the Event occurs, it is
    consumed. Sequence flow leaving the Event is followed as usual.
    For intermediate message catch events, the message correlation behavior is the same as for receive tasks – see section "14.2.3 Task".
    Change text in section "14.4.3 Intermediate Boundary Events"
    Current:
    For boundary Events, handling first consists of consuming the Event occurrence. If the cancelActivity attribute is set, the Activity the Event is attached to is then
    cancelled (in case of a multi-instance, all its instances are cancelled); if the attribute is not set, the Activity continues execution (only possible for Message, Signal, Timer,
    and Conditional Events, not for Error Events). Execution then follows the Sequence Flow connected to the boundary Event.
    New:
    For boundary Events, handling first consists of consuming the Event occurrence. If the cancelActivity attribute is set, the Activity the Event is attached to is then
    cancelled (in case of a multi-instance, all its instances are cancelled); if the attribute is not set, the Activity continues execution (only possible for Message, Signal, Timer,
    and Conditional Events, not for Error Events). Execution then follows the Sequence Flow connected to the boundary Event.
    For intermediate boundary message events, the message correlation behavior is the same as for receive tasks – see section "14.2.3 Task".
    Change text in section "14.4.4 Event Sub-Processes"
    Current:
    A non-interrupting Event Sub-Process becomes initiated, and thus Enabled and Running, through the Activity to which it is attached. The non-interrupting Event
    Handler may only be initiated after the parent Activity is Running. More than one non-interrupting Event Handler may be initiated and they may be initiated at different
    times. There might be multiple instances of the non-interrupting Event Handler at a time.
    New:
    A non-interrupting Event Sub-Process becomes initiated, and thus Enabled and Running, through the Activity to which it is attached. The non-interrupting Event
    Handler may only be initiated after the parent Activity is Running. More than one non-interrupting Event Handler may be initiated and they may be initiated at different
    times. There might be multiple instances of the non-interrupting Event Handler at a time.
    For Event Sub-Processes triggered via message start events, the message correlation behavior is the same as for receive tasks – see section "14.2.3 Task".
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Annex D Glossary [Specification]: Update Glossary

  • Key: BPMN2-197
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14778
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The Glossary has been taken from V1.1 and needs to be updated.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Changes to Annex C: Glossary
    (a) Reformat the descriptions of the definitions so that the definition is not repeated in the description. For example, change the beginning of the Activity definition from:
    "An activity is a generic term for work that a company or organization performs via business processes"
    To:
    "Work that a company or organization performs using business processes."
    (b) Remove WfMC definitions from Glossary (some of these definitions will be merged with BPMN terms (see below)
    (c) Remove Workflow Pattern definitions from Glossary
    (d) "Abstract Process" Definition: change definition to "A process that represents the interactions between a private business process and another process or
    participant."
    (e) "AND-Join" Definition: Delete this topic and merge the definition with "Join" (see below)
    (f) "Join" Definition: Replace definition with the following: "A point in the Process where two or more parallel Sequence Flow paths are combined into one Sequence
    Flow path. BPMN uses a Parallel Gateway to perform a Join. Also known as "AND-Join.""
    (g) "AND-Split" Definition: Delete this topic and merge the definition with "Fork"
    (h) "Fork" Definition: Replace definition with the following: "A point in the Process where one Sequence Flow path is split into two or more paths that are run in parallel
    within the Process, allowing multiple activities to run simultaneously rather than sequentially. BPMN uses multiple outgoing Sequence Flows from Activities or Events or
    a Parallel Gateway to perform a Fork. Also known as "AND-Split."
    "Artifact" Definition: remove last two sentences.
    (j) "Association" Definition: replace definition with the following: "A connecting object that is used to link information and Artifacts with Flow Objects. An association is
    represented as a dotted graphical line with an arrowhead to represent the direction of flow."
    (k) "Business Analyst" Definition: replace the definition with "A specialist who analyzes business needs and problems, consults with users and stakeholders to identify
    opportunities for improving business return through information technology, and defines, manages, and monitors the requirements into business processes."
    (l) "Business Process" definition: replace definition with the following: "A defined set of business activities that represent the steps required to achieve a business
    objective. It includes the flow and use of information and resources."
    (m) Remove the "Business Process Definition" item.
    "Business Process Management" definition: replace definition with the following: "management (for example, process analysis, definition, processing, monitoring and
    administration), including support for human and application-level interaction. BPM tools can eliminate manual processes and automate the routing of requests between
    departments and applications."
    (o) "Choreography" definition: replace definition with the following: "An ordered sequence of message exchanges between two or more Participants. In a Choreography
    there is no central controller, responsible entity, or observer of the Process."
    (p) "Collaboration" definition: replace definition with the following: "of message exchanges between two or more Participants."
    (q) "Compensation Flow" definition: replace definition with the following: "Flow that defines the set of activities that are performed while the transaction is being rolled
    back to compensate for activities that were performed during the Normal Flow of the Process. A Compensation Flow can also be called from a Compensate End or
    Intermediate Event."
    (r) Remove the "Controlled Flow" item.
    (s) "Decision" definition: replace definition with the following: "A gateway within a business process where the Sequence Flow can take one of several alternative paths.
    Also known as "Or-Split.""
    (t) "End Event" definition: replace first sentence with: "An event that indicates where a path in the process will end."
    (u) "Event Context" definition: replace definition with the following: "An activity or group of activities in an expanded Subprocess that can be interrupted by an exception
    (such as an Error Intermediate Event)."
    (v) "Exception" definition: replace definition with the following: "An event that occurs during the performance of the Process that causes a diversion from the Normal
    Flow of the Process. Exceptions can be generated by Intermediate Events, such as time, error, or message."
    (w) "Exception Flow" definition: replace definition with the following: "A Sequence Flow path that originates from an Intermediate Event attached to the boundary of an
    activity. The Process does not traverse this path unless the Activity is interrupted by the triggering of a boundary Intermediate Event (an Exception - see above)."
    "Expanded Sub-Process" definition: replace definition with the following: "A Sub-Process that exposes its flow detail within the context of its Parent Process. An
    Expanded Sub-Process is displayed as a rounded rectangle that is enlarged to display the Flow Objects within."
    "Flow" definition: replace definition with the following: "A directional connector between elements in a Process, Collaboration, or Choreography. A Sequence Flows
    represents the sequence of Flow Objects in a Process or Choreography. A Message Flow represents the transmission of a Message between Collaboration
    Participants.The term Flow is often used to represent the overall progression of how a Process or Process segment would be performed."
    (z) "Flow Object" definition: replace definition with the following: "A graphical object that can be connected to or from a Sequence Flow. In a Process, Flow Objects
    are Events, Activities, and Gateways. In a Choreography, Flow Objects are Events, Choreography Activities, and Gateways."
    (a2) "Intermediate Event" definition: replace the definition with: "An event that occurs after a Process has been started. An Intermediate Event affects the flow of the
    process by showing where messages and delays are expected, distributing the Normal Flow through exception handling, or showing the extra flow required for
    compensation. However, an Intermediate Event does not start or directly terminate a process. An Intermediate Event is displayed as a circle, drawn with a thin double
    line."
    (b2) "Lane" definition: replace the definition with: "A partition that is used to organize and categorize activities within a Pool. A Lane extends the entire length of the Pool
    either vertically or horizontally. Lanes are often used for such things as internal roles (e.g., Manager, Associate), systems (e.g., an enterprise application), or an internal
    department (e.g., shipping, finance),"
    (c2) "Merge" definition: replace the definition with: "A point in the Process where two or more alternative Sequence Flow paths are combined into one Sequence Flow
    path. No synchronization is required because no parallel activity runs at the join point. BPMN uses multiple incoming Sequence Flows for an Activity or an Exclusive
    Gateway to perform a Merge. Also know as "OR-Join.""
    (d2) Remove "OR-Join" and merge it's definition with the "Merge" item.
    (e2) "Message" definition: replace the definition with: "An Object that depicts the contents of a communication between two Participants. A message is transmitted
    through a Message Flow and has an identity that can be used for alternative branching of a Process through the Event-Based Exclusive Gateway."
    (f2) "Message Flow" definition: replace the definition with: "A Connecting Object that shows the flow of messages between two Participants. A Message Flow is
    represented by a dashed lined."
    (g2) "Normal Flow" definition: replace the definition with: "A flow that originates from a Start Event and continues through activities on alternative and parallel paths until
    reaching an End Event."
    (h2) Remove OR-Split and merge definition with Decision
    (i2) Remove Parallel Split item
    (j2) "Participant" definition: replace last sentence in definition with: "In a Collaboration, Participants are informally known as "Pools."
    (k2) "Pool" definition: replace the definition with: "A Pool represents a Participant in a Collaboration. Graphically, a Pool is a container for partitioning a Process from
    other Pools/Participants. A Pool is not required to contain a Process, i.e., it can be a "black box." "
    (l2) "Private Business Process" definition: replace the definition with: "A process that is internal to a specific organization, generally called a workflow or BPM process."
    (m2) "Process" definition: replace the definition with: "A sequence or flow of Activities in an organization with the objective of carrying out work. In BPMN, a Process
    is depicted as a graph of Flow Elements, which are a set of Activities, Events, Gateways, and Sequence Flow that adhere to a finite execution semantics."
    (n2) "Result" definition: replace the definition with: "The consequence of reaching an End Event. Types of Results include Message, Error, Compensation, Signal, Link,
    and Multiple."
    (o2) "Start Event" definition: replace the definition with: "An Event that indicates where a particular Process starts. The Start Event starts the flow of the Process and
    does not have any incoming Sequence Flow, but can have a Trigger. The Start Event is displayed as a circle, drawn with a single thin line."
    (p2) "Sequence Flow" definition: replace the definition with: "A connecting object that shows the order in which activities are performed in a Process and is represented
    with a solid graphical line. Each Flow has only one source and only one target. A Sequence Flow can cross the boundaries between Lanes of a Pool but cannot cross
    the boundaries of a Pool."
    (r2) "Task" definition: Replace third sentence of the definition with the following: "Generally, an end-user, an application, or both will perform the Task."
    (s2) "Token" definition: replace the definition with: "A theoretical concept that is used as an aid to define the behavior of a Process that is being performed. The
    behavior of Process elements can be defined by describing how they interact with a token as it "traverses" the structure of the Process. For example, a token will pass
    through an Exclusive Gateway, but continue down only one of the Gateway's outgoing Sequence Flow."
    (t2) "Transaction" definition: in first sentence, replace "A Transaction is" with "A Sub-Process that represents"
    (u2) "Trigger" definition: replace first sentence with "A mechanism that detects an occurrence and can cause additional processing in response, such as the start of a
    business Process."
    (v2) "Uncontrolled Flow" definition: replace the definition with: "Flow that proceeds without dependencies or conditional expressions. Typically, an Uncontrolled Flow
    is a Sequence Flow between two Activities that do not have a conditional indicator (mini-diamond) or an intervening Gateway."
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section 10.3.1 [Data-MM]: Events can contain properties but the relationship is not shown in the MM diagram

  • Key: BPMN2-200
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14781
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Object Management Group ( Mr. Mariano Benitez)
  • Summary:

    Figure 10-53 describes the class diagram for properties, they have a containment relation with Activity and Process, but not with Events. In the spec text reads:

    • "Certain flow elements may contain properties, in particular only Processes, Activities and Events may contain Properties"

    We already agreed that events activities (throw or catch) can contain properties, so we need to add this to the MM and update the diagram

    Proposal: add relation between Properties and Events in the MM and update the diagram 10-53

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Add relation between Properties and Events in the MM and update the diagram 10-53
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Business Rule Task description doesn't describe purpose (section 10.2.3, Beta 1)

  • Key: BPMN2-199
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14780
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Mr. Matthias Kloppmann)
  • Summary:

    Description of issue:The description of the business rule task just describes its shape, but doesn't state its purpose.

    Proposal: Add a single sentence such as "A business rule task calls a business rule and returns its result into the process."

    Comments:
    From: mkloppmann created: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:27:45 -0500 (CDT)
    <a href="http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-143" title="0.5.1. Section 10.1 [Execution semantics]: Clarify completion of tasks">BPMN-143</a> assumes the proposed resolution for <a href="http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-268" title="Business Rule Task description doesn't describe purpose (section 10.2.3, Beta 1)">BPMN-268</a>.

    From: bruce created: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:21:24 -0600 (CST)
    I propose the following tweak as more informative and more consistent w/language of business rule people:

    "A business rule task is a specific type of service task that calls a decision or ruleset on a business rule engine and returns its result to the process."

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue has been fixed before the Beta. There is a description for the BR Task in section 10.2.3 (page 141/pdf 171) and in execution semantics, section 14.2.3
    (page 393/pdf 424)
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Tasks vs Global Tasks

  • Key: BPMN2-198
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14779
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    The various kinds of tasks could also be global tasks. Section
    10.2.7. Global Task says:

    There are different types of Tasks identified within BPMN to
    separate the types of inherent behavior that Tasks might
    represent. This is true for both Global Tasks and standard Tasks,
    where the list of task types is the same for both. For the sake of
    efficiency in this specification, the list task types is presented
    once on page 167.

    "Globalness" should be an attribute of Task, so the taxonomy of
    tasks does not need to be repeated.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    We do not consider making all tasks global something necessary. Besides simplicity and simetry, there is no added value to business users, since the refactoring would
    be done by tooling anyway, so they would not see a difference if the metamodel changes in one way or the other.
    We consider this issue to be part of this FTF, maybe a new RFP can handle it.
    Disposition: Closed, Out Of Scope

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section 8.1.5 [Infra] Import statement description is not clear enough

  • Key: BPMN2-196
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14776
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Object Management Group ( Mr. Mariano Benitez)
  • Summary:

    The intention of the import statement is to include an ENTIRE file as a namespace, so I can reference elements defined inside that file.

    The current text says:
    "The Import class is used when referencing external element, either BPMN elements contained in other BPMN Definitions or non-BPMN elements. Imports must be explicitly defined."

    It is not clear that you are importing the entire file (ala BPEL). Also, it is not clear what is the meaning of "Imports must be explicitly defined"

    – Proposal by Mariano Benitez 23/Oct —
    Change the wording to:

    The import class is used to import elements defined externally and make them available for use by elements defined within the scope of the import element.
    The importType attribute defines the style of associated with the element. Both BPMN and non-BPMN imports are allowed.
    For example: This allows importing an XML Schema that will be used inside StructureDefinition elements, or invoking a global task defined in another file.
    Import elements can be defined globally as part of the definitions, so it is available to all elements defined in that definitions, or it can be defined inside a StructureDefinition, which restricts the scope to that element only.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Change in Table 8.2 Import Attributes, the description of the importType attribute to:
    "Identifies the type of document being imported by providing an absolute URI that identifies the encoding language used in the document.The value of the importType
    attribute MUST be set to http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema when importing XML Schema 1.0 documents, to http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/ when importing
    WSDL 2.0 documents, and http://schema.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0 when importing BPMN 2.0 documents. Other types of documents MAY be supported.
    Importing Xml Schema 1.0, WSDL 2.0 and BPMN 2.0 types MUST be supported."
    Note on 2010-04-26:
    The FTF acknowldges the proposed namespace does not follow OMG guidelines for namespace conventions. The final namespaces will be:

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section 2 Conformance [Specification]: Explicitly define BPMN compliance criteria, with focus on "model"

  • Key: BPMN2-195
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14772
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Beta 1: Section 2 Conformance [Specification]: Explicitly define BPMN compliance criteria, with focus on "model" (as defined above) portability between tools.

    ##Source: IBM (Stephen A. White, wstephe@us.ibm.com)
    ##Original Issue: http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-301
    ##Original Info: (Severity: Significant - Nature: Enhancement)

    This is number 4 of 12 issues submitted by Bruce Silver

    Explicitly define BPMN compliance criteria, with focus on "model" (as defined above) portability between tools. What elements and attributes MUST be supported. There can and should be multiple levels here. You don't have to certify it if you are explicit enough and connect it with #3 above. There will be no shortage of available tools that can check compliance.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close this issue as a duplicate.
    The resolution of issue 14240 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section 10.2.8 [Execution Semantics] Loops: Loop names misleading

  • Key: BPMN2-205
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14789
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: SAP SE ( Rouven Day)
  • Summary:

    The names "Standard Loop" and "Multi Instance Loop" are misleading. Actually both allow for creation of a desired number of Activity instances, not just Multi Instance Loops as the spec text states it. So the multiple instance characteristics is true for all loops, also Standard Loops. Thus the naming of the loop types is very misleading.

    Proposal: Go for the well known names (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_flow#Loops">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_flow#Loops</a>). Rename Standard Loop to Condition-controlled Loop (or Conditional Loop or Condition-based Loop). Also find a better name for Multi Instance Loop. I´ll try to post some name proposals soon.

    Comments:
    From: wstephe created: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:15:16 -0500 (CDT)
    The results of Issue 193 will also resolve this issue.

    From: wstephe created: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:45:16 -0500 (CDT)
    The section number was updated to match the Beta 1 spec.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This is not an implementation issue so the proposal is to close the issue with no changes to the specification.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Reuse of processes in orchestration and choreography

  • Key: BPMN2-204
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14787
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Modelers should be able to define processes independently of whether
    they will be reused in processes or choreographies. Currently the
    information coming in or out of a process is either through data flow or
    through messages, I understand it. The modeler must commit to one of
    these in advance, or define two copies of the process, one with
    messages, the other with data flow. Suzette brought this up separately
    and says a solution was agreed that Mariano will write up. Didn't see
    any issue from her on this, sorry if this is a duplicate.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In section 10.3.2 Executions Semantics for Data, add the following text at the end of the section:

    In the case of Throw and Catch Events, given their nature, the execution semantics for data is different.
    When a ThrowEvent is activated, all DataInputAssociations of the event are executed, filling the DataInputs of the Event. Finally DataInputs are then copied to the
    elements thrown by the event (Messages, Signal, etc). Since there are no InputSets defined for Events, the execution will never wait.
    When a CatchEvent is activated, DataOutputs of the event are filled with the element that triggered the event. Then all DataOutputAssociations of the event are
    executed. There are no OutputSets defined for Events.
    To allow invoking a Process from both a CallActivity and via MessageFlow, the StartEvent and EndEvent support an additional case.
    In the case of a StartEvent, the DataInputs of the enclosing process are available as targets to the DataOutputAssociations of the Event. This way the Process
    DataInputs can be filled using the elements that triggered the StartEvent.
    In the case of a EndEvent, the DataOutputs of the enclosing process are available as sources to the DataInputAssociations of the Event. This way the resulting elements
    of the EndEvent can use the Process DataOutputs as sources.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Pools multiplicity

  • Key: BPMN2-192
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14754
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Bruce Silver Associates ( Mr. Bruce Silver)
  • Summary:

    Table 9-1 says a diagram containing pools, i.e. Collaboration, must contain 2 or more. Then is says "Note that the multiplicity of the pools model association is an open issue and may be changed in a later revision of the specification," but it is unclear whether this means the minimum of 2 pools in a diagram or relates to the MI marker on pools. If the former, I think the minimum should be 1 and it should not wait until a later revision of the sepcification. The reasons are
    1) backward compatibility with BPMN 1.1, in which all BPDs were assumed to have at least one pool, whether boundary visible or not; and
    2) ability for modelers to create diagrams with just one pool, labeled with name of the process... and be able to create schema-valid xml from it.

    Also... following fig 9-4 it says " ...the Activities that represent the work performed from the point of view of the modeler or the modeler's organization may be considered "internal" Activities and are not required to be surrounded by the boundary of their Pool...". This is only true if all the activities are part of a single process (orchestration). I think better to say, "...a single process that represents the work performed from the point of view of the modeler or the modeler's organization may be considered "internal" and is not required to be surrounded by the boundary of its Pool...".

    Comments:
    From: trickovic created: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:01:18 -0600 (CST)
    Bruce's comment: Second part is editorial issue. First part is MM issue.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The metamodel allows for Collaborations to have zero (0) or more Pools. Thus, it is possible to create a Collaboration with just one Pool. The statement that a
    Collaboration contains two (2) Pools is inaccurate and will be fixed.
    The statement about multiplicity of Pools being an open issue was removed from the specification prior to the completion of the Beta version.
    Section 9.2, page 116 (146 pdf), first paragraph below Figure 9.4:
    (a) Change first sentence to:
    "A Collaboration can contain at two (2) or more Pools (i.e., Participants)."
    (b) Change second sentence to:
    "However, a Process that represents the work performed from the point of view of the modeler or the modeler's organization may be considered "internal" and is not
    required to be surrounded by the boundary of the Pool, while the other Pools in the Diagram MUST have their boundary."
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

[Meta-model] Exclusive gateway is missing specification of order of leaving sequence flows

  • Key: BPMN2-191
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14753
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Mr. Matthias Kloppmann)
  • Summary:

    Type: Technical

    Description of issue: The execution semantics for exclusive gateways correctly states that "the conditions [of the outgoing sequence flows] are evaluated in order". However, the meta-model for an exclusive gateway does not allows for the specification of that order.

    Proposal: Using the "appropriate means" (prototype statement?), ensure the relationship from a FlowNode to its outgoing sequence flows is an ordered collection, rather than a set. This provides ordering not only for an exclusive gateway, but for all FlowNodes, but that doesn't seem to harm.
    In the XSD, where the sequence flows reference their source node rather than vice versa, an additional attribute or element to render the order may be needed, or the representation of sequence flow in the XSD may need to be revised.

    (Assigning to Suzette as representative of MM team who also is concerned with the XSD)

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Update Table 8.61 (pg 131)
    Append the following to the description for the 'outgoing' association: This is an ordered collection.
    The UML Metamodel used as base for XSD and XMI will be updated to reflect this change
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Diagram Interchange should align with Diagram Type Definition

  • Key: BPMN2-190
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14752
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    This summarizes a conversation with Maged, we agreed an issue should be
    filed. He said there were two approaches to diagram interchange (which
    he can explain more about). The one in the IOS submission was chosen
    for expediency and IBM will not be submitting it to the OMG's Diagram
    Type Definition RFP (DTD). The differences between the approaches is
    too much to resolve in an FTF. The IOS submission should use the same
    diagram interchange as IOS members (IBM at least) are submitting for
    DTD. Then any remaining differences between IOS and the later DTD
    adoption can be resolved in FTF.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close this issue as a duplicate.
    The resolution of issue 14423 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section 10.2.5: Sub-Process: Figure 10.25; Add a minus sign to the bottom of an expanded Sub-Process?

  • Key: BPMN2-207
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14793
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The collapsed Sub-Process has a "plus" sign marker. Should the expanded Sub-Process have a "minus" sign marker. Many tools already do this.

    Comments:
    From: wstephe created: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 19:41:21 -0600 (CST)
    Given the current schedule, this issue will not be addressed in the RFP process. This issue can be reopened by the BPMN 2.0 FTF.

    From: wstephe created: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:35:55 -0500 (CDT)
    The Section and Figure numbers were updated to match the Beta 1 spec

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close; no change
    The FTF decided that the issue report does not identify a problem with this specification
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section 8.2.1 [Service Model] How to model a request-reply use case?

  • Key: BPMN2-206
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14791
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Object Management Group ( Mr. Mariano Benitez)
  • Summary:

    In BPMN 1.1 there is no way to model a request-reply model based on a single interface operation.

    Right now we don't have a way to relate a Receive Task and Service/Reply Task that generates the response to the message received.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close, no Change. The FTF decided that the reported issue does not identify a problem with BPMN 2.0
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Data flow in/out of events

  • Key: BPMN2-194
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14760
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Data flow should work with events, rather than just send and receive
    tasks and activities. Modelers sh9uldn't need to change the model so
    much just to add data flow.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This is not a problem with the specification, so we close with no change
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Beta 1: Section 10.3.1 Data Objects [Data]: Change Multiplicity of datastate attribute from 0..1 to 0..*

  • Key: BPMN2-193
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14758
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    A Data Object can have multiple states at the same time. Change Multiplicity of datastate attribute from 0..1 to 0..*

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The FTF decided this change is not required, since it implementing another way extending state multiplicity for data objects (DataObjectRefs). See 15080.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Beta 1: Is a Message a DataInput for an Activity; Is Message Flow a Data Association

  • Key: BPMN2-187
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14748
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Is Message Flow another type of Data Association? This would mean that Messages can be mapped to the Data Inputs of Activities.
    Is there another way to use Message as an Activity Input?

    Comments:
    From: conrad.bock created: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:54:23 -0600 (CST)
    This would be a subtopic of <a href="http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-229" title="Reuse of processes in orchestration and choreography">BPMN-229</a>.

    From: ings_osoa created: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:32:59 -0500 (CDT)
    Steve notes that this issue may arise during our samples work and if so we can resolve it in that context. Otherwise he agrees it should be deferred.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Formatted versions are available here:
    10_process-activities_updatedFor359_v2.doc
    10_process-data_updatedFor359_v2.doc
    10_process-events_updatedFor359_v3.doc
    14_execsem_updatedFor359_v2.doc
    (a) Replace the first paragraph after Figure 10.11 with the following:
    "The Service Task inherits the attributes and model associations of Activity (see Table 103). In addition the following constraints are introduced when the Service Task
    references an Operation: The Service Task has exactly one InputSet and at most one OutputSet. It has a single data input with an ItemDefinition equivalent to the one
    defined by the Message referenced by the inMessageRef attribute of the associated operation. If the operation defines output Messages, the Service Task has a single
    data output that has an ItemDefinition equivalent to the one defined by the Message referenced by the outMessageRef attribute of the associated operation."
    (b) Add a new paragraph immediately after Figure 10.14 with the following:
    "The Send Task inherits the attributes and model associations of Activity (see Table 10.1 ). In addition the following constraints apply when the Send Task references a
    Message: The Send Task has at most one input set and one data input. If the data input is present, it must have an ItemDefinition equivalent to the one defined by the
    associated Message. At execution time, when the Send Task is executed, the data automatically moves from the data input on the Send Task into the Message to be
    sent. If the data input is not present, the Message will not be populated with data from the process."
    (c) Add a new paragraph immediately after Figure 10.15 with the following:
    "The Receive Task inherits the attributes and model associations of Activity (see Table 10.1 ). In addition the following constraints apply when the Receive Task
    references a Message: The Receive Task must have at most one output set and at most one data output on the Receive Task. If the data output is present, it must have
    an ItemDefinition equivalent to the one defined by the associated Message. At execution time, when the Receive Task is executed, the data automatically moves from
    the Message to the data output on the Receive Task. If the data output is not present, the payload within the Message will not flow out of the task and into the
    process."
    (d) Section 10.3.1, last paragraph on page 182 (212 pdf): delete ", Messages" from the last sentence.
    (e) Table 10.52, attributes "dataInputs" and "dataOutputs": add "This is an ordered set" to their descriptions.
    (f) First paragraph after Table 10.54, change "outputs to the specific Activity implementations" to "outputs to specific Activity and Event implementations"
    (g) Section 10.3.1, Sub-Section Service Task Mapping: replace the two (2) paragraphs of the section with the following:
    "If the Service Task is associated with an Operation there must be a single data input on the Service Task and it must have an ItemDefinition equivalent to the one
    defined by the Message referred to by the inMessageRef attribute of the operation. If the operation defines output Messages, there must be a single data output and it
    must have an ItemDefinition equivalent to the one defined by Message referred to by the outMessageRef attribute of the operation."
    (h) Add a new Sub-Section after Sub-Section Service Task Mapping, with a title of "Send Task Mapping" and contents of the following:
    "If the Send Task is associated with a Message, there must be at most one input set and at most one data input on the Send Task. If the data input is present, it must
    have an ItemDefinition equivalent to the one defined by the associated Message. If the data input is not present, the Message will not be populated with data at
    execution time."
    Add a new Sub-Section after Sub-Section Service Task Mapping, with a title of "Receive Task Mapping" and contents of the following:
    "If the Receive Task is associated with a Message, there must be at most one output set and at most one data output on the Receive Task. If the data output is present,
    it must have an ItemDefinition equivalent to the one defined by the associated Message. If the data output is not present, the payload within the Message will not flow
    out of the Event and into the process."
    (j) Add a new Sub-Section after Sub-Section Script Task Mapping, with a title of "Events" and contents of the following:
    If any of the EventDefinitions for the Event is associated with an element that has an Item Definition (such as a Message, Escalation, Error, Signal), the following
    constraints apply:
    [bullet] If the Event is associated with multiple Event Definitions, there must be one data input (in the case of Throw Events) or one data output (in the case of Catch
    Events) for each Event Definition. The order of the Event Definitions and the order of the data inputs/outputs determine which input/output corresponds with which
    Event Definition.
    [bullet] For each Evant Definition and input/output pair, if the input/output is present, it must have an ItemDefinition equivalent to the one defined by the Message,
    Signal, Error or Signal on the associated Event Definition. In the case of a ThrowEvent, if the data input is not present, the Message, Escalation, Error, or Signal will not
    be populated with data. In the case of a CatchEvent, if the data output is not present, the payload within the Message, Escalation, Error, or Signal will not flow out of
    the event and into the process.
    (k) Replace Figure 10.66: ThrowEvent.dataInputs and CatchEvent.dataOutputs to have multiplicity of 0..n
    (l) Section 10.4.1, Sub-Section Data Modeling and Events: Replace the 2nd sentence of the 1st paragraph with the following:
    "For such Events, the following constraints apply:
    [bullet]If the Event is associated with multiple Event Definitions, there must be one data input (in the case of Throw Events) or one data output (in the case of Catch
    Events) for each Event Definition. The order of the Event Definitions and the order of the data inputs/outputs determine which input/output corresponds with which
    Event Definition.
    [bullet]For each Evant Definition and input/output pair, if the input/output is present, it must have an ItemDefinition equivalent to the one defined by the Message,
    Signal, Error or Signal on the associated Event Definition. In the case of a ThrowEvent, if the data input is not present, the Message, Escalation, Error, or Signal will not
    be populated with data. In the case of a CatchEvent, if the data output is not present, the payload within the Message, Escalation, Error, or Signal will not flow out of
    the event and into the process.
    The execution behavior is then as follows:
    [bullet]For Throw Events: When the event is activated, the data in the data input is automatically assigned to the Message, Signal, Escalation or Error referenced by the
    corresponding EventDefinition.
    [bullet]For Catch Events: When the trigger of the event occurs (for example, the Message is received), the data is automatically assigned to the data output that
    corresponds to the EventDefinition that described that trigger."
    (m) Section 10.4.1: Delete Sub-Section "Catch Event Data Association" and delete Sub-Section "Throw Event Data Association"
    Table 10.75, attributes "eventDefinitionRefs", "eventDefinitions", and "dataOutputs": add "This is an ordered set" to their descriptions.
    (o) Table 10.76, attributes "eventDefinitionRefs", "eventDefinitions", and "dataInputs": add "This is an ordered set" to their descriptions.
    (p) Section 14.2.3: Replace the description of the bullet for Service Task with the following: "Upon activation, the data in the inMessage of the Operation is assigned
    from the data in the data input of the Service Task, and the Operation is invoked. On completion of the service, the data in the data output of the Service Task is
    assigned from the data in the outMessage of the Operation, and the Service Task completes. If the invoked service returns a fault, that fault is treated as interrupting
    error, and the Activity fails."
    (q) Section 14.2.3: Replace the description of the bullet for Send Task with the following:
    "Upon activation, the data in the associated Message is assigned from the data in the data input of the Send Task. The Message is sent and the Send Task completes."
    (r) Section 14.2.3: Replace the description of the bullet for Receive Task with the following:
    "Upon activation, the Receive Task begins waiting for the associated Message. When the Message arrives, the data in the data output of the Receive Task is assigned
    from the data in the Message, and Receive Task completes."
    (s) Section 14.2.3, Bullet for User Task: Replace "instantiation" with "activation"
    (t) Section 14.2.3, Bullet for Manual Task: Replace "instantiation" with "activation"
    (u) Section 14.2.3, Bullet for Business Rule Task: Replace "instantiation" with "activation"
    (v) Section 14.2.3, Bullet for Script Task: Replace "instantiation" with "activation"
    (w) Section 14.2.3, Bullet for Abstract Task: Replace "instantiation" with "activation"
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Beta 1 [Section 12.1.2] - Use of the term "BPMN" in class names

  • Key: BPMN2-186
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14747
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Many classes in the visual model start with BPMN. For example, BPMNDiagram, BPMNShape, etc.

    Given that this metamodel is part of the BPMN spec, including BPMN in class names seem extraneous. Certainly we don't do so in the semantic metamodel, so there is an inconsistency in style. Also, this style of naming generally isn't considered a recommended practice. What if BPMN is renamed in the next version?

    Is there a real need for this pattern?

    Comments:
    From: oliver.kieselbach created: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:29:07 -0600 (CST)
    I personally don't have a strong opinion about the general naming. Two motivations were driving us here: 1) we wanted to have names which clearly differentiate between a visual MM element from the corresponding semantic element to avoid confusion when talking/discussing/describing elements. 2) when Maged has shown us the Diagram Definition concept and the examples for the UML intrumentation of this DD MM, he also used names like "UMLClassDiagram", "UMLConnector" etc.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    We need the prefix for Domain Specific refinement of the generic DD specification to differentiate it from the referenced element. This pattern was also done with
    UML.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Beta 1 [Section 12.1.2] - OrchestrationDiagram should be called ProcessDiagram

  • Key: BPMN2-185
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14746
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    In the visual metamodel, a Choreography is visualized in a ChoreographyDiagram, a Collaboration is visualized in a CollaborationDiagram, and yet a Process is not visualized with a ProcessDiagram as I would expect but rather an OrchestrationDiagram.

    For consistency and clarity in terminology, the OrchestrationDiagram should be called ProcessDiagram. Was there a reason it couldn't be?

    Comments:
    From: oliver.kieselbach created: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:30:52 -0600 (CST)
    I don't think there was a special reason behind the decision to use "OrchestrationDiagram". So, it would be fine with me to rename it to "ProcessDiagram"

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The BPMN DI does not contain diagram type as this is not needed for Diagram interchange.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Relationship navigation (both in MM and XSD)

  • Key: BPMN2-184
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14743
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Beta 1, Section 8.4

    Currently the MM contains a bidirectional relationship between Interface and ServiceRef. This is also represented in the XSD, where the Interface complexType has an element that references a ServiceReference, and the ServiceReference complexType has an element that references an Interface.

    In the Samples meeting, it was raised that the Interface->ServiceReference relationship was not needed in the XSD. This discussion resulted in several outstanding questions:

    • If it doesn't belong in the XSD, should it be in the MM?
    • Tool vendors would find this convenient to have. But is that an implementation issue?
    • This likely isn't the only case. Need to have a broader discussion.
    • What is the purpose of the MM? How are we positioning it?
    • If the MM is for portability, then should the arguments used against the XSD also apply to the MM?
  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:
    • This issue has been carried over from the BPMN 2.0 submission team
    • Ongoing implementation projects do not indicate this is an issue. Close with no changes to the specification (as it is not a problem)
      Disposition: Closed, No Change
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Beta 1: Section 10.2 Activities: Reference Task and Sub-Process from BPMN 1.1 not in BPMN 2.0

  • Key: BPMN2-183
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14742
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    In BPMN 1.1, there were Reference Tasks and Sub-Processes, which provided a type of within Diagram reusability--as opoposed to Global Tasks reused across diagrams. Any feature that is in 1.1, but not 2.0 should have some documentation as to why it is not there. This issue could be used to re-introduce the elements or to document why they were excluded in this version.

    Comments:
    From: wstephe created: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 17:39:41 -0600 (CST)
    This could be potential resolved by modifying the Call Activity so that it can also call activities within the same diagram (which was what the Reference Task and Reference Sub-Process did).

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In Changes annex (Annex A) add:
    "Reference Tasks are removed. These provided reusability within a single diagram, as compared to GlobalTasks, which are resuable across multiple diagrams.
    GlobalTasks can be used instead of Reference Tasks, to simplify the language and implementations."
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Global Task should have performer, Call Activity should have capability to overwrite performer

  • Key: BPMN2-176
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14732
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Oracle ( Ralf Mueller)
  • Summary:

    A Global Task should have a (default) performer. Right now that is missing in the meta model.
    A Call Activity then should have the capability to overwrite the performer of the global task it is calling.

    Example: (Global User Task)

    <globalUserTask id="approveOrder" name="Approve Order" implementation="humanTaskWebService">
    <documentation>
    Given an order and customer data, approve or reject the order.
    </documentation>
    <ioSpecification>
    <dataInput id="approveOrder-input1" structureDefinitionRef="tns:customerStructure" optional="false"/>
    <dataInput id="approveOrder-input2" structureDefinitionRef="tns:orderStructure" optional="false"/>
    <dataOutput id="approveOrder-output" structureDefinitionRef="tns:resultStructure"/>
    <inputSet id="approveOrder-is">
    <dataInputRefs>aproveOrder-input1</dataInputRefs>
    <dataInputRefs>aproveOrder-input2</dataInputRefs>
    <outputSetRefs>approveOrder-os</outputSetRefs>
    </inputSet>
    <outputSet id="approveOrder-os">
    <dataOutputRefs>aproveOrder-output</dataOutputRefs>
    <inputSetRefs>approveOrder-is</inputSetRefs>
    </outputSet>
    </ioSpecification>
    <performer name="Regional Manager" id="regionalManager"/>
    <potentialOwner>
    <peopleAssignmentPeopleGroup definition="regionalManagers">
    <parameter parameter="city">
    <formalExpression>getDataInput('approveOrder-input1')/address/city</formalExpression>
    </parameter>
    <parameter parameter="country">
    <formalExpression>getDataInput('approveOrder-input1')/address/country</formalExpression>
    </parameter>
    </peopleAssignmentPeopleGroup>
    </potentialOwner>
    <rendering>
    <documentation>HTML Rendering</documentation>
    <html xmlns="<a href="http://w3c.org/html">http://w3c.org/html</a>">
    <h1>Approve Order</h1>
    </html>
    </rendering>
    </globalUserTask>

    Comments:
    From: trickovic created: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 04:03:59 -0500 (CDT)
    As per 4/6 BPMN 2.0 meeting: Defer <a href="http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-467" title="Global Task should have performer, Call Activity should have capability to overwrite performer">BPMN-467</a>

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Change the MM relationship in GlobalTask from Performer to ResourceRole (ex ActivityResource, see issue 408) and rename the relationship from "performers" to
    "resources".
    1. Change Figure 10.42 to reflect this change
    2. Change the sentence below Figure 10.42 to the following content: "The Global Task inherits the attributes and model associations of Callable Element (see Table
    8.30). Table 10.XX presents the additional model associations of the GlobalTask:"
    3. Create a new table:
    resources: ResourceRole [0..*] => Defines the resource that will perform or will be responsible for the GlobalTask. In the case where the CallableElement that
    references this GlobalTask defines its own resources, they will override the ones defined here.
    (b) Add the following sentence to section 10.2.6 CallAcivity: "When the CallActivity defines one or more ResourceRole elements, the elements defined by the
    CallableElement are ignored and the elements defined in the CallActivity are used instead."
    (c) Change Table 10.131 - GlobalTask XML schema: replace "performer" with "resource".
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Aliases for imported definitions

  • Key: BPMN2-182
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14740
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Filed for Martin and Steve, based on choreograph discussions. When importing definitions, names of imported elements might not be suitable for the application of the importing definitions. The importing definitions should be able to assign aliases to the imported elements for use within the importing definitions.

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Proposal to review: [Suzette Samoojh - March 18, 2009]
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Assumption: "Aliasing" is required when you need to use an existing element, but wish to label it differently based on a usage context.
    Two known use-cases:

    • A Participant references a Role (or Entity) and wishes to apply a name that is different from the Role (or Entity) name.
    • A CallActivity references a CallableElement and wishes to show a name that is different from the name of the CallableElement.

    Proposal: Use existing 'name' attributes to achieve this.

    • Participant.name: If specified, serves as the 'alias' for the referenced Role or Entity. If unspecified, the original name of the Role or Entity is used.
    • CallActivity.name [inherited from FlowElement]: Ditto
      No MM changes needed. Just spec text.

    If anyone has an example that the above does not satisfy, please post it.
    [Note that a concrete example then means we will tackle this issue in a samples-driven manner].

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue cannot be fixed in this FTF.
    Disposition: Closed, Out Of Scope

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Beta 1: Section 10.2 Activities: Move User Task Instance Attributes to the higher level Activity element

  • Key: BPMN2-181
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14739
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Since all activities have performers and priorities. it makes sense to be able to use the actual performer or priority of any activity in the definition of any other activity. E.g., the performer of this activity cannot be the same as that activity. Performers can do the work as in User Tasks, or just be stakeholders or authorizers, etc. for any activity (including sub-processes). Right now only User Activities have these instance attributes. Moving the attributes to the Activity level would allow other activities this capability.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    These instance attributes are defined for User Tasks only, as they are needed for different human interaction scenarios.
    For other task types, e.g. Receive Task, Send Task, Service Task, Business Rule Task the value of having these instance attributes is not clear. E.g. It is not clear what
    would be the Actual Owner of a Receive Task or a Send Task.
    The proposal is to close this issue with no changes to the specification.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

[Section 10.2.3] Editorial

  • Key: BPMN2-189
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14750
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Object Management Group ( Mr. Mariano Benitez)
  • Summary:

    [OMG 14750] [Section 10.2.3] Editorial: protocol attribute on the transaction subprocess class seems to have a wrong description - TransactionMethod values not explained
    This is the description Transaction->protocol attribute in 0.9.2 (page 156):

    The elements that make up the internal Sub-Process flow.
    This association is only applicable when the XSD Interchange is used. In the case
    of the XMI interchange, this association is inherited from the
    FlowElementsContainer class.

    Also, the TransactionMethod values are not fully explained. I can infer compensate, but I don't understand Store or Image.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Clarification: Attribute "protocol" is not needed as Transaction Sub-Process has attribute "flowElements" inherited from class Sub-Process.
    Proposal for 14335 resolves the second part of the issue.
    The proposal is to make the following changes in Beta 1:
    (1) Section 10.2.5
    Table 10.21: Remove attribute "protocol" (the complete row).
    (2) Update the XSD, so that Transaction inherits from SubProcess as stated in the specification text and MM:
    Add
    <xsd:complexType name="tTransaction">
    <xsd:complexContent>
    <xsd:extension base="tSubProcess"/>
    ...
    </xsd:complexContent>
    </xsd:complexType>
    instead of
    <xsd:complexType name="tTransaction">
    <xsd:complexContent>
    <xsd:extension base="tActivity"/>
    ...
    </xsd:complexContent>
    </xsd:complexType>
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

[Section 10.6] Editorial: We need more explicit descriptions of Compensation behaviour regarding scopes

  • Key: BPMN2-188
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14749
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Object Management Group ( Mr. Mariano Benitez)
  • Summary:

    I believe we need to be more clear/explicit when describing several aspects of compensations. I base this on 0.9.2

    • We should made clear on each case what context is used in compensation. This is a refinement of the snapshot concept, but it needs clarification in this cases:
      • Boundary event handlers: it only mention "black-box" compensation, when it should clearly state that the current state is used.
      • inline event sub-processes: they mention the snapshot when the process is completed, but there is no mention to the case when the compensation is triggered while the subprocess is still running. Also it should be described that the parent scope used in the compensation is the current one, even when the compensated subprocess uses the snapshot context.
  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The assumption made when reporting this issues was that a compensation can compensate a running activity, which is wrong, only completed activities can be
    compensated. So this issue is invalid.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Add business-level presentation attributes to user task: subject and description

  • Key: BPMN2-180
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14736
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Mr. Matthias Kloppmann)
  • Summary:

    From the human interactions example:
    Need to add business-level presentation attributes known from BPEL4People, namely subject and description. This should include the ability to specify presentation parameters - needs discussion. Without these, the user task capability is not rich enough for serious direct execution, but will always require mapping to and enrichment in BPEL4People.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Rather than copying the various BPEL4People elements to the BPMN spec, we should modify the BPMN spec as follows:
    Text in section "10.2.4 Human Interactions"
    Current:
    The User Task inherits the attributes and model associations of Activity (see Table 10.3). Table 10.13 presents the additional attributes and model associations of the
    User Task.
    New:
    The User Task inherits the attributes and model associations of Activity (see Table 10.3). Table 10.13 presents the additional attributes and model associations of the
    User Task. If implementations extend these attributes (e.g., to introduce subjects or descriptions with presentation parameters), they SHOULD use attributes defined
    by the OASIS WS-HumanTask specification.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Data Association should be specialized from Association

  • Key: BPMN2-179
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14735
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Association has a source and target of BaseElement which should inherit
    to DataAssociation, instead of being defined again on Data Association.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close, no change. The issue requests a metamodel simplification that would be confusing and would not provide sufficient benefits.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Editorial: Rename FlowElement::categoryValue to ::categoryValueRef

  • Key: BPMN2-175
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14731
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Mr. Matthias Kloppmann)
  • Summary:

    As per discussion in examples working session on 2009.03.26

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Replace Figure 8.15. See the change is circled in red in
    (MM_Group.jpg)
    (b) Replace Figure 8.23 to include the CategoryValue element and the association to Flow Element
    (c) Update Table 8.45. Add attribute "categoryValueRef" with description "A reference to the category values that are associated with this flow element".
    (d) Update the XSD snippet (Table 8.66) to rename "categoryValue" to "categoryValueRef".
    No change needed to the actual XSD. It already contains the correct name.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Data Assignment 'from' and 'to' should be formal expressions

  • Key: BPMN2-174
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14728
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Oracle ( Ralf Mueller)
  • Summary:

    In Data Assignment, the 'from' and 'to' attributes are Object. The Assignment class should be modified as following
    1. Remove 'language' attribute
    2. Data Type of 'from' and 'to' is FormalExpression

    Apart from that, the attribute 'evaluatesToTypeRef' in FormalExpression class should be optional

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue has the same resolution as OMG 14701 (14701)
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

[XSD] Documentation and ScriptTask (and probably expressions) should be stored as CData elements and not String attribut

  • Key: BPMN2-177
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14733
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Object Management Group ( Mr. Mariano Benitez)
  • Summary:

    Documentation and the scripts are formatted text, we should keep the format (spaces, tabs) that the user defined.

    Storing formatted text as string attributes makes it impossible to do so, since it turns the attributes quite big and looses the format.

    It would be better if we store any formatted text as a CDATA element, so we can easily keep the format.

    Proposal: change the XSD for documentation, script task and formal expressions to use a CDATA element instead of a string attribute.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The issue was opened against an older (pre-Beta) version of the BPMN XSD. The problems described no longer occur.
    Examples of how text can store any formatted text as a CDATA element can be seen here:
    testXMLFor_BPMNFTF-424b.xml
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Lanes should be described in Process section

  • Key: BPMN2-178
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14734
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    Lanes are pat of process modeling and should be described in the Process section. They
    are currently documented in the Collaboration chapter, which happens to use process models.

    Comments:
    From: wstephe created: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:30:41 -0500 (CDT)
    The resolution to this issue was applied in V0.9.9.5

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue was mistakenly added to the list. The issue had already been fixed.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Beta 1: Section 10.4.5 Handling Events: When does the interrupting Event Sub-Process cancel its Parent?

  • Key: BPMN2-169
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14723
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    In this section there is the following text: "They execute synchronously and after their completion, the hosting Activity is immediately canceled."

    This means that the parent process will continue work while the Event SP is active, which could be a long time. If the triggering Event is an error, this doesn't make much sense. Note that the Execution Semantics section doesn't specify when the parent activity is terminated.

    ------------------------------ Proposal ---------------- 2009-04-15 -------------------------------------

    Modify text so that it states that the activity of the parent Process is terminated when the interrupting Event SP is triggered

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) * Section 10.4.6, p.257
    Original: "They execute synchronously and after their completion, the hosting Activity is immediately terminated."
    Replace: "They interrupt normal execution of the parent Activity and after their completion, the parent Activity is immediately terminated."
    (b) * Section 10.4.6, p.257
    Original: "The same restrictions apply for boundary Events."
    Append: "The same restrictions apply for boundary Events. During execution of a non-interrupting Event Sub-Process, execution of the parent Activity continues as
    normal."
    (c) * Section 10.4.6, p.258
    Original: "Whenever the Event occurs, regardless of whether the Event is handled inline or on the boundary, the associated Activity is canceled."
    Replace: "Whenever the Event occurs, regardless of whether the Event is handled inline or on the boundary, the associated Activity is interrupted."
    (d) * Section 10.4.6, p.258
    Original: "If a boundary Error Event is present, Sequence Flow from that boundary Event is then followed."
    Append: "If a boundary Error Event is present, Sequence Flow from that boundary Event is then followed. The parent Activity is canceled after either the error handler
    completes or Sequence Flow from the boundary Event is followed."
    (e) * Section 14.2.2, p.392
    Original: Figure 14.2, missing addt'l states Failing and Terminating
    Replace: Figure 14.2, added states Failing and Terminating
    (f) * Section 14.2.2, p.393
    Original: N/A
    Append: below bullet "• If an Activity's execution ends without anomalies, the Activity's state changes to Completing. [...]" --> the following text: "• An Activity's
    execution is interrupted if an interrupting Event is raised (such as an Error) or if an interrupting Event Sub Process is initiated, In this case, the Activity's state changes to
    Failing (in case of an Error) or Terminating (in case any other interrupting Event). All nested activities that are not in Ready, Active or a final state (Completed,
    Compensated, Failed, etc.) and non-interrupting Event Sub-Processes are terminated. The data context of the Activity is preserved in case an interrupting Event Sub-
    Process is invoked. The data context is released after the Event Sub-Process reaches a final state."
    (g) * Section 14.4.4, p.404
    Original:
    "• A non-interrupting Event Sub-Process becomes initiated, and thus Enabled and Running, through the Activity to which it is attached. The non-interrupting Event
    Handler may only be initiated after the parent Activity is Running. More than one non-interrupting Event Handler may be initiated and they may be initiated at different
    times. There might be multiple instances of the non-interrupting Event Handler at a time.
    • An Event Sub-Process completes when all tokens have reached an End Event, like any other Sub-Process. If the parent Activity enters the state Completing, it
    remains in that state until all contained active Event Sub-Processes have completed. While the parent Activity is in that Completing, no new Event Sub-Processes can
    be initiated."
    Replace:
    "•An Event Sub-Process becomes initiated, and thus Enabled and Running, through the Activity to which it is attached. The Event Handler may only be initiated after
    the parent Activity is Running.
    • More than one non-interrupting Event Handler may be initiated and they may be initiated at different times. There might be multiple instances of the non-interrupting
    Event Handler at a time.
    • Only one interrupting Event Handler may be initiated for a given Event Definition within the context of the parent Activity. Once the interrupting Event Handler is
    started, the parent Activity is interrupted and no new Event Handlers can be initiated or started.An Event Sub-Process completes when all tokens have reached an End
    Event, like any other Sub-Process. If the parent Activity enters the state Completing, it remains in that state until all contained active Event Sub-Processes have
    completed. While the parent Activity is in that Completing, no new Event Sub-Processes can be initiated.
    • If an interrupting Event Sub-Process is started by an Error, then the parent Activity enters the state Failing and remains in this state until the interrupting Event Handler
    reaches a final state. During this time, the running Event Handler can access to the context of the parent Activity. However, no new Event Handlers may be started.
    • Similarly, if an interrupting Event Sub-Process is started by a Non Error (e.g., Escalation), then the parent Activity enters the state Terminating and remains in this
    state until the interrupting Event Handler reaches a final state. During this time, the running Event Handler can access to the context of the parent Activity. However, no
    new Event Handlers may be started."
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

TimerEventDefinition: clarification of the expected result of the timeCycle and timeDate expressions

  • Key: BPMN2-168
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14722
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Object Management Group ( Mr. Mariano Benitez)
  • Summary:

    These attributes of the TimerEventDefinition are expressions, there is no mention of the result type. Also it would be useful to describe how this values are used (timeDate defines the next moment the time will trigger, while timeCycle defines an interval that is added to "now" to define the next moment).

    Another thing that is not described is the moment when theses expressions are evaluated. Intuitively I think it is in the moment after the trigger is executed, and for the first time, the moment it is activated.

    Following the BPEL mapping, the timeDate expression should return an XSD DateTime element and the timeCycle an XSD Interval (Period).

    I think it is necessary to clarify this in the execution semantics so people understand what type of behaviour is expected from this event.

    I can make the changes if necessary.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 10.4.5 Event Definitions
    Subsection Timer Event, Table 10.20 - TimerEventDefinition model associations
    > Change row: attribute timeDate
    Original
    If the Trigger is a Timer, then a timeDate MAY be entered. If a timeDate is not entered, then a timeCycle MUST be entered (see attribute below—if the processType
    attribute of the Process is set to executable).
    Proposal
    If the Trigger is a Timer, then a timeDate MAY be entered. Timer attributes are mutually exclusive and if any of the other Timer attributes is set, timeDate MUST NOT
    be set (see attribute below—if the processType attribute of the Process is set to executable). The return type of the attribute timeDate MUST conform to the ISO8601
    format for date and time representations.
    > Change row: attribute timeCycle
    Original
    If the Trigger is a Timer, then a timeCycle MAY be entered. Timer attributes are mutually exclusive and if any of the other Timer attributes is set, timeCycle MUST
    NOT be set (see attribute below—if the processType attribute of the Process is set to executable).
    The return type of the attribute timeDate MUST conform to ISO-8601 interval format.
    Proposal
    If the Trigger is a Timer, then a timeCycle MAY be entered. Timer attributes are mutually exclusive and if any of the other Timer attributes is set, timeCycle MUST
    NOT be set (see attribute below—if the processType attribute of the Process is set to executable). The return type of the attribute timeCycle MUST conform to the
    ISO-8601 format for recurring time interval representations.
    > Append row: attribute timeDuration
    Original
    N/A
    Proposal
    Attribute Name
    timeDuration: Expression [0..1]
    Description/Usage
    If the Trigger is a Timer, then a timeDuration MAY be entered to specify a relative point in time. Timer attributes are mutually exclusive and if any of the other Timer
    attributes is set, timeDuration MUST NOT be set (see attribute below—if the processType attribute of the Process is set to executable). The return type of the
    attribute timeDuration MUST conform to the ISO-8601 format for time interval representations.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Correlation properties must have name and type (was dropped in 4/22 XSD and MM)

  • Key: BPMN2-167
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14721
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Mr. Matthias Kloppmann)
  • Summary:

    ##Source: IBM (Matthias Kloppmann, matthias-kloppmann@de.ibm.com)
    ##Original Issue: http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-493
    ##Original Info: (Severity: Significant - Nature: Revision)

    Correlation properties are specified by means of name and type, e.g., orderID of type integer, or customerName of type string. The properties may typically be specified by means of their name and type only, while retrievalExpressions are added only later, and modified independently. The latest version of the spec dropped name and type.

    Resolution proposal: Re-add correlationProperty::name and ::itemRef.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    UML Schema
    (a) – Add attributes as per XSD above/spec table changes below
    Specification text:
    – Figure 8.18 Correlation Class diagram
    Show the following added attributes in their compartments:
    (b) CorrelationKey::name
    (c) CorrelationProperty::name
    (d) CorrelationProperty::type
    – Table 8.32 CorrelationKey model associations
    Add the following row:
    (e) name[0..1] | String | Specifies the name of the correlation key
    – Table 8.33 CorrelationProperty model associations
    Add the following rows:
    (f) name[0..1] | String | Specifies the name of the correlation property
    (g) type[0..1]='String' | ItemDefinition | Specifies the type of the correlation property
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

tActivityResource::resourceRef should be optional

  • Key: BPMN2-166
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14720
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Mr. Matthias Kloppmann)
  • Summary:

    ##Source: IBM (Matthias Kloppmann, matthias-kloppmann@de.ibm.com)
    ##Original Issue: http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-494
    ##Original Info: (Severity: Significant - Nature: Revision)

    tActivityResource::resourceRef is a required attribute, but should be optional - in case the resource is resolved via a ResourceAssigmnentExpression there won't be any statically assigned resourceRef (except for a dummy, which is how I resolved the problem in the example).

    <performer resourceRef="dummy">
    <!-Issue: If specified via an expression, a resourceRef is not needed, i.e., the attribute must not be required.->
    <resourceAssignmentExpression>
    <formalExpression>getInputData()/resource</formalExpression>
    </resourceAssignmentExpression>
    </performer>

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Replace Figure 10.7 (pg 161)
    Update the UML metamodel, giving the ActivityResource.resourceRef association a multiplicity of [0..1]
    (b) Update Table 10.5 (pg 162)
    Specify a multiplicity of [0...1] for the resourceRef association
    New description for resourceRef: The Resource that is associated with the Activity. Should not be specified when a resourceAssignmentExpression is provided.
    Append to description for resourceAssignmentExpression: Should not be specified when a resourceRef is provided.
    Append to description for resourceParameterBindings: Is only applicable if a resourceRef is specified.
    (c) Update Table 10.30 (pg 175)
    Replacement XSD snippet
    <xsd:complexType name="tActivityResource">
    <xsd:complexContent>
    <xsd:extension base="tBaseElement">
    <xsd:choice>
    <xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:element name="resourceRef" type="xsd:QName"/>
    <xsd:element ref="resourceParameterBinding" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:element ref="resourceAssignmentExpression" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
    </xsd:choice>
    </xsd:extension>
    </xsd:complexContent>
    </xsd:complexType>
    [Note: a consequence of formalizing in the XSD as a 'choice' is that the resourceRef is now an element instead of an attribute]
    (d) Update Table 10.19 (pgs 181-182)
    Replace the 'resourceRef' attributes with equivalent 'resourceRef' elements.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Section 10.3.1 Data Inputs and Outputs: Schema change: change minOccurs of inputSet for ioSpecification from 0 to 1

  • Key: BPMN2-165
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14719
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The spec says that there must be one InputSet for an ioSpecification. The schema has the minOcurrs at 0. The schema should be changed so that minOccurs is 1.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Spec update: Update the XSD snippet for tInputOutputSpecification (table 10.67) in the spec
    (a) <xsd:element ref="inputSet" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    (b) <xsd:element ref="outputSet" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    Note that the actual XSD is already correct. Only the snippet in the spec needs updating.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Beta 1: Set the name attribute of DataInputs and DataOutputs to optional

  • Key: BPMN2-172
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14726
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    Names are not require for all DataInputs and DataOutputs. Names would be used mainly for the ones that are shown graphically on the diagram.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Change the name attribute for both DataInput and DataOutput to be optional.
    (a) Table 10.53 DataInput attributes and model associations, name attribute row, first column: change "string" to "string [0..1]
    (b) Table 10.54 DataOutput attributes and model associations, name attribute row, first column: change "string" to "string [0..1]
    (c) Table 10.65 DataInput XML schema: Change "attribute name="name" type="xsd:string"" to "attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="optional""
    (c) Table 10.70 DataOutput XML schema: Change "attribute name="name" type="xsd:string"" to "attribute name="name" type="xsd:string" use="optional""
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

V0.9.9.1: Display of Messages and Associations in Choreography

  • Key: BPMN2-171
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14725
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    This was generated from the example for <a href="http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-329" title="Provide example: Process within Collaboration">BPMN-329</a>.
    The current examples of Choreography show Messages connected to ChoreographyTasks through Associations. However, there are additional semantics to these connections. The semantics could be derived from the ChoreographyTask definiition, but we should investigate whether the display of the Message on the diagram requires any additional MM changes or whether this is purely a diagram display issue.
    Section 12, Beta 1 Spec

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution will clarify the use of the Message icon with Choreography Tasks.
    (a) Add a new paragraph below Figure 12.11: add new paragraph after the second paragraph (starting with "The three (3) bands...":
    "The Message sent by either one or both of the Participants of the Choreography Task can be displayed (see Figure 12.10, above). The Message icon is shown
    tethered to the Participant that is the sender of the Message."
    (b) After the new paragraph (item a), add a specification bullet (diamond bullet): "If the Message is the initiating Message of the Choreography Task, then the Message
    icon MUST be unfilled."
    (c) After the new bullet (item b), add a specification bullet (diamond bullet): "if the Message is a return Message for the Choreography Task, then the Message icon
    MUST have a light fill."
    (d) After the new bullet (item c), add a new paragraph: "Note that Messages can be tethered to a Call Choreography that references a GlobalChoreographyTask, but
    cannot be used for Sub-Choreographies or Call Choreography that references another Choreography."
    (e) Delete Figure 8.33
    (f) Delete the paragraph above Figure 8.33
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

XSD DataAssociation should own source and target refs and mistake in text spec

  • Key: BPMN2-164
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14718
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Object Management Group ( Mr. Mariano Benitez)
  • Summary:

    [OMG 14718] XSD DataAssociation should own source and target refs and mistake in text spec

    ##Source: Oracle (Mariano Benitez, mariano.benitez@oracle.com)
    ##Original Issue: http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-501
    ##Original Info: (Severity: Significant - Nature: Revision)

    According to the spec text, DataInputAssociation and DataOutputAssociation do not define any attribute.

    In the XSD they both own define sourceRef and TargetRef.

    These elements should be part of the parent class. (there is no problem in moving them up since both definitions are similar (cardinality and types).

    Also:

    In page 202 of Beta 1 it says:
    "The DataInputAssociation element inherits the attributes and model associations of FlowElement (see Table 10-62), but does not contain any additional attributes or model associations."

    But it should say DataAssociation.

    Comments:
    From: mariano.benitez created: Tue, 5 May 2009 09:05:19 -0500 (CDT)
    Proposal for text fix, just replace flowelement with dataassociation.

    From: mariano.benitez created: Tue, 5 May 2009 09:06:35 -0500 (CDT)
    Steve, I just attached the fix for the text issue, can you apply it?

    Regarding the MM (XSD) change, it's not that critical to add it, but it could help.

    From: trickovic created: Wed, 6 May 2009 04:27:47 -0500 (CDT)
    As per 5/4 BPMN team meeting - the issue is valid but to be deferred.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 10.3.1
    For both DataInputAssociation and DataOutputAssociation paragraphs, replace FlowElement (see Table 10.58), with DataAssociation (see Table 10.57).
    In XML Schemas:
    Table 10.64 DataAssociation XML Schema, add the following elements:
    <xsd:element name="sourceRef" type="xsd:QName" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    <xsd:element name="targetRef" type="xsd:QName" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
    Table 10.66 DataInputAssociation XML Schema and Table 10.71 - DataOutputAssociation XML schema, remove the following:
    <xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:element name="sourceRef" type="xsd:IDREF" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    <xsd:element name="targetRef" type="xsd:IDREF" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

DataAssociations: How do we support literals?

  • Key: BPMN2-163
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14717
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Object Management Group ( Mr. Mariano Benitez)
  • Summary:

    DataAssociations and Assigments correctly allow mapping between data elements.

    Now, there is no way to do a simple mapping of a literal to a data input.

    An assignment could be used to solve the problem, but then you are forced to include a dummy sourceRef to fullfil the requirement of at least one source ref.

    A simple solution would be to allow 0 zero source refs, and keeping the restriction of the scope of the assignment to the souce refs.

    Comments:
    From: trickovic created: Wed, 6 May 2009 04:28:07 -0500 (CDT)
    As per 5/4 BPMN team meeting - the issue is valid but to be deferred.

    From: mariano.benitez created: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:19:27 -0500 (CDT)
    testing comments... sorry

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Update the UML metamodel, changing the multiplicity of DataAssociation.sourceRef from 1..* to 0..*
    Replace Figure 10.61 (pg 230)
    (b) Update Table 10.57 (pg 231)
    Change the multiplicity of the sourceRef association to 0..*
    (c) Update Tables 10.64, 10.66, 10.71 (schema snippets) to match the updated metamodel
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Metaelement missing for DI to show connection between ChoreographyActivity to Message

  • Key: BPMN2-162
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14716
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    The metamodel does not have a element for DI to use for connecting
    ChoreographyActivity and Message (derivable from ChoreographyActivity to
    Message Flow to Message). Associations should not be used for links
    that are derivable from the semantic metamodel.

    Comments:
    From: trickovic created: Wed, 6 May 2009 03:38:35 -0500 (CDT)
    As per 5/4 BPMN team meeting - the issue to be deferred.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue is outdated given the rewrite of Chapter 13 (Diagram Interchange) under issue 14423
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Beta 1: Section 10.4 Events: Statement "Signals are triggers generated in the Pool they are published" needs clarificati

  • Key: BPMN2-170
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14724
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    OMG 14724] Beta 1: Section 10.4 Events: Statement "Signals are triggers generated in the Pool they are published" needs clarification

    ##Source: IBM (Stephen A. White, wstephe@us.ibm.com)
    ##Original Issue: http://www.osoa.org/jira/browse/BPMN-486
    ##Original Info: (Severity: Minor - Nature: Enhancement)

    in the Concepts sub-section there is the following statement: "Signals are triggers generated in the Pool they are published."
    This is not clear. It implies that Signals are limited to being sent and received in the same Process, which is not true.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 10.4.1 Concepts
    2nd paragraph
    Original
    They typically describe B2B communication. When Messages need to reach a specific Process instance, correlation is used to identify the particular instance. Signals
    are triggers generated in the Pool they are published.
    Proposal
    They are generally used for B2B communication between different Processes in different Pools.. When Messages need to reach a specific Process instance, correlation
    is used to identify the particular instance. Signals are triggers generated in the Pool they are published in. They are typically used for broadcast communication within
    and across Processes, across Pools, and between Business Process Diagrams.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

XSD: Data Association sourceRef and targetRef should be of type QName

  • Key: BPMN2-173
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14727
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Oracle ( Ralf Mueller)
  • Summary:

    Consider a Call Activity that invokes another Process:
    <callActivity id="CallActivity"
    calledElement="tns:CalledProcessNotServiceEnabled">
    <dataInputAssociation>
    <sourceRef>MyOrder</sourceRef>
    <targetRef>Order</targetRef>
    </dataInputAssociation>
    <dataOutputAssociation>
    <sourceRef>Result</sourceRef>
    <targetRef>MyResult</targetRef>
    </dataOutputAssociation>
    </callActivity>
    In above sample, the targetRef of the data input association refers to a DataInput object of process 'CalledProcessNotServiceEnabled'
    and the sourceRef of the data output association refers to a DataOutput object of the called process.

    The proposal is to modify the XML-Schema type of sourceRef and targetRef from xsd:IDREF to xsd:QName to allow references to
    processes and global tasks data input/output that appear in potentially separate BPMN definitions.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The XML-Schema and the tables 10.66 and 10.71 were not consistent. The proper definition is that sourceRef and targetRef are xsd:IDREF. Technically this is a
    close, no change but we are fixing the inconsistency here.
    The XML-Schema for sourceRef and targetRef to be changed from xsd:QName to xsd:IDREF.
    Tables 10.66, 10.71 are correct.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Beta 1 Section 13.2.4 ChoreographyActivityShape: Add Choreography Activity Bands to DI model

  • Key: BPMN2-161
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14715
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    The current DI model doesn't specify the Participant Bands of the shape and should be added. These bands can vary in shading and Association connections to the shape (of a Message) are dependent on the sender of the Message (i.e., the Participant of the appropriate Band).

    Comments:
    From: trickovic created: Wed, 6 May 2009 03:41:57 -0500 (CDT)
    As per 5/4 BPMN team meeting - the issue to be deferred.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue is outdated given the rewrite of Chapter 13 (Diagram Interchange) under issue 14423
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

logic error in the PDF document

  • Key: BPMN2-98
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14564
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Dresden University of Technology ( Frank Toeppel)
  • Summary:

    maybe I’m wrong, but it seems there’s a logic error in the PDF document mentioned above:

    • Figure 12.36 shows a Choreography starting with communication from A (initiator) to B. Depending on message content based decision next message will be sent from A to B (decision YES) or from A to C (decision NO).
    • Comparing that to the corresponding Collaboration in Figure 12.37 I detected a mismatch, within Pool A the gateway acts inverse: If decision YES message M3 will be sent from A to C, and if decision NO message will be sent from A to B
    • Looks like content of pool A should be adapted (decision YES should result in message from A to B)

    Furthermore there seems to be an offset to Figure indices listed in some chapters vs. the real Figure numbers:

    • Check chapter 10.2.8 (Loop Characteristics in Process Diagrams)
    • Scroll to page 169 (PDF document page 199), chapter Standard Loop Characteristics
    • You will find a link to Figure 10.42 and 10.43 (see Figure 10.42 and Figure 10.43)
    • Corresponding figures instead are 10.43 and 10.44
    • This offset stuff starts somewhere before in the document, maybe an additional picture has been added
  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Replace Figure 12.36 with a figure that has the positioning of the Participants in the Participant Bands more consistent. See here:
    (Replacement+for+Figure+12.36.jpg)
    (b) Replace Figure 12.37 with a figure that sequence of activities are matching those of Figure 12.36. See here:
    (10571_Replacement+for+Figure+12.37.jpg)
    (c) Section 10.2.8 Loop Characteristics, Sub-Section Standard Loop Characteristics, page 169 (199 pdf), first bullet in section: replace "Figure 10.42" with "Figure
    10.43" and replace "Figure 10.43" with "Figure 10.44."
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Target namespace mismatch between the XML Schemas in the spec (PDF) and the XML Schemas files (XSD)

  • Key: BPMN2-97
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14559
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Mr. Olivier Modica)
  • Summary:

    There is currently a mismatch between the target namespace of the XML Schemas in the spec (PDF) and the XML Schemas files (XSD) themselves. This applies to Beta 1.

    In the PDF specification that are several instances where the target namespace for the XML Schemas is defined as “http://www.omg.org/bpmn20”:

    • Table 8.2 (page 44)
    • Table 8.16 (page 53)
    • Table 10.19 (page 150)

    However the latest available XML Schemas (bmi/09-05-05) have the target namespace set to “http://schema.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0”.

    If the XML Schemas are correct then the specification should reflect the same target namespace.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Table 8.2, page 44 (74 pdf), first row, second column: change "http://www.omg.org/bpmn20" to "http://schema.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0"
    (b) Table 8.16, page 53 (83 pdf), forth line: change "http://www.omg.org/bpmn20" to "http://schema.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0"
    (c) Table 8.16, page 53 (83 pdf), fifth line: change "http://www.omg.org/bpmn20" to "http://schema.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0"
    (d) Table 8.16, page 53 (83 pdf), 115h line: change "http://www.omg.org/bpmn20" to "http://schema.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0"
    (e) Table 10.19, page 150 (180 pdf), 115h line: change "http://www.omg.org/bpmn20" to "http://schema.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0"
    Note on 2010-04-26:
    The FTF acknowldges the proposed namespace does not follow OMG guidelines for namespace conventions. The final namespaces will be:

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Clarification on relationship between MEP and Choreography Task in BPMN2

  • Key: BPMN2-95
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14548
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Red Hat ( Gary Brown)
  • Summary:

    PDF page 337, page 307:
    "A single MEP is defined as a BPMN Choreography Task (see page 350). Thus, a Choreography defines the order
    in which Choreography Tasks occur. Choreography Sub-Processes allow the composition/decomposition of
    Choreographies."

    If the MEP has a request, response and multiple faults how will the choreography identify which subsequent path based on a decision relates to each response.

    Would propose changing wording to "A single MEP can be defined ..." - allowing an MEP to be defined across separate Choreography Tasks, enabling the decision point and relevant paths based on each response type to be explicitly defined in the choreography. However this may require some additional mechanism to correlate the separate choreography tasks as belonging to the same MEP.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 9 Oct 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    PDF page 337, page 307:
    Change: "A single MEP is defined as a BPMN Choreography Task"
    To: "A single MEP can be defined as a BPMN Choreography Task"
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Initiating message flow for ChoreographyTask

  • Key: BPMN2-94
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14546
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: NIST ( Mr. Conrad Bock)
  • Summary:

    In BPMN Core Structure, Common Elements,
    Message, second figure, text underneath
    refers to a list of messages for a
    choreography task, but the association
    between ChoreographyTask and MessageFlow
    is not ordered. Or the initial message
    flow of a Choreography Task could be
    identified by a new association if it is not
    intended to order all the messages.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 8 Oct 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Choreography Tasks can have at most two message flows, with one participant per message flow, see resolution of issue 14890. The initiating message flow can be
    identified from the initiating participant
    Under Figure 8.29 (A non-initiating Message), replace the bullet sentence with "Any Message sent by the non-initiating Participant or SubChoreography MUST be
    shaded with a light fill.
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 160, Figure 10-6 vs. Table 10-3. The "property" class is not depicted in the class diagram Figure 10-6

  • Key: BPMN2-92
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14542
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Page 160, Figure 10-6 vs. Table 10-3. The "property" class is not depicted in the class diagram (Figure 10-6) but listed in the attribute (Table10-3).

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 8 Oct 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Figure 10.6 will be updated to include the Property class. The updated figure is shown here:
    (10562_Update+to+Figure+10.6.jpg)
    .
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 161, Table 10-3, Error in attribute name. "resources" should be "activityResource"

  • Key: BPMN2-91
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14541
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Page 161, Table 10-3, Error in attribute name. "resources" should be "activityResource"

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 8 Oct 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 14710 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 161, Table 10-3, Issues regarding properties in the Activity attribute table

  • Key: BPMN2-93
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14543
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Page 161, Table 10-3, Issues regrading properties: 1)The text describes properties as being "local" to the activity, yet contibues to mentione a deliation with the activity name as a prefix. If it is local why would we need the activity name as a prefix?
    2) Although I uderstand using the name of the peorperty for presentation in a tool interface, we do not have a guarantee that the name will be unique.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 8 Oct 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Table 10.3, description for the Properties attribute, page 129 (159 pdf), second sentence: Change " "local" to" to "contained within"
    (b) Table 10.3, description for the Properties attribute, page 129 (159 pdf): delete third sentence
    (c) Table 10.1, description for the Properties attribute, page 125 (155 pdf), second sentence: Change " "local" to" to "contained within"
    (d) Table 10.1, description for the Properties attribute, page 129 (159 pdf): delete 4th and 5th sentence
    Disposition: Resolved

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Allow Choreography Task to have more than 2 Participants

  • Key: BPMN2-96
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14551
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: BPM Advantage Consulting ( Dr. Stephen White)
  • Summary:

    A Choreography Task now can have only two Participants. But there are situations where one Participant may send the same message to more than one other Participant. Multiple Choreography Tasks would be needed to do this, where it could be done with one if this change was made

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 8 Oct 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The available use cases for this issue are not strong enough to change the specification.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Figure 10.2 - A Conditional Sequence Flow

  • Key: BPMN12-29
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11689
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: AspectWorks ( Daniel Albrecht)
  • Summary:

    A Sequence Flow that has an Exclusive Data-Based Gateway or an activity as its source can also be defined with a condition expression of Default. Such Sequence Flow will have a marker to show that it is a Default flow. I believe that the condition expression of Default can be set to Sequence Flow that has an Inclusive Gateway as its source as well as the above mentioned. It naturally results from what is written on page 82 about Inclusive Gateways diverging behaviour

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

precisions about the Signal Event

  • Key: BPMN12-22
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11677
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Sylvain Astier)
  • Summary:

    I would appreciate some precisions about the Signal Event. Initially
    we intended not to have any data associated with it. Yet it has some
    properties. I think it makes sense; we indeed need to associate
    technical information such as the Name or Id of the instance that
    raised it, as well as its TimeStamp. I want to make sure those are
    not supposed to be business data. Also I think this part is under
    specified, we need to further explain what kind of mechanism should be
    used to "listen" to such events, (publish/subscribe pattern ?) as well
    as how long such messages are supposed to be kept alive. For instance
    on Figure 10.48 (Adobe 322) what is supposed to happen if "B
    Completed" is raised before the upper sub process is ready to receive it
    ?

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Common Gateway Features

  • Key: BPMN12-21
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11676
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Sylvain Astier)
  • Summary:

    Common Gateway Features (Adobe p97): "an Gateway MUST NOT .. " and
    "An Gateway MUST NOT.."

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    The following minor text modifications will be made to the BPMN 1.1 Specification

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Figure 9.23 - An Inclusive Decision using Conditional Sequence Flow

  • Key: BPMN12-28
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11688
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: AspectWorks ( Daniel Albrecht)
  • Summary:

    A source Gateway MUST NOT be of type AND (Parallel). A assume that the gateway MUST NOT be of type XOR as well.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.0b1 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    In this case, a Gateway can be Exclusive (XOR), but it cannot be Complex. Thus, the text
    requires a modification

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Figure A.35

  • Key: BPMN12-27
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11682
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Sylvain Astier)
  • Summary:

    Figure A.35: intermediate link event should be used

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    The following minor figure modification will be made to the BPMN 1.1 Specification

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Figure A.33 is missing an artefact

  • Key: BPMN12-25
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11680
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Sylvain Astier)
  • Summary:

    Figure A.33 is missing an artefact next to the loop symbol to
    specify it is an unfolded sub-process

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close, No Change: This item requested is not a graphical element of the BPMN 1.1 Specification.
    There is another issue (Issue 10384), which will be closed and deferred to BPMN 2.0 that will add
    such a graphical element
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, no change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Figure A.31 is an invalid BPMN 1.1 model

  • Key: BPMN12-24
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11679
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Sylvain Astier)
  • Summary:

    Figure A.31 is an invalid BPMN 1.1 model (sequence flow pointing to
    text, Intermediate Link Event should be used instead)

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    The following minor figure modifications will be made to the BPMN 1.1 Specification

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Sequence Flow Connection

  • Key: BPMN12-19
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11674
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Sylvain Astier)
  • Summary:

    Sequence Flow Connection (Adobe p72): "an exception to this: an Source link.."

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This item has already be fixed in the BPMN 1.1 specification.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, no change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Glossary issue

  • Key: BPMN12-18
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11673
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Sylvain Astier)
  • Summary:

    Glossary (Adobe p290): under Result – "A result is consequence of
    reaching an End Event. Results can be of different types, including:
    Message, Error, Compensation, Link and Multiple" Link shall be removed

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    The following minor text modification will be made to the BPMN 1.1 Specification

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Glossary (Adobe p321): under Trigger

  • Key: BPMN12-20
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11675
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Sylvain Astier)
  • Summary:

    Glossary (Adobe p321): under Trigger: "A trigger is a mechanism that
    signals the start of a business process. Triggers are associated with
    a Start Events and Intermediate Events and can be of the type:
    Message, Timer, Rule, Link, and Multiple" 'Rule' shall be renamed to
    'Conditional' and 'a Start Events' should be 'a Start Event'

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    The following minor text modifications will be made to the BPMN 1.1 Specification

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Figure A.34 is missing an artefact

  • Key: BPMN12-26
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11681
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Sylvain Astier)
  • Summary:

    Figure A.34 is missing an artefact to specify it is an unfolded
    sub-process, also intermediate link events should be used.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    The following minor figure modifications will be made to the BPMN 1.1 Specification. Note
    that there is no standard icon to show that the Sub-Process is unfolded in the figure. This will be
    done in BPMN 2.0.

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Figure A.30 is an invalid BPMN 1.1 model

  • Key: BPMN12-23
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11678
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Sylvain Astier)
  • Summary:

    • Figure A.30 is an invalid BPMN 1.1 model (message flows are not
    correct, a gateway has two defaults outgoing path, ..)

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    The following minor figure modification will be made to the BPMN 1.1 Specification

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Table A.10 editorial

  • Key: BPMN12-16
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11671
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Sylvain Astier)
  • Summary:

    Table A.10 (Adobe p76): "if the Error Event does has an ErrorCode.."

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    The following minor text modification will be made to the BPMN 1.1 Specification

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Table A.10

  • Key: BPMN12-15
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11670
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Sylvain Astier)
  • Summary:

    Table A.10 (Adobe p176): "this will map to a throw element". There's
    only one element allowed to throw errors and that is the
    Error-End-Event. This should be fully specified to avoid possible
    confusion with the non-existing intermediate-throw-error event

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This issue is out of scope for the RTF and will be addressed by the response to
    the BPMN 2.0 RFP.
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Table 9.13

  • Key: BPMN12-14
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11669
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Sylvain Astier)
  • Summary:

    Table 9.13 (Adobe p75): "for an Intermediate Event within Normal
    Flow: if the Trigger is an Error, then the ErrorCode MUST be entered.
    This "throws" the error." This indicates that an Intermediate Event
    can "throw" an error, which conflicts with Figure 9.5. I guess it
    should be 'catches' instead of 'throws'.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    The following minor text modification will be made to the BPMN 1.1 Specification

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Glossary

  • Key: BPMN12-17
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11672
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Sylvain Astier)
  • Summary:

    Glossary (Adobe p290): End Event - "End Event Results are Message,
    Error, Compensation, Link, and Multiple" Link shall be removed

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    The following minor text modification will be made to the BPMN 1.1 Specification

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Table 9.2

  • Key: BPMN12-13
  • Legacy Issue Number: 11668
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Axway Software ( Sylvain Astier)
  • Summary:

    Table 9.2 (Adobe p66): under "error" the description reads ".. if no
    activity in the has such.." a word seems to be missing

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 1.2
  • Disposition Summary:

    Suggested Resolution:
    Close, No Change: This item has already been fixed in the BPMN 1.1 specification
    Revised Text: None
    Disposition: Closed, no change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

The case of some attribute name is not consistent.

  • Key: BPMN2-3
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14244
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jun 08, 2009

    It seems that lower case is the standard, but some attributes like
    ReceiveTask.Instanciate, UserTask.Imlementation for example, but there are
    other attributes as well.

    The same comment applies to type name string vs String, Boolean vs
    Boolean, etc…

    Comment 1 by hudoneric, Jun 09, 2009

    The case of the gatewayDirection on p.111 is lower case. The values of other
    enumerations in the document are capitalized.

    Comment 2 by hudoneric, Jun 10, 2009

    Same thing for multi-instance behavior on p.203.

    Comment 3 by hudoneric, Jun 10, 2009

    The case of the enumeration UserTaskImplementation is not the same in the
    specification (p. 179) and the schema (p. 181).

    Comment 4 by hudoneric, Jun 10, 2009

    The case of the methodon p.192is lower case. The values of other
    enumerations in the document are capitalized.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Table 10.10, page 140 (170 pdf), second row, first column: Change "Instantiate:" to "instantiate:"
    (b) Table 10.13, page 146 (176 pdf), first row, first column: Change "Implementation:" to "implementation:"
    (c) Table 10.2, page 135 (165 pdf), first row, first column: Change "String:" to "string:"
    (d) Table 8.47, page 80 (110 pdf), first row, first column: Change "unspecified | converging | diverging |mixed" to "Unspecified | Converging | Diverging |Mixed"
    (e) Table 8.47, page 80 (110 pdf), first row, second column: Change "unspecified" to "Unspecified", "converging" to "Converging ", "diverging" to "Diverging", and
    "mixed" to "Mixed"
    (f) Figure 8.25, page 79 (109 pdf): Capitalize the items within the GatewayDirection enumeration.
    (g) Table 10.26, page 172 (202 pdf), second row on page, first column: Change "none | one | all | complex" to "None | One | All | Complex"
    (h) Table 10.26, page 172 (202 pdf), second row on page, second column: Change "none" to "None", "one" to "One", "all" to "All ", and "complex" to "Complex"
    Table 10.13, page 146 (176 pdf), first row, first column: Change all types of UserTaskImplementation from uppercase to lowercase
    Note that some of the changes to the case of key words such as string, boolean, and integer or the case of enumeration values were not documented.
    Disposition: Resolved
    Voting Record: 22 Yes, 0 No, 3 Abstain (Votes)
    OMG Issue No: 14246
    Title: Page 227 Table 10-56 the attributes optionalOutput and whileExecutingOuput are wrongly typed DataInput
    Source: Trisotech (Denis Gagne dgagne@trisotech.com)
    Severity: Significant
    Summary: (

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Typos

  • Key: BPMN2-2
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14243
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    BPMN 2 FTF typos

    Issue 13: Page 79, Table 8-8 Typo extensionAttributeDefinitions is typed ExtensionDefinition

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jun 08, 2009

    On p.79, Table 8-8 the attribute extensionAttributeDefinitions is typed
    ExtensionDefinition, it should be typed ExtensionAttributeDefinition.

    ==========================================================================

    Issue 30: Page 141, Table 8-81 Typo in type definition "s" added

    callableElements should be of type CallableElement and not CallableElements

    ==================================================================

    Issue 32: Page 283, Figure 10-90 Typo "CancelEventDefinition" should be reploaced by "TerminateEventDefinition"

    Reported by hudoneric, Jun 25, 2009

    On p. 283 of the specification, we can read CancelEventDefinition element
    inherits...

    Since a TerminateEventDefinition exists, I assume that this is what should
    go there.

    =========================================================================

    Issue 62 : Page 307, section 10.5.6 Copy/paste Typo "Start Event" should be "Event Gateway"

    Comment 1 by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 10, 2009
    In second structural specification Start Event should be replaced by Event
    Gateway.

    =================================================================

    Issue 63: Page 316, section 10.7 Copy/Paste Typo "Pool" should be replaced by "Lane"

    In second structural specificatio Pool should be replaced by Lane

    =========================================================================

    Issue 74: Page 049, Table 7-1, Typo word "is' extra

    For the element "Pool" the second sentence of the descriptive text is: "It
    is also acts as a “swimlane” and a graphical container for partitioning a
    set of Activities from other Pools, usually in the context of B2B
    situations."
    The word "is" at the beginning of the sentence should be deleted.

    =========================================================================

    Issue 75: Page 052, Table 7-2, Typo missing "a" before Process

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 01, 2009

    For element "Activity" the first sentence is: "An Activity is a generic
    term for work that company performs (see page 159) in Process."

    The word "a" shoud be added before the word "process".

    ===================================================================

    Issue 76: Page 053, Table 7-2, Typo missing "or" in sentence

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 01, 2009

    For element "Choreography Task", the last sentence of the descption
    is:"There are two (2) more Participant Bands and one Task Name Band."

    The word "or" shoud be added after the "two (2)".

    Comment 1 by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 06, 2009
    For element "Choreography Task", the last sentence of the descption
    is:"There are two (2) more Participant Bands and one Task Name Band."

    The word "or" shoud be added after the "two (2)".

    Summary: Page 053, Table 7-2, Typo missing "or" in sentence
    Labels: Validated
    Comment 2 by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 07, 2009
    Same apply to last sentence of page 351.

    Comment 3 by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 07, 2009
    Also apply to Page 356, Section 12.4.2, last sentence of second paragraph.

    ====================================================================

    Issue 80: Page 087, Typo "a" should be "are"

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 01, 2009

    In sub-section "Common Artifact Definitions", the sentence reads:"The
    following sections provide definitions that a common to all Artifacts."

    "That a common" should be replaced by "that are common".

    =====================================================================

    Issue 82: Page 124, Section 8.3.15, Typo Missing "are" in frist sentence

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 01, 2009

    The first sentence of Section 8.3.15 is: "A Participant represents a
    specific PartnerEntity (e.g., a company) and/or a more general PartnerRole
    (e.g., a buyer, seller, or manufacturer) that Participants in a
    collaboration."

    The word "are" should be added to read " ..... that are Participants in a
    collaboration."

    =====================================================================

    Issue 83: Page 145, Section 9, Typo missing "in"

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 02, 2009

    Page 145, last paragraph, first sentence reads: "In some applications it
    is useful to allow more Messages to be sent between Participants when a
    Collaboration is carried out than are contained the Collaboration model."

    The word "in" should be added, for the sentence later part to read: " ....
    are contained in the Collaboration model."

    ======================================================================

    Issue 84: Page 146, Section 9.1 Typo word "main" should be "may"

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 02, 2009

    Section 9.1, second paragraph, first sentence reads:"A Pool may be empty,
    a “black box,” or main show a Process within."

    The word "main" should be replaced by "may".

    ======================================================================

    Issue 87: Page 163, Section 10.2, Typo "An" should replace "A"

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 02, 2009

    In page 163, the second structural specification (just before section
    10.2.1) reads: "A Activity MAY be a source for Message Flow; it can have
    zero or more outgoing Message Flow."

    The first word of the sentence "A" should be replaced by the word "An".

    ======================================================================

    Issue 88: Page 188, Section "Event Sub-Process", Typo missing "is"

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 02, 2009

    The frst sentence after the sub-section title "Event Sub-Process"
    reads: "An Event Sub-Process is a specialized Sub-Process that used within
    a Process (or Sub-Process)."

    The word "is" should be added for the sentence to read: "An Event Sub-
    Process is a specialized Sub-Process that is used within a Process (or Sub-
    Process)."

    ====================================================================

    Issue 89: Page 188, sub-section "Event Sub-Process" Typo

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 02, 2009

    The last structural specification of page 188 reads: "The use of text,
    color, size, and lines for a Sub-Process MUST follow the rules defined in
    Section “Use of Text, Color, Size, and Lines in a Diagram” on page 63 with
    the exception that:"

    The words " a Sub-Process MUST" should be replaced by "an Event Sub-
    Process MUST".

    ====================================================================

    Issue 91: Page 231, sub-section "DataInputAssociation", Typo "an" vs "a"

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 02, 2009

    The first sentence of page 231 reads: "The DataInputAssociation can be
    used to associate a item-aware element with a DataInput contained in
    an Activity."

    The word "a" before "item-aware" should be replaced by the word "an".

    ===================================================================

    Issue 94: Page 308, Section 10.5.6, Typo Replace "follow" by "following"

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 02, 2009

    The fifth structural specification in page 308, reads: "Only the following
    Intermediate Event triggers are valid: Message, Signal, Timer,
    Conditional, and Multiple (which can only include the previous triggers).
    Thus, the follow Intermediate Event triggers are not valid: Error, Cancel,
    Compensation, and Link."

    The word "follow" in the second sentence of the specification should be
    replaced by "following".

    =================================================================

    Issue 95: Page 320, Section 10.8, Typo missing word "in"

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 02, 2009

    Section 10.8, second paragraph, first sentence reads: "In some
    applications it is useful to allow more Activities and Events to occur
    when a Process is executed or performed than are contained the Process
    model."

    The word "in" should be added for the end of the sentence to read " ....
    than are contained in the Process model."

    ================================================================

    Issue 100: Page 343, Section 12, Typo Two verbs used instead of one

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 07, 2009

    The sentence above Figure 12-2 reads: "Figure 12-1 shows displays the
    metamodel ...".

    One of the two verbs, "shows" or "displays" should be deleted.

    ===============================================================

    Issue 109: Page 367, Section 12.4.6, Typo, word "will" to be deleted

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 07, 2009

    The second sentence of page 367 reads: "The Choreography Task that has two
    Messages will is reflected by three Process Tasks."

    The word "will" should be deleted.

    ==============================================================

    Issue 112: Page 164, Table 10-5, Typo "s" added to Type

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 08, 2009

    There is also a typo on p. 164. resourceParameterBindings should be of
    type
    ResourceParameterBinding and not ResourceParameterBindings.

    ==============================================================

    Issue 121: Page 361 Section 12.4.3 Typo "collpased" instead of "collapsed"

    Reported by hudoneric, Jul 27, 2009

    On page Page 361 Section 12.4.3 "collpased" should be read "collapsed". The
    text is located on the third bullet of the section 12.4.3.

    =============================================================

    Issue 124: Page 044, Figure 7-4, Page 345 Figure 12-2 and Page 394 Figure 12-50 Typo in the figure

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    The last Choreography activity in Figure 7-4, Figure 12-2 and Figure 12-
    50 should be labeled "Handle Medecine".

    ====================================================================

    Issue 134: Page 264 Table 10-85 Typo in table caption "cancel Activity" should be "cancelActivity"

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    Page 264 Table 10-85 Typo in table caption "cancel Activity" should
    be "cancelActivity"

    ========================================================================

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Table 8.8, page 48 (78 pdf), second row, first column: Change "ExtensionDefinition" to "ExtensionAttributeDefinition"
    (b) Table 8.80, page 108 (138 pdf), third row, first column: Change "CallableElements" to "CallableElement"
    (c) Section 10.4.4 Event Definitions, Sub-Section "Terminate Event," page 251 (281 pdf), first sentence on page: Change "CancelEventDefintion" to
    "TerminateEventDefinition"
    (d) Section 10.5.6 Event Gateway, page 274 (304 pdf), second bullet on page: Change "a Start Event" to "an Event Gateway"
    (e) Section 10.7 Lanes, page 282 (312 pdf), second bullet on page: Change "Pool" to "Lane" three times in bullet
    (f) Table 7.1, page 22 (52 pdf), first row on page, second column: Change "It is also acts" to "It also acts"
    (g) Table 7.2, page 33 (63 pdf), second row on page, second column: Change "It is also acts" to "It also acts"
    (h) Table 7.1, page 21 (51 pdf), second row on page, second column: Change "in Process" to "in a Process"
    Table 7.2, page 24 (54 pdf), second row on page, second column: Change "in Process" to "in a Process"
    (j) Table 7.2, page 24 (54 pdf), last row on page, second paragraph: change "two (2) more" to "two (2) or more"
    (k) Section 12.4.1 Choreography Task, page 316 (346 pdf), second paragraph on page, last sentence in paragraph: change "two (2) more" to "two (2) or more"
    (l) Section 12.4.2 Choreography Sub-Process, page 321 (351 pdf), first paragraph in section, last sentence in paragraph: change "two (2) more" to "two (2) or more"
    (m) Section 13.2.5 BPMN Shapes, Sub-Section "ChoreographyActivityShape," page 379 (409 pdf), first paragraph in section, last sentence in paragraph: change
    "two (2) more" to "two (2) or more"
    Section 8.3.1 Artifacts, Sub-Section "Common Artifact Definitions," page 56 (86 pdf), first paragraph in section, first sentence: change "that a common" to "that are
    common"
    (o) Section 8.3.15 Participants, page 91 (121 pdf), first sentence in section: change "that Participants" to "that are Participants"
    (p) Section 9 Collaboration, page 113 (133 pdf), last paragraph on page, first sentence: change "contained the" to "contained in the"
    (q) Section 9.1 Basic Collaboration Concepts, page 114 (144 pdf), second paragraph in section, first sentence: change "or main show" to "or may show"
    (r) Section 10.2.5 Sub-Process, Sub-Section "Event Sub-Process," page 156 (186 pdf), first sentence in section: change "that used within" to "that is used within"
    (s) Section 10.2.5 Sub-Process, Sub-Section "Event Sub-Process," page 156 (186 pdf), sixth bullet in section: change "for a Sub-Process" to "for an Event Sub-
    Process"
    (t) Section 10.3.1 Data Modeling, Sub-Section "DataInputAssociation," page 202 (232 pdf), first sentence in section: change "a item-aware" to "an item-aware"
    (U) Section 10.8 Process Instances, Unmodeled Activities, and Public Processes, page 286 (316 pdf), second paragraph in section, first sentence: change "contained
    the Process" to "contained in the Process"
    (v) Section 12 Choreography, page 318 (338 pdf), paragraph above Figure 12.1, first sentence: change "Figure 12.1 shows displays" to "Figure 12.1 displays"
    (w) Section 12.4.6 The Sequencing of Activities, page 331 (361 pdf), firt paragraph on page, second sentence: change "Messages will is" to "Messages is"
    Table 10.5, page 132 (162 pdf), third row, first column: change "ResourceParameterBindings [0..*]" to "ResourceParameterBinding [0..*]"
    Section 12.4.3 Call Choreography Activity, page 326 (356 pdf), third bullet on page: change "collpased" to "Collapsed"
    (z) Figure 7.4, Figure 12.2, and Figure 12.5: change the Choreography Task label for the last task in the diagram from "Handle Symptoms" to "Handle Medicine"
    (aa) Table 10.85, page 234 (264 pdf), Table Caption: change "cancel Activity" to "cancelActivity"
    Note: a typo reported for page 131 (163 pdf as reported) was no longer valid.
    Note: a typo reported for page 275 (308 pdf as reported) was no longer valid.

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Conformance Classes are overley Broad

  • Key: BPMN2-1
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14240
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Fujitsu ( Tom Rutt)
  • Summary:

    2.1.1 process modeling conformance:
    what could a platform which supports all the diagrams except for conversation
    diagrams claim conformance to? This might be important for migration from BPMN 1
    implementations. Can it claim some form of "partial compliance?

    Proposed Resolution: The FTF should define more granular conformance Classes, to ease migration
    from BPMN 1.2 implementations.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Tue, 1 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Please read the document attached to the link below for a proposal description. We will update the resolution description with more adequate content before we open
    the ballot.
    Conformance+DESCRIPTIVE_ANALYTIC_EXECUTABLE+proposal+for+BPMN2+Spec.doc

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 052, Table 7-2, Wrong figure of all event possibilities

  • Key: BPMN2-6
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14247
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jun 08, 2009

    The old list from BPMN 1.2 is presented there

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Table 7.2, page 24 (54 pdf), first row on page, third column: update figure to match BPMN 2.0 capabilities. See attached figure here:
    (10587_Updated+Event+Type+Figure+for+Table+7.2.jpg)
    (b) Table 7.2, page 24 (54 pdf), first row on page, second column, last sentence in column: change "see page 268" to "see figure to the right"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 227 Table 10-56 the attributes optionalOutput and whileExecutingOuput are wrongly typed DataInput

  • Key: BPMN2-5
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14246
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jun 08, 2009

    On p. 227 the attributes optionalOutput and whileExecutingOuput are typed
    DataInput, they should be typed DataOutput.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Table 10.56, page 199 (229 pdf), row 3, column 1: change "DataInput" to "DataOutput"
    (b) Table 10.56, page 199 (229 pdf), row 4, column 1: change "DataInput" to "DataOutput"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 199 class model for the global tasks

  • Key: BPMN2-4
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14245
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    On p.199, there is a class model for the global tasks, but there no table
    that explains the attributes that are displayed on the diagram like the
    other classes in the document.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In order not to duplicate the information, a reference to the page where tasks are defined is included in that section. So there is no need to add a table describing
    attributes and behaviour, since they are similar to standard tasks.
    Nevertheless, there is a single attribute in Global Task that must be described: performers, which is covered by issue 14732 14732.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 029, Section 2.1.3 Usage of normal bullets vs diamond shape to indicate structural specifications

  • Key: BPMN2-8
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14249
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jun 26, 2009

    Should the list presented use the diamond shape to indicate structural
    specifications?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The semantic rule statements will be shown with a diamond bullet (changed from the letter "u").
    There will be no change markings to indicate these changes

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 199, Figure 10-40 Types of Global Task (Text,Class Diagram and Schema do not match)

  • Key: BPMN2-7
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14248
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by hudoneric, Jun 25, 2009

    On p. 199 of the specification The figure 10-40 Defines 4 types of global
    tasks: User, Manual, Script, BusinessRule.

    The paragraph "Types of Global Task" on p. 199 says that the list of task
    types is the same for globals task and standard tasks.

    When I look at the xml schema (Semantic.xsd) only User, Manual, Script,
    BusinessRule are defined.

    I wonder which one is true, the text or the schema? Also I wonder why the
    global task redefines the same attributes as standard tasks instead of
    referencing them.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The list of Global Tasks is correctly defined in the metamodel and the XSD schema, not all tasks types are allowed as global tasks.
    Replace the following paragraphs in "Types of Global Tasks":

    • This is true for both Global Tasks and standard Tasks, where the list of Task types is the same for both.
    • The behavior, attributes,and model associations defined in that section also apply to the types of Global Tasks.
      with the following text:
    • The types of Global Tasks are only a subset of standard Tasks types. Only GlobalUserTask, GlobalManualTask, GlobalScriptTask and GlobalBusinessRuleTask are
      defined in BPMN.
    • The behavior, attributes, and model associations defined for each type of task in that section apply to the corresponding types of Global Tasks.
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 044, Figure 7-3, Pool names not separated from content by a single line

  • Key: BPMN2-9
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14250
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jun 26, 2009

    Should the Pool names be separated by a single line as stated in the
    structural specification in Section 9.2, page 146.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Figure 7.3 will be updated to include the proper notation for Pools, which is to have the name of the Pool separated by a single line. The updated figure is shown
    here:
    (10543_Figure+7-3+Update.jpg)
    .
    (b) This issue can be applied for a number of other figures in the specification. These figures are:
    Figure 7.2, Figure 7.5, Figure 7.6, Figure 8.14, Figure 8.30, Figure 8.31, Figure 8.36, Figure 8.37, Figure 8.41, Figure 9.5, Figure 9.6, Figure 10.5, Figure 11.1,
    Figure 11.2, Figure 11.3, Figure 11.4, Figure 11.11, 12.50, and Figure 12.51
    The updates to these figures will not be posted.
    (c) Also, there are a few figures for Lanes, which do not have the single line separator, that need to be updated:
    The figure for Lane in Table 7.1, The figure for Lane in Table 7.2,
    The updates to these figures will not be posted here.

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 044, Figure 7-4, The initiating party is wrongly identified in the figure

  • Key: BPMN2-21
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14292
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 06, 2009

    The initial messages and Participant bands are greyed in error, (Reverse
    logic Initiating vs Return)

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Figure 7.4 will be updated to reverse the shading of the Participant Bands. The updated figure can be seen here:
    (10552_Update+to+Figure+7.4.jpg)

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 395, Figure 12-51, Intermediate Event instead of End Event in Choreography diagram

  • Key: BPMN2-20
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14291
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 02, 2009

    The Choreography diagram shown in Figure 12-51 end with an Intermediate
    Event. It should be an End Event.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The problem with Figure 12.51 was a image quality problem. The correct elements were used in the figure.
    The quality of Figure 12.51 has been updated by the resolution of 14250.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 115, Section 8.3.13 Copy/paste

  • Key: BPMN2-19
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14290
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 01, 2009

    The second structural specification of section 8.3.13 should refer
    to "Message" and not "Task".

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In Section 8.3.13, on page 83 (113 pdf), second bullet in section: change "Task" to "Message"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 351, Figure 12-7 Caption of the Figure Name

  • Key: BPMN2-25
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14297
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Figure 12-7 caption is "A Collaboration view of Choreography Task
    elements" is not representative of the figure.

    According to the text above the figure and the diagram, the caption should
    be: "A Collaboration view of the Participants of the Interaction".

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close the issue without change.
    The figure caption accurately represents the figure and no changes are needed.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 348, Section 12.3.1, end of sentence confusing

  • Key: BPMN2-24
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14296
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 07, 2009

    Page 348, last paragraph, first sentence reads: "In some applications it
    is useful to allow more Messages to be sent between Participants when a
    Choreography is carried out than are contained the Choreography model."

    The end of the sentence "... is carried out than are contained in the
    Choreography model." is confusing.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 12.3.1, last non-bullet paragraph in section: replace the first sentence with:
    "In some applications it is useful to allow additional Messages that are not part of the defined Choreography model to be sent between Participants when the
    Choreography is carried out."

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 346, Section 12.1 Reference of Figure 12-4 instead of Figure 12-3?

  • Key: BPMN2-23
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14295
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 07, 2009

    In the first and second paragraphs of page 346 a reference is made to
    Figure 12-4. Should it be to Figure 12-3 instead?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Section 12.1, page 311 (341 pdf), first paragraph, first sentence: change "Figure 12-4" to "Figure 12-3"
    (b) Section 12.1, page 311 (341 pdf), second paragraph, third sentence: change "Figure 12-4" to "Figure 12-3"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 345, Section 12.1 Typo, the word "Events" should be "Activities"

  • Key: BPMN2-22
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14294
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 07, 2009

    The fourth sentence of the last paragraph of page 345, reads: "For
    example, a Planned Order Variations Message is sent by the Supplier to the
    Retailer; the corresponding send and receive have been modeled using
    regular BPMN messaging Events."

    This text refers to the content of Figure 12-3 (mentionned before). No
    Events are shown in this Figure. The word "Events" should be replaced
    by "Activities".

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In Section 12.1, on page 310 (340 pdf), the forth sentence in the last paragraph of page: change "Events" to "Activities"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 372, Table 12-7 Blank sections

  • Key: BPMN2-14
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14255
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jun 29, 2009

    Why are Table sections for Escalation used in normal flow and Escalation
    attached to activity boundary left blank?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Table 12.7: Use of Intermediate Events in Choreography
    (a) Row for Escalation: Used in Normal Flow: add the following in column 2: "No. An Escalation is only visible to a single Participant. That Participant will have to send
    a
    Message to the other Participants."
    (b) Row for Escalation: Attached to Activity boundary: add the following in column 2: "No. An Escalation is only visible to a single Participant. That Participant will
    have to send a
    Message to the other Participants."

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 338, section 11.7 Section name versus content

  • Key: BPMN2-13
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14254
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jun 29, 2009

    Is the tiltle "Communication Link" or "Conversation Link"? Second term
    used in the text and Figure of this section.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In Section 11.7, on page 302 (332 pdf), Section title: change "Communication" to "Conversation"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 064, Section 7.5.1, wrong reference to Table 8.4 (should be Table 7-3)

  • Key: BPMN2-17
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14288
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 01, 2009

    Should the first two words of section 7.5.1 "Table 8.4" be replaced
    by "Table 7-3" ?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In Section 7.5.1, on page 34 (64 pdf), first sentence in first paragraph of section: change "Table 8.4" to "Table 7.3"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 042, Section 7.1.1 Reference to Figure 10-5

  • Key: BPMN2-16
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14257
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 01, 2009

    The last paragraph, first sentence of page 42 is: "A public Process
    represents the interactions between a private Business Process and another
    Process or Participant (see Figure 10-5)."

    Should the reference to Figure 10-5, be replaced by Figure 7-2 presented
    at page 43?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In Section 7.1.1, on page 15 (45 pdf), first sentence in last paragraph on page: change "Figure 10.5" to "Figure 7.2"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 259, Table 10-82, Missing "Catch" label above depiction of Parallel Multiple Event

  • Key: BPMN2-12
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14253
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jun 29, 2009

    The Parallel Multiple Event in Table 10-82 is the only Event without
    the "Catch" indicated above its diagram object.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In Section 10.4.4, on page 229 (259 pdf), Table 10-82, last row on page (Parallel Multiple): add the text "Catch" above the figure in the 3rd column (as in the other
    rows).

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 130, section 8.3.17 Copy/Paste error

  • Key: BPMN2-11
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14252
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jun 26, 2009

    Second structural specification, should Task be replaced by Sequence Flow?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In Section 8.3.17, on page 98 (128 pdf), second bullet on page: change "Task" to "Sequence Flow"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 028, Section 1, Missing Conversation diagram in list of diagrams defined in BPMN

  • Key: BPMN2-15
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14256
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 01, 2009

    Section 1, third paragraph, first sentence says: "This specification
    represents the amalgamation of best practices within the business modeling
    community to define the notation and semantics of Collaboration diagrams,
    Process diagrams, and Choreography diagrams."

    Should "Conversation diagrams", described in section 13, be added to this
    list?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 14654 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 065, Section 7.5.2, Wrong reference to Table 8.5 (Should be Table 7-4)

  • Key: BPMN2-18
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14289
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 01, 2009

    Should the first two words of section 7.5.2 "Table 8.5" be replaced
    by "Table 7-4"?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In Section 7.5.2, on page 35 (65 pdf), first sentence in first paragraph of section: change "Table 8.5" to "Table 7.4"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 119, section 8.3.14 Copy/Paste error wrong term "Pool" vs "Message Flow"

  • Key: BPMN2-10
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14251
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jun 26, 2009

    The third strtural specification refers to Pool, should it be replaced by
    Message Flow?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In Section 8.3.14, on page 87 (117 pdf), second bullet on page: change "Pool" to "Message Flow"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

text attribute is missing from the Documentation element of the v 0.9.14 schema

  • Key: BPMN2-84
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14432
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    The text attribute is missing from the Documentation element of the v 0.9.14 Semantic.xsd schema. Thus no text description of a BPMN element can be captured by the provided schema

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:
    • Update the description of the text attribute in the specification text after Table 8.6 (spec pg 46) to add
      "In the BPMN schema, the tDocumentation complexType does not contain a text attribute or element. Instead the documentation text is expected to appear in the
      body of the documentation element. For example:
      <documentation>An example of how the documentation text is entered.</documentation> "
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

BPMN 2 FTF issue on XSDs for DD / DI model transfer

  • Key: BPMN2-83
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14423
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Fujitsu ( Tom Rutt)
  • Summary:

    XSD Schemas for transfer of Model instances of DI and DD Metamodels

    Source: Tom Rutt (Fujitsu)

    Location: BPMN 2.0 Beta 1 ­ Annex B

    Summary of Issue:

    In the current BPMN 2 spec, Model instances of the BPMN2 Metamodel have two
    alternate forms for transfer:

    • XMI derived directly from the BPMN 2 Metamodel
    • Instances of the BPMN XSD schemas defined in BPMN 2 spec.

    The current Annex B of the Beta 1 BPMN 2 spec defines metamodels for Diagram
    Interchange (DI) and Diagram Definition (DD). However there are no BPMN XSD
    schemas defined for the DI and DD metamodels. Thus, it seems that XMI derived
    from these DI and DD metamodels currently the only normative way defined to
    transfer Model instances of these metamodels?

    The current plan is that this Annex B will be replaced with a reference to the
    adopted DI spec.

    Resolving issue involves the FTF answering two questions:

    1) Is there a need to define “custom” XSD schemas, not based on XMI, as an
    alternative for transfer of DI and DD model instances.
    2) If the answer to question 1 is yes, will these “custom” XSD schemas be
    defined by the BPMN 2 FTF, or the DI submitters?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    8.3.13 page 115. Change "a Message is a graphical object" to "a Message is a graphical decorator"
    8.3.13 page 115. Remove the part after figure 8-28 where it talks that it can be used on choreography sub process
    8.3.13 page 115. Change "can be displayed as attached (Associated) to a Message Flow" to "can be optionnaly depicted as a graphical decorator on a Message
    Flow"
    Remove Figure 8-30 page 116
    8.3.13 page 116 - Under figure 8-31 change "can be displayed as Associated" to "can be depicted as a decorator"
    Remove the paragraph between Figure 8-32 and Figure 8-33
    Remove Figure 8-33 page 117
    Chapter 13 is to be replaced with the provided Chapter 13 in attached ZIP
    Annex B is to be replaced with the provided Annex B in attached ZIP
    BPMN DI schemas are to be replaced with the schemas provded in attached ZIP
    All files are included in the following zip file:
    Revised+BPMNDI+Ballot+Proposal+Apr+26.zip
    Note on 2010-04-26:
    The FTF acknowldges the proposed namespace does not follow OMG guidelines for namespace conventions. The final namespaces will be:

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Method of specifying a default SequenceFlow is awkward

  • Key: BPMN2-88
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14535
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Chagford CC ( Frank Millman)
  • Summary:

    I have looked at a few sample BPMN2.0 xml instances, such as those in the draft spec, those in the book 'BPMN Method and Style', and others found on the web.

    In all cases, SequenceFlow elements are shown with a sourceRef and a targetRef, but no id. This seems reasonable.

    However, I have now discovered that, to specify a 'default' SequenceFlow for an Inclusive or Exclusive Gateway, you must populate the 'default' attribute of the Gateway with a reference to the SequenceFlow. As I understand it, this reference must refer to the id of the SequenceFlow.

    This seems unnecessarily complicated. To me, the obvious way of specifying a default SequenceFlow is to have a boolean attribute on the SequenceFlow itself, defaulting to false.

    If there is a good reason to specify it as a reference on the Gateway, I would have thought it would be good practice to always assign an id to a SequenceFlow. Otherwise, to make one of them a default, you have to, first, assign an id to it, and then use the id as a reference on the Gateway. This seems awkward.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 7 Oct 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The current solution might be confusing if someone was building a BPMN model directly with XML, but we don't expect that to happen much.
    The current definition is simpler for tools to implement default Sequence Flow and the end user should not be impacted.
    By putting the default attribute in the activity and gateway, we ensure in a simple way that there is only one default sequence flow. If the attribute should be part of the
    sequence flow elements, tools would need to validate that only one of the outgoing sequence flows have the attribute set to true.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Lane.partitionElementRef incorrectly defined

  • Key: BPMN2-87
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14446
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Ms. Suzette Samoojh)
  • Summary:

    Consider swim lanes representing performers.

    • The spec states that the Lane.partitionElementRef would reference a Performer. This won't work since Performers are owned by Activities. Hence would result in a different Lane for every Activity.
      Instead the Lane.partitionElementRef should instead reference a Resource, which multiple Performers may reference.
    • The XSD defines Lane.partitionElementRef as an IDREF. It should instead be a QName, to allow references to a Resource in a different Definitions file.
  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 1 Oct 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) On spec pg 285, replace "e.g., all Lanes in a LaneSet defines the Performer element as the partition element, but all with different values" with "e.g., all Lanes in a
    LaneSet reference a Resource as the partition element, but each Lane references a different Resource instance".
    (b) Update the tLane type in the XSD, replacing
    <xsd:attribute name="partitionElementRef" type="xsd:IDREF"/>
    with
    <xsd:attribute name="partitionElementRef" type="xsd:QName"/>
    to allow for Resources in a different definitions file.
    (c) The XSD snippet in the spec will also need to be similarly updated.

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 24, Table 7.2 Gateway control types row - Redundant forms for XOR Gateway

  • Key: BPMN2-82
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14363
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Fujitsu ( Tom Rutt)
  • Summary:

    This is a style suggestion to make diagrams clearer. The XOR gateway allows two forms
    of diagram: empty diamond, and a diamond with an X in it. While redundancy is OK in
    general, the fact that different vendors make different choices. But an X and a cross look
    very similar.

    While the X should be allowed, the spec should indicate that it is preferred to use the
    blank option, with the eye to eventually eliminating the X.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close this issue as a duplicate.
    The resolution of issue 14354 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 121, Figures 7.3 and 10-1 ­ Redundant ways to model receiving messages

  • Key: BPMN2-81
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14362
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Fujitsu ( Tom Rutt)
  • Summary:

    This is a style suggestion that will make diagrams clearer by removing redundant
    notations. There is a "receive event" to receive any kind of communication. For
    example, and event to receive a message. Or an event to receive a signal. Events are
    circles on the diagram. Additionally, BPMN allows a "receive type" activity, that is a
    rounded rectangle that receives messages. Receiving of a message seems more naturally
    to be an "event" and not an "activity" because an event is something that happens. An
    activity is something you do, and receiving something is really just waiting and not doing
    anything. So picturing receive an activity seems unnatural. The redundancy to two ways
    to draw this causes confusion.

    The spec could encourage the use of a "receive event", and to deprecate the "receive
    activity". Receive activity would still be allowed, but "deprecation" would put the
    standard on a path to eventually remove it, and would send a message to not use it or
    expect it to be there in the future.

    The figure 10-1 should be re-drawn to have receive message events instead of "receive
    activities".

    The doctor/patient example in figure 7-3 should be redrawn to use receive events instead
    of the receive activities.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 14353 will resolve this issue
    The spec could encourage the use of a "receive event", and to deprecate the "receive activity". Receive activity would still be allowed, but "deprecation" would put the
    standard on a path to eventually remove it, and would send a message to not use it or expect it to be there in the future.
    The figure 10-1 should be re-drawn to have receive message events instead of "receive activities".
    The doctor/patient example in figure 7-3 should be redrawn to use receive events instead of the receive activities.
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 204, Table 10-26, MultiInstance Activity: Potential error and clarification regarding **BehaviorEventRef

  • Key: BPMN2-90
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14540
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Page 204, Table 10-26, There seems to be an error in providing an attribute called noneBehaviorEventRef, it should be allBehaviorEventRef....? Futhermore a complexBehaviorEventRef attribute would be missing....?

    But why do we need multiple ***BehaviorEventRef attributes? Couldn't we just have a BehaviorEventRef attribute that is used for either one, all or complexe?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 8 Oct 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    There is no issue. The questions in the issue description probably arose from a misunderstanding of the "complex" MI behavior, which refers to multiple event
    descriptions and not necessarily a single one as assumed by the reporter. When behavior is complex, we have multiple event refs, so we cannot unify with the other two
    options. "none" and "one" could indeed be unified; but it would be clearer not to unify.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

businessRuleTask element in the BPMN 2.0 schema file is missing the implementation attribute

  • Key: BPMN2-89
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14537
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    businessRuleTask Element (Semantic.xsd vs. v0.9.14, sect. 10.2.3, Table 10-11, p175)
    The businessRuleTask element in the BPMN 2.0 schema file Semantic.xsd is missing the implementation attribute of type BusinessRuleTaskImplementation as per the specification documentation.

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Mon, 5 Oct 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    All implementation attributes are changed to string fields. Valid attributes are "##WebService" for the Web service technology, "##unspecified" to leave the
    implementation technology open or any other URI for any technology or coordination protocol. As an example WS-HumanTask is mentioned as such a technology in
    User Tasks.
    Tables and figures need to be updated according to the comments in the attachment.
    The attached XSD and the diff is still valid. It introduces a new complex type tImplementation, accepting anyURI, ##WebService or ##unspecified.

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Semantic.xsd v0.9.14, sect. 8.2.1, p76-77

  • Key: BPMN2-86
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14441
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    In the Semantic.xsd schema, the baseElement has its Id attribute as optional. This has the effect by inheritance that all elements have optional Ids.

    Although Figure 8-5 and Table 8-5 does not speficy this attribute as required, I believe it should be???

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:
    • Update the description of the id attribute (table 8.5, spec pg 46) to add
      "The id is required if this element is referenced or intended to be referenced by something else. If the element is not currently referenced and is never intended to be
      referenced, the id may be omitted."
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Sematic.xsd vs. v0.9.14, sect. 8.3.7, pp106-107

  • Key: BPMN2-85
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14433
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    In the schema, the substitutionGroup relation is place between the expression element and the formalExpression element, not the types. Thus elements of type expression do not benefit from the substitutionGroup. (e.g. activationCondition in the complexGateway is of type tExpression and thus cannot accept a formalExpresion).

  • Reported: BPMN 1.1 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The FTF does not see a problem with the current state of the specification.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 26, Normal Flow row of Table 7.2 - Modeling Activities that are only ended by Events

  • Key: BPMN2-80
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14361
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Fujitsu ( Tom Rutt)
  • Summary:

    There are activities that are only ended by events, thus the activity may have one or more
    events located on the border of the activity, but no "normal" non event exit of the activity.

    The request is that the spec include an explicit statement that the activity might have
    events on the border, but no other "natural" ending of the activity.

    If this is not agreed, the spec needs to explain how to model such activities.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close this issue as a duplicate.
    The resolution of issue 14352 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 26, Normal Flow row of Table 7.2 - Modeling activities that do not complete before process completion

  • Key: BPMN2-79
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14360
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Fujitsu ( Tom Rutt)
  • Summary:

    There are activities that are never ended - that is they have no natural completion, but are
    terminated only when the process itself is terminated. Monitoring activities are like that.
    If an activity is started, and there is never a conclusion of that activity, then this should be
    indicated by having no outbound arrow from the activity. This activity is concluded only
    by the termination of the process as a whole. For example, and process may have a main
    thread, but also split early and start a "monitoring" activity. This monitoring activity is
    designed to stay active until the process is concluded for some other reason. There is no
    way for the assignee of the activity to say "I am done monitoring this process" without
    the process itself being terminated. Since there is no "natural" end of the activity, there
    should be no arrow coming out of the activity node. I am not sure if this is a requirement
    of the spec, but there is a common perception that it is a requirement, that all activities
    have an outbound arrow coming out of it.

    This request is that the spec include a statement that it is explicitly OK to not have an
    arrow out of an activity that has no natural end to its execution.

    If this is not agreed, the spec needs to explain how to model such activities

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close this issue as a duplicate.
    The resolution of issue 14351 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 22, Section 7.2.1 ­ Associating Data Objects with process as a whole

  • Key: BPMN2-78
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14359
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Fujitsu ( Tom Rutt)
  • Summary:

    Many workflow systems are designed around the concept that there is a process context
    that holds variables shared by all activities within that context. Since the swimming pool
    represents the process instance as a whole, there should be a way to associated process
    variables with the pool itself, which would be accessible by all activities within the pool.

    The spec should clarify how a model can associate data objects with the process as a
    whole.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close this issue as a duplicate.
    The resolution of issue 14350 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 331, Figure 11-4, Message Flows part of a Conversation diagram

  • Key: BPMN2-67
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14342
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    Figure 11-4 presents a list of Message Flows associated to the "Delivery
    Negotiations Conversation".

    Are the message flows listed the correct depiction for the explosion of
    the Conversation?

    If so shouldn't the conversation object have a [+]?
    Are Message Flows graphical elements to be used in a Conversation diagram
    or was it presented exclusively to show the relation between two views?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Note that all of these changes will be moved to Chapter 9 Collaboration through The resolution of issue 14654.
    (a) Paragraph above Figure 11.4: replace first sentence with the following: "Figure 11.4 shows a subset of the larger Conversation diagram of Figure 11.3, above.
    Figures 11.5 and 11.6 show the drill down into the "Delivery Negotiations" Sub-Conversation."
    (b) Replace Figure 11.4 with a figure that only shows the two Pools, two Conversation Links, and a Sub-Conversation element (the plus sign that was missing should
    be added) - the bottom half of the figure would be removed. See attached figure
    (10547_Figure+11-4+Updated.jpg)
    .
    (c) Replace the caption for Figure 11.4 with the following: "An example of a Sub-Conversation"
    (d) Add a figure after Figure 11.4 that shows the expanded version of the Sub-Conversation so that it contains a set of reference Message Flow and Conversation
    element ("Variations"). See attached figure
    (10690_Figure+11-5+%5BNew+Figure%5D.jpg)
    (e) The caption for the new figure should be the following: "An example of a Sub-Conversation expanded to a Conversation and Message Flow"
    (f) Add a new paragraph that precedes the new figure: "Figure 11.5 shows a how the Sub-Conversation of Figure 11.4 is expanded into a set of Message Flow and a
    lower-level Conversation."
    (g) Add another new figure (after item (d)) that shows the Sub-Conversation expanded fully to all of its referenced Message Flow. See attached figure
    (10549_Figure+11-6+%5BNew+Figure%5D.jpg)
    (h) The caption for the new figure should be the following: "An example of a Sub-Conversation that is fully expanded"
    Add a new paragraph that precedes the new figure: "Figure 11.6 shows a how the Conversation of Figure 11.5 is also expanded into a set of Message Flow,
    combined with the Message Flow. Note that the newly exposed Message Flow of the lower-level Conversation will be correlated by the CorrelationKey of both the
    lower-level Conversation ("Variation ID") and the higher-level Sub-Conversation ("Order ID")."

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 29, Section 7.2.2 ­ Fork and Join Differentiation

  • Key: BPMN2-77
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14358
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Fujitsu ( Tom Rutt)
  • Summary:

    BPMN says that you use a parallel gateway (diamond with a plus in it) to start a sequence
    of parallel paths, and another AND gateway to end it. The behaviors of these two
    gateways are different, but they look the same. Suggestion is that the first AND gateway,
    that starts the parallel split have a thin line, while the gateway at the end which actually
    waits for multiple inputs will have a thick line. This corresponds to the thin and thick
    lines around start and end nodes.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close this issue as a duplicate.
    The resolution of issue 14349 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 121, Figure 10-1 - Redundant ways to model receiving messages

  • Key: BPMN2-76
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14353
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Fujitsu ( Tom Rutt)
  • Summary:

    This is a style suggestion that will make diagrams clearer by removing redundant notations. There is a "receive event" to receive any kind of communication. For example, and event to receive a message. Or an event to receive a signal. Events are circles on the diagram. Additionally, BPMN allows a "receive type" activity, that is a rounded rectangle that receives messages. Receiving of a message seems more naturally to be an "event" and not an "activity" because an event is something that happens. An activity is something you do, and receiving something is really just waiting and not doing anything. So picturing receive an activity seems unnatural. The redundancy to two ways to draw this causes confusion.

    The spec could encourage the use of a "receive event", and to deprecate the "receive activity". Receive activity would still be allowed, but "deprecation" would put the standard on a path to eventually remove it, and would send a message to not use it or expect it to be there in the future.

    The figure 10-1 should be re-drawn to have receive message events instead of "receive activities".

    The doctor/patient example in figure 7-3 should be redrawn to use receive events instead of the receive activities.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue cannot be fixed in this FTF.
    Disposition: Closed, Out Of Scope

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 22, Section 7.2.1 - Associating Data Objects with process as a whole

  • Key: BPMN2-73
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14350
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Fujitsu ( Tom Rutt)
  • Summary:

    Many workflow systems are designed around the concept that there is a process context that holds variables shared by all activities within that context. Since the swimming pool represents the process instance as a whole, there should be a way to associated process variables with the pool itself, which would be accessible by all activities within the pool.

    The spec should clarify how a model can associate data objects with the process as a whole.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Processes define DataObjects, so the scope of DataObjects is the process they are defined. We are opening another issue to create a clarification of the behaviour of
    simultaneous updates on DataObjects.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 190, sub-section "Transaction"

  • Key: BPMN2-72
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14347
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    Can a Transaction Sub-Process be presented collapsed?
    i.e with a + marker at the bottom center.

    NB It is clear in the case of Event Subprocess

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    A new figure will be added in Section 10.2.5 after Figure 10.32.
    The figure will be the one shown posted here:
    (10563_Additional+Transaction+Figure.jpg)

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 26, Normal Flow row of Table 7.2

  • Key: BPMN2-74
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14351
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Fujitsu ( Tom Rutt)
  • Summary:

    Page 26, Normal Flow row of Table 7.2 - Modeling activities that do not complete before process completion.

    There are activities that are never ended - that is they have no natural completion, but are terminated only when the process itself is terminated. Monitoring activities are like that. If an activity is started, and there is never a conclusion of that activity, then this should be indicated by having no outbound arrow from the activity. This activity is concluded only by the termination of the process as a whole. For example, and process may have a main thread, but also split early and start a "monitoring" activity. This monitoring activity is designed to stay active until the process is concluded for some other reason. There is no way for the assignee of the activity to say "I am done monitoring this process" without the process itself being terminated. Since there is no "natural" end of the activity, there should be no arrow coming out of the activity node. I am not sure if this is a requirement of the spec, but there is a common perception that it is a requirement, that all activities have an outbound arrow coming out of it.

    This request is that the spec include a statement that it is explicitly OK to not have an arrow out of an activity that has no natural end to its execution.

    If this is not agreed, the spec needs to explain how to model such activities.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The FTF Team agreed that some examples of modeling techniques that can be used to model these situations would be appropriate.
    For now, the issue can be Closed; No Change
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 361, Figure 12-23, Sub-process marker missing

  • Key: BPMN2-69
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14344
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    The Figure 12-23 shows a Choreography Sub-Process. However the + marker is
    missing.

    In addition the caption of the figure should be "Choreography Sub-Process
    with multi-instance Participants".

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Section 12.4.2 Choreography Sub-Process, page 325 (355 pdf), Figure 12.23: Replace current figure with the figure posted here:
    (Replacement+for+Figure+12.23.jpg)
    .
    (b) Section 12.4.2 Choreography Sub-Process, page 325 (355 pdf), Figure 12.23: append current figure title with the following text: " with a multi-instance Participant"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 337, section 11.5 Typo should be "Call Conversation"

  • Key: BPMN2-68
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14343
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    Second structural specification should be "Call Conversation" instead of
    "Call Activity"

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 11.5, page 301 (page 331 pdf), second bullet on page: change "Call Activity" to "Call Conversation."

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 26, Normal Flow row of Table 7.2

  • Key: BPMN2-75
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14352
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Fujitsu ( Tom Rutt)
  • Summary:

    Modeling Activities that are only ended by Events

    There are activities that are only ended by events, thus the activity may have one or more events located on the border of the activity, but no "normal" non event exit of the activity.

    The request is that the spec include an explicit statement that the activity might have events on the border, but no other "natural" ending of the activity.

    If this is not agreed, the spec needs to explain how to model such activities.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    at Page 26, Normal Flow row of Table 7.2 replace :
    "Normal flow refers to the series of Sequence Flow that originates from a Start Event and continues through activities via alternative
    and parallel paths until it ends at an End Event. This does not include the paths that start from an Intermediate Event attached to the boundary of an Activity."
    with the following text:
    "Normal flow refers to paths of Sequence Flow that do not start from an Intermediate Event attached to the boundary of an Activity."
    beyond that, this issue is resolved by resolution of issue 14783 (Jira issue 14783)

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 032, section 2.4.1, Referencing wrong chapter

  • Key: BPMN2-70
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14345
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    Second bullet of section 2.4.1 is: "Choreography diagrams, which includes
    the elements defined in the Choreography, and Choreography packages (see
    Chapter 10)."

    The reference should be to Chapter 12.

    Third bullet of section 2.4.1 See Chapter 143 should read Chapter 9

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Section 2.4.1 BPMN Choreography Types, page 5 (35 pdf), first bullet on page: Change "Chapter 70" to "Chapter 8"
    (b) Section 2.4.1 BPMN Choreography Types, page 5 (35 pdf), second bullet on page: Change "Chapter 10" to "Chapter 12"
    (c) Section 2.4.1 BPMN Choreography Types, page 5 (35 pdf), third bullet on page: Change "Chapter 143" to "Chapter 9"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 076, Figure 8-5, Figure Caption incorrect

  • Key: BPMN2-71
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14346
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    Figure 8-5 is named "Classes in the Infrastructure package".

    This figure is presented in the section "8.2 Foundation".

    Is the caption incorrect?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 8.2 Foundation, page 45 (75 pdf), Figure 8.5: Replace current figure title with the following text: "Classes in the Foundation Package"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 244, section 10.4.2 Last two structural specifications for Start Event

  • Key: BPMN2-57
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14331
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    In the last two structural specifications of page 244:
    Should Event Sub-process be added to the exceptions that any other
    elements must not have incoming Sequence Flow when a Start Event is used?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The correction to the first structural specification was defined by the resolution of 14334. The remaining items are for the correction to the second structural
    specification.
    (a) Section 10.4.2 Start Event, page 215 (245 pdf), after first bullet on page: Add a second level bullet with the following text: "An exception to this is a Intermediate
    Event, which MAY be without an incoming Sequence Flow (when attached to an Activity boundary)."
    (b) Section 10.4.2 Start Event, page 215 (245 pdf), after first bullet on page: Add a second level bullet with the following text: "An exception to this is a catching Link
    Intermediate Event, which is not allowed to have incoming Sequence Flow. See page 243 for more information on Link Intermediate Events."
    (c) Section 10.4.2 Start Event, page 214 (244 pdf), after last bullet on page: Add a second level bullet with the following text: "An exception to this is an Event Sub-
    Process, which is not allowed to have incoming Sequence Flow and will only be instantiated when its Start Event is triggered. See page 155 for more information on
    Event Sub-Processes."

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 187, Do sub-process markers also apply for Call Activity and Event Subprocess

  • Key: BPMN2-56
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14330
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    Sub-process markers are presented at pages 186-187. Does these markers
    (Compensation, Ad Hoc, Loop and MI) also apply to Call Activity and Event
    Sub-process? Is it none, some or all of them?

    According to the Class diagrams a Call Activity could not be Adhoc, but
    since a Call Activity extends from Activity it could be Loop or
    Compensation or Multi-instance?

    According to the same logic, an Event Subprocess could also have the same
    behavior plus Ad hoc.

    We feel these explicit lists should be presented in the spec instead of
    inferred from the class diagrams.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of this issue is part of 14423
    The new Chapter 13 contains a section that describes in detail which combinations are allowed:
    3.2.1 Markers for Activities
    Various BPMN Activities can be decorated with markers at the bottom center of the shape.
    Loop Characteristic markers may need to be rendered when the referenced BPMN model element [bpmnElement] of a BPMNShape is a Task, ServiceTask,
    SendTask, ReceiveTask, UserTask, ManualTask, BusinessRuleTask, ScriptTask, SubProcess, AdHocSubProcess, Transaction or CallActivity. Note that Loop
    Characteristic Markers (Loop, Multi-Instance - Parallel and Multi-Instance - Sequential) are mutually exclusive markers. That is, only one of them can be present on a
    single shape. See Table 8 - Depiction Resolution for Loop Characteristic Markers.
    A Compensation marker may need to be rendered when the referenced BPMN model element [bpmnElement] of a BPMNShape is a Task, ServiceTask, SendTask,
    ReceiveTask, UserTask, ManualTask, BusinessRuleTask, ScriptTask, SubProcess, AdHocSubProcess, Transaction or CallActivity. See Table 9 - Depiction
    Resolution for Compensation Marker
    In the case of expandable kind of shapes, the markers (Compensation or Loop Characteristic) are placed to the left of the + on the shape.
    The Compensation marker may be combined with a Loop Characteristic Marker. All the markers that are present must be grouped and the whole group centered to
    the bottom of the shape. See Figure 3 2 - Combined Compensation and Loop Characteristic Marker Example.
    Note that the in the case where the referenced BPMN model element [bpmnElement] of a BPMNShape is an AdHocSubProcess, the shape has its tilde marker to the
    right of the + (See section 3.2.6).
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 253, section 10.4.3 End Event Sequence Flow Connections

  • Key: BPMN2-61
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14336
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    The third structural specifications for an End Event in page 253 reads:"If
    the End Event is not used, then all Flow Objects that do not have any
    outgoing Sequence Flow (i.e. are not a source of a Sequence Flow) mark the
    end of a path in the Process."

    Is a "Throwing Link Intermediate Event" an exception to this statement?
    And, should it be indicated?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Section 10.4.3 End Event, page 222 (252 pdf), after 5th bullet on page (3rd 2nd level bullet): Add a third level bullet with the following text: "An exception to this
    are throwing Link Intermediate Events, which are not allowed to have outgoing Sequence Flow. See page 243 for more information on Link Intermediate Events."
    (b) Section 10.4.3 End Event, page 222 (252 pdf), after 5th bullet on page (3rd 2nd level bullet): Add a third level bullet with the following text: "An exception to this
    are Event Sub-Processes which are not allowed to have outgoing Sequence Flow. See page 155 for more information on Event Sub-Processes."

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 192, Table 10-21 Transaction types need explanation

  • Key: BPMN2-60
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14335
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    At p. 192 of the specification, the TransactionMethod can be of type
    Compensate, Store,Image.

    A small text describing these variants would be useful, since only stating
    terms can lead to various interpretation.

    The same issue apply for the BPMN 1.2 specification at (p.281) B.11.19.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Table 10.21:
    Current:
    method: TransactionMethod = compensate

    { compensate | store | image }

    TransactionMethod is an attribute that defines the technique that will be used to undo a Transaction that has been cancelled. The default is compensate, but the attribute
    MAY be set to store or IMAGE.
    New:
    method: string
    TransactionMethod is an attribute that defines the transaction method used to commit or cancel a transaction. For executable processes, it SHOULD be set to a
    technology specific URI, e.g., http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/10/wsat for WS-AtomicTransaction, or http://docs.oasis-open.org/wstx/
    wsba/2006/06/AtomicOutcome for WS-BusinessActivity. For compatibility with BPMN 1.1, it can also be set to "##compensate", "##store", or "##image".

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 265, Sequence Flow Connections for Intermediate Events

  • Key: BPMN2-65
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14340
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    A structual specification says:"The Intermediate Events with the following
    Triggers MAY be used in normal flow: None, Message, Timer, Compensation,
    Conditional, Link, and Signal. Thus, the following MUST NOT: Canvel,
    Error, Multiple and Parallel Multiple."

    However, Table 10-82 (page 259) says for both (Multiple and Parallel
    Multiple Events) "If used within normal flow, the event can catch ...".

    Are Multiple and Paralle Multiple Events allowed on the normal flow?

    Also Escalation is missing from the list of MAY be used in normal flow

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Move Multiple and Parallel Multiple to the list of Event types that may be used in normal flow.
    Add Escalation to the list of Event types that may be used in normal flow.
    (a) Section 10.4.4, Sub-Section Sequence Flow Connections: replace 7th bullet on page with the following:
    "The Intermediate Events with the following Triggers (EventDefinition) MAY be used in normal flow: None,
    Message, Timer, Escalation, Compensation, Conditional, Link, Signal, Multiple, and Parallel Multiple. Thus, the following MUST NOT:
    Cancel and Error."

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 265, Activity Boundary Connections

  • Key: BPMN2-64
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14339
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    In the structural specifications under "Activity Boundary Connections" the
    list of Intermediate Events that can be attached is provided (second
    structural spec.).
    In the structural specifications under "Sequence Flow Connections" the
    same list is provided (first sttructural spec.).
    Is it required to duplicate the list?

    The content of the list is different, Escalation is not included in the
    second list.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Remove redundant text from the Sequence Flow considerations of an Intermediate Event.
    (a) Section 10.4.4, Sub-Section "Sequence Flow Connections," page 237 (267 pdf): Remove first bullet in section
    (b) Section 10.4.4, Sub-Section "Sequence Flow Connections," page 237 (267 pdf): Change indent level to the left for the next bullet (after removing the first bullet

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 255, Message Flow connection for End Event

  • Key: BPMN2-62
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14337
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    The last two structural speficication at bottom of page 255 have errors.
    The first one has an extra sentence starting with If the Intermediate
    Event...

    The second structural specification should not be there.

    (BTW bullet should be diamonds here and many other places)

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The End Event Message Flow Connection definitions should have a parallel construction as the Start Event Message Flow Connections. Thus, the following changes
    will be made to the specification:
    (a) Section 10.4.3 End Event, Sub-Section "Message Flow Connections," page 225 (255 pdf), first bullet in section: Delete second sentence of bullet item.
    (b) Section 10.4.3 End Event, Sub-Section "Message Flow Connections," page 225 (255 pdf), second bullet in section: Delete entire bullet item and replace with the
    following text, "An End Event MAY be the source for Message Flow; it can have 0 (zero) or more outgoing Message Flow. Each Message Flow leaving the End Event
    will have a Message sent when the Event is triggered."
    (c) Section 10.4.3 End Event, Sub-Section "Message Flow Connections," page 225 (255 pdf), after the second bullet in section: Add a new sub-level bullet with the
    following text, "The Result attribute of the End Event MUST be set to Message or Multiple if there are any outgoing Message Flow."
    (d) Section 10.4.3 End Event, Sub-Section "Message Flow Connections," page 225 (255 pdf), after the second bullet in section: Add a new sub-level bullet with the
    following text, "The Result attribute of the End Event MUST be set to Multiple if there is more than one (1) outgoing Message Flow."

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 251, Exceptions for Sequence Flow connections for Start Event

  • Key: BPMN2-59
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14334
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    In the structural specification on Sequence Flow Connections (page 251)it
    is written:"When a Start Event is not used, then all Flow Objects that do
    not have an incoming Sequence Flow SHALL be the start of a separate
    parallel path.

    Event Sub-process and Catching Intermediate Event Link are also exceptions
    to that?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Section 10.4.2 Start Event, page 214 (244 pdf), after last bullet on page: Add a second level bullet with the following text: "An exception to this are catching Link
    Intermediate Events, which are not allowed to have incoming Sequence Flow. See page 243 for more information on Link Intermediate Events."
    (b) Section 10.4.2 Start Event, page 214 (244 pdf), after last bullet on page: Add a second level bullet with the following text: "An exception to this are Event Sub-
    Processes, which are not allowed to have incoming Sequence Flow. See page 155 for more information on Link Intermediate Events."

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 159, Section 10.1.2 number of types of diagrams

  • Key: BPMN2-55
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14329
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    Section 10.1.2, first sentence reads: "Some BPMN elements are common to
    both Process and Choreography, as well as Collaboration; they are used in
    both types of diagrams."

    Is the last part of the sentence, which reads: "they are used in both
    types of diagrams." applies to only two of them, which one are they?

    If not, the term "both" should be replaced by "all" or eliminated, or this
    statement reworked.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In Section 10.1.2 Use of BPMN Common Elements - first paragraph
    Replace the phrase: "they are used in both types of diagrams."
    With: "they are used in these diagrams."

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 247 section Start Event for Event Sub-Processes

  • Key: BPMN2-58
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14332
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    The first sentence says:" A Start Event can also initiate an inline Event
    Sub-Process (see page 188). In that case, the same Event types as for
    boundary Events are allowed (see Table 10-79), namnely: Message, timer,
    Escalation, Error, Cancel, Compensation, Conditional, Signal, Multiple,
    and Parallel."

    Cancel should be removed from the list.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 10.4.2, Sub-Section "Start Events for Event Sub-Processes," page 217 (247 pdf), first paragraph: remove "Cancel" from the list of Event types

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 328, Section 11, Communication Link or Conversation Link

  • Key: BPMN2-66
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14341
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    At beginnig of section 11 it says: "The view includes two(2) additional
    graphical elements that do not exist in other BPMN views: A Communication,
    A CommunicationLink."

    The title of section 11.7 at page 338 is "Communicaion Link", however the
    descriptive text anf Figure refer to "Conversation Link".

    The graphical element a "Communication Link" should be "Conversation
    Link"?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of issue 14654 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 257, Intermediate Event Types in Normal flow

  • Key: BPMN2-63
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14338
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    The sentence above Table 10-82 says: "Nine(9) of the eleven (11)
    Intermediate Event ...."
    Table 10-82 shows 10 Events and not 9 and page 256 indicates and lists
    twelve (12) Intermediate Events.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 10.4.4, page 226 (256 pdf), last sentence on page: change "Nine (9) of the eleven (11)" to "Ten (10) of the twelve (12)"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 223, Figure 10-57 Unclear usage of IsCollection attribute for DataOutput

  • Key: BPMN2-47
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14320
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    In Figure 10-57, we can see that the DataOutput has a isCollection
    attribute as well as in Table 10-54 on page 224. The DataOutput also has
    itemSubjectRef attribute that is inherited from ItemAwareElement. This
    attribute is of type ItemDefinition and specifies the isCollection
    attribute.

    When we read the description on table 10-54 on page 224 for the
    isCollection attribute the following: "Defines if the DataOutput
    represents a collection of elements. This is a projection of the same
    attribute of the referenced ItemDefinition."

    I wonder why we need to have it defined both in DataOutput and
    ItemDefinition if the attribute in DataOutput is the "same".

    Is this denormalisation for the purpose of drawing a collection that has
    not be concretized by a ItemDefinition?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) in Section 10.3.1 Data Modeling, Sub-Section "Data Object," page 184 (214 pdf), Table 10.47, first row, second column: Remove second sentence in table cell,
    which was: This is a projection of the same attribute of the referenced ItemDefinition."
    (b) in Section 10.3.1 Data Modeling, Sub-Section "Data Object," page 184 (214 pdf), Table 10.47, first row, second column: Add the following sentence after the
    first sentence in table cell: "It is needed when no itemDefinition is referenced. If an itemDefinition is referenced, then this attribute MUST have the same value as the
    isCollection attribute of the referenced itemDefinition. The default value for this attribute is "false"."
    (c) in Section 10.3.1 Data Modeling, Sub-Section "Data Input," page 193 (223 pdf), Table 10.53, fifth row, second column: Remove second sentence in table cell,
    which was: This is a projection of the same attribute of the referenced ItemDefinition."
    (d) in Section 10.3.1 Data Modeling, Sub-Section "Data Object," page 293 (223 pdf), Table 10.53, fifth row, second column: Add the following sentence after the
    first sentence in table cell: "It is needed when no itemDefinition is referenced. If an itemDefinition is referenced, then this attribute MUST have the same value as the
    isCollection attribute of the referenced itemDefinition. The default value for this attribute is "false"."
    (e) in Section 10.3.1 Data Modeling, Sub-Section "Data Output," page 195 (225 pdf), Table 10.54, fifth row, second column: Remove second sentence in table cell,
    which was: This is a projection of the same attribute of the referenced ItemDefinition."
    (f) in Section 10.3.1 Data Modeling, Sub-Section "Data Output," page 295 (225 pdf), Table 10.54, fifth row, second column: Add the following sentence after the first
    sentence in table cell: "It is needed when no itemDefinition is referenced. If an itemDefinition is referenced, then this attribute MUST have the same value as the
    isCollection attribute of the referenced itemDefinition. The default value for this attribute is "false"."

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 149, Figure 9-6 Multi-instance marker no depiction for white box pools

  • Key: BPMN2-46
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14319
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    The example on p. 149 shows the multi-instance marker for a black box pool.
    But there is no depiction of it for white box pools.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The resolution of this issue in include in 14423
    The Text below Figure 8.42 currently says:
    "When the minimum attribute of the ParticipantMultiplicty element has been set by the modeler, then the multiinstance
    marker will be displayed in bottom center of the Pool (Participant - see Figure 8-41) or the Participant Band
    of a Choreography Activity (see page 356)."
    Propsal:
    We assume that the rendering for the multi instance marker of a pool is rendered regardless if the pool is white box or black box.
    Chapter 13 in the current proposal does not explitily differentiate between black box and white box pools, as the only difference are the (not) contained BPMNShapes.
    And Table 27 in current Chapter 13 defines the depiction of the Multi Instance Marker only dependent on the ParticipantMultiplicity.
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 149, Figure 9-6 Vertical pool markers placement depiction

  • Key: BPMN2-45
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14318
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    It would be good to have a depiction of the Multi-instance marker in the
    Vertical Pool layout

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Figure 9.6 will be updated to include a vertically oriented pool that has a multi-instance marker. The updated figure is shown here:
    (10550_Update+to+Figure+9.6.jpg)
    (b) The figure caption to 9.6 will be changed to: "Pools with a Multi-Instance Participant Markers"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 028, Section 1, Wrong term for BPMN : Business Process Modeling Notation

  • Key: BPMN2-50
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14323
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    BPMN 2.0, term is Business Process Model and Notation

    Same issue at page 40, section 7, 3rd paragraph.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) on Cover Page, Title of Specification: change "Business Process Modeling Notation" to "Business Process Model and Notation"
    (b) In Section 1, on page 1 (31 pdf), first sentence in first paragraph of section: change "Business Process Modeling Notation" to "Business Process Model and
    Notation"
    (c) In Section 1, on page 1 (31 pdf), second sentence in third paragraph of section: change "business process modeling notation" to "business process model and
    notation"
    (d) In Section 7, on page 13 (43 pdf), first sentence in third paragraph of section: change "Business Process Modeling Notation" to "Business Process Model and
    Notation"
    (e) In Footers (most pages): change "Business Process Modeling Notation" to "Business Process Model and Notation"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 115-120 Distinguishing Initiating and Non-Inititating Messages

  • Key: BPMN2-49
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14322
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    Page 115 Structural Specifcation says that Any Message that is after the
    first on the list of Messages for a Choreography Task or Choreography
    Subproces.....

    What about Collaboration Diagrams that do not include Choreography
    tasks...how do we determine Initiating and Non-Initiating

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Collaboration diagrams do not contain the information to define initiating messages. This is done in Choreography through the Choreography Activities (which is a
    mechanism to organize the message flow).
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 153, Figure10-1, Link Events not paired may lead to confusion

  • Key: BPMN2-54
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14328
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    In figure 10-1 the throwing Link Intermediate Event and the catching Link
    Intermediate Event may lead to confusion to the reader, i.e. someone could
    think that they should be paired where probably this is a diagram fragment
    and they should not be paired.

    The diagram presented is not a complete process but a fragment of a
    process due to the presence of Intermediate Link Events not paired and
    the "Discussion Cycle" Sub-process without not directing to a proper "End".

    Should the diagram be replaced or an identification provided that it shows
    an incomplete fragment of a larger process?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    To avoid the potential confusion mentioned in the issue, replace Figure 10.1, page 121 (151 pdf) with the figure seen here:
    (10589_Replacement+for+Figure+10.1.jpg)

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 056, Table 7-2, Compensation Association: Usage of term Compensate Event

  • Key: BPMN2-53
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14326
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    At row "Compensation Association" the text indicates " .... or a throw
    Compensate Event". Throughout the document the term "Compensation Event"
    is used, should this text also use the term "Compensation Event" instead?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Table 7.2, page 28 (58 pdf), first row on page, second column: replace "Compensate Event" with "Compensation Event"
    (b) Section 13.2.4, Sub-Section "CompensationFlowConnector," page 371 (401 pdf), first sentence on page: "Compensate Event" with "Compensation Event"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 063, Section 7.4 Undefined term "Flow"

  • Key: BPMN2-43
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14316
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    The first structural specification bullet of section 7.4 refers to "Flow"
    Where is "Flow" defined?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Section 7.4, page 34 (64 pdf), bullet on page: change "Flow objects and Flow MAY" to "BPMN elements (e.g., Flow Objects) MAY"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 050, 061 and 417 Group text implies that only activites can be within a Group

  • Key: BPMN2-42
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14315
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    These texts of those pages specifies that a Group is a grouping of
    Actiovities that are within the same category. In fact a Group is tied to
    the Category supporting element (which is an attribute of all BPMN
    elements) (page 089). Thus the texts are somewhat misleading.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Table 7.1, page 22 (52 pdf), fifth row on page, second column, first sentence: change "grouping of Activities" to "grouping of graphical elements"
    (b) Table 7.1, page 22 (52 pdf), fifth row on page, second column, second sentence: remove "of the Activities"
    (c) Table 7.2, page 32 (62 pdf), third row on page, second column, first sentence: change "grouping of Activities" to "grouping of graphical elements"
    (d) Table 7.2, page 32 (62 pdf), third row on page, second column, second sentence: remove "of the Activities"
    (e) Section 13.2.5, Sub-Section "GroupShape," page 380 (410 pdf), first sentence: change "grouping of Activities" to "grouping of graphical elements"
    (f) Section 13.2.5, Sub-Section "GroupShape," page 380 (410 pdf), second sentence: remove "of the Activities"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 054, Table 7-2, Gateway Control Types: Incomplete statement

  • Key: BPMN2-52
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14325
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    The sentence " Both Exclusive (see page 298) and Event-Based (see page
    307). " is incomplete and leads to confusion while reading the text.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Table 7.2, row for "Gateway Control types," second column: replace "Both Exclusive (see page 298) and Event-Based (see page 307)" with "Both Exclusive (see page
    298) and Event-Based (see page 307) perform exclusive decisions and merging."

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 049, Table 7-1 Depiction of Lanes with single lines to separate Lane name to Lane content

  • Key: BPMN2-51
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14324
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    The Lane depiction included in the table shows Lanes with single lines to
    seperate Lane name to Lane content.

    According to structural specification of page 316, Section 10.7, these
    lines should not be there. Should the figure presented excludes these
    lines as shown in Figure 10-119 at page 317?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close this issue as a duplicate.
    The resolution of issue 14250 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 060, Table 7-2, Merging: No depiction of implicit merge

  • Key: BPMN2-41
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14314
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    Under the title Merging : The text talks of the possibility of an
    alternative
    representation of a merge (i.e two sequence flows entering an activity)
    but does not
    depict it or specifies it as an implicit merge

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Table 7.2, row for "Merging," third column: add a figure showing implicit merging below the current figure (see
    (Figure+added+to+Table+7-2.jpg)
    )
    (b) Table 7.2, row for "Merging," second column: add appropriate references to the two figures in column 3

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 058, Table 7-2, Fork: Questionable affirmation

  • Key: BPMN2-40
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14313
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    Under the title Fork: it is stated that "uncontrolled" flow is the
    preferred method
    for most situations is a questionable affirmation.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The FTF could not determine a proper resolution and will defer the resolution to a later RTF
    Disposition: Deferred

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 187, Figure 10-27 Inconsistent use of class hierarchy vs. attributes to define types of subprocess

  • Key: BPMN2-44
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14317
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    Both Adhoc and Transaction arepresented as specialized class of
    SubProcess, why not the same for Event SubProcess

    On page 187, Figure 10-27, the attribute triggeredByEvent
    defines if the sub-process is an event sub-process. But on page on p. 188
    it is stated that an event is a specialized sub-process. If I take a look
    at the model is says that an ad hoc and transaction can also be
    event-sub-proceses.

    Leads to confusion regarding possible Event based transactions or Event
    Based Adhoc

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Event Sub-Processes should be allowed to be either Ad Hoc or Transactions. Thus, no change is recommended and this issue should be closed.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 253 and 257, Table 10-81 and 10-82 EventDefintion used for Events

  • Key: BPMN2-48
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14321
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    On p.246 of the specification, The EventDefinition used for each start
    event type are explicitly listed.

    But in table 10-81 and 10-82 it is provided only for the None and
    Multiple. For consistency it should probably listed in all of them here
    too.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    The specification text was corrected before the initial Beta 1 version was released. So we can close this issue as it needs no changes.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 357, Figure 12-17 and 12-18 Participant names not identical

  • Key: BPMN2-28
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14300
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 07, 2009

    Figure 12-18 is stated to be a different representation of Figure 12-17.

    However, the Participant names are different, Participant 1 and 2 in
    Figure 12-17 and Participant A and B in Figure 12-18.

    They should be the same.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    All figures showing generic Participant names shall use the convention of letters in the name (e.g., Participant A, Participant B)
    (a) Figure 12.17 will be updated with this convention. The update figure can be seen here:
    (10551_Update+to+Figure+12.17.jpg)
    b) Figures 12.8, 12.12, 12.15, 12.21, 12.22 will also be updated .The updates to these figures are not shown here.

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 353, Figure 12-11, inapropriate caption

  • Key: BPMN2-27
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14299
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 07, 2009

    The caption of Figure 12-11 is "Choreography Task". It should be "A
    Collaboration view of a two-way Choreography Task element".

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Close this issue as a duplicate.
    The resolution of issue 14298 will resolve this issue
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 352, Figure 12-9, inapropriate caption

  • Key: BPMN2-26
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14298
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 07, 2009

    Figure 12-9 caption is "Choreography Task". It should be "A Collaboration
    view of Choreography Task elements".

    The sentence below this figure makes reference to Figure 12-7. The
    reference should be to Figure 12-9.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) In Section 12.4.1, on page 317 (347 pdf), caption for Figure 12-9: change "A Choreography Task" to "A Collaboration view of a Choreography Task"
    (b) In Section 12.4.1, on page 317 (347 pdf), first sentence in first paragraph on page (change "see Figure 12-7" to "see Figure 12-9")
    (c) In Section 12.4.1, on page 318 (348 pdf), caption for Figure 12-11: change "A Choreography Task" to "A Collaboration view of a two-way Choreography Task"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 408, Section 13.2.5 Event Sub-process not included

  • Key: BPMN2-34
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14307
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 09, 2009

    The Event Sub-process is not presented in the list of BPMN shapes, even if
    it has a distinctive aspect.

    Comment 1 by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 10, 2009

    All shapes are presented in this section, but the Event Sub-process is not presented
    in the list of BPMN shapes, even if it has a distinctive "shape".

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Thu, 3 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    A full new chapter covering this issue is included in the final report
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 242-243 Tables 10-75 and 10-76

  • Key: BPMN2-33
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14306
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    eported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 08, 2009

    Cardinality of eventDefinitions is not same that in schema of page 290 and
    294

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Replace the contents of Table 10.97, page 258 (288 PDF) with the following:
    <xsd:element name="catchEvent" type="tCatchEvent"/>
    <xsd:complexType name="tCatchEvent" abstract="true">
    <xsd:complexContent>
    <xsd:extension base="tEvent">
    <xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:element ref="dataOutput" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    <xsd:element ref="dataOutputAssociation" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    <xsd:element ref="outputSet" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
    <xsd:element ref="eventDefinition" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    <xsd:element name="eventDefinitionRef" type="xsd:QName" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:attribute name="parallelMultiple" type="xsd:boolean" default="false"/>
    </xsd:extension>
    </xsd:complexContent>
    </xsd:complexType>
    (b) Replace the contents of Table 10.114, page 262 (292 PDF) with the following:
    <xsd:element name="throwEvent" type="tThrowEvent"/>
    <xsd:complexType name="tThrowEvent" abstract="true">
    <xsd:complexContent>
    <xsd:extension base="tEvent">
    <xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:element ref="dataInput" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    <xsd:element ref="dataInputAssociation" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    <xsd:element ref="inputSet" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
    <xsd:element ref="eventDefinition" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    <xsd:element name="eventDefinitionRef" type="xsd:QName" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
    </xsd:extension>
    </xsd:complexContent>
    </xsd:complexType>

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 243, Table 10-76 eventDefinitionRefs and eventDefinitions descriptions

  • Key: BPMN2-32
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14305
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 08, 2009

    The two texts need to be reviewed

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue is resolved as part of issue 14304
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 242, Table 10-75 eventDefintionsRefs and eventDefinitions descriptions are identical

  • Key: BPMN2-31
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14304
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 08, 2009

    Seems to be a copy/paste error

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    a) in Table 10.75 CatchEvent attributes and model associations
    1 - For the eventDefinitionRefs Attribute, replace the following text:

    • "EventDefinitionRefs (EventDefinition) is an attribute that defines the type of reusable triggers expected for a catch Event. "
      with the following text:
    • "References the reusable event definitions that are triggers expected for a CatchEvent. Reusable event definitions are defined as top-level elements. These event
      definitions can be shared by different Catch and Throw Events."
      2 - For the eventDefinitions Attribute, replace the following text:
    • "EventDefinitionRefs (EventDefinition) is an attribute that defines the type of contained results expected for a throw Event."
      with the following text:
    • "Defines the event definitions that are triggers expected for a CatchEvent. These event definitions are only valid inside the current Event."
      b) in Table 10.76 ThrowEvent attributes and model associations
      1 - For the eventDefinitionRefs Attribute, replace the following text:
    • "EventDefinitionRefs (EventDefinition) is an attribute that defines the type of reusable triggers expected for a throw Event."
      with the following text:
    • "References the reusable event definitions that are results expected for a ThrowEvent. Reusable event definitions are defined as top-level elements. These event
      definitions can be shared by different Catch and Throw Events."
      2 - For the eventDefinitions Attribute, replace the following text:
    • "EventDefinitionRefs (EventDefinition) is an attribute that defines the type of contained results expected for a throw Event."
      with the following text:
    • "Defines the event definitions that are results expected for a ThrowEvent. These event definitions are only valid inside the current Event."
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 175, Table 10-11, Spelling of Business in Attribute Name

  • Key: BPMN2-30
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14302
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 08, 2009

    On p. 175 BusinesRuleTaskImplementation should be
    BusinessRuleTaskImplementation and
    BuisnessRuleWebService should be BusinessRuleWebService.

    Spelling of Business

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    (a) Table 10.11, Column 1, Row 1: Change "BusinesRuleTaskImplementation" to "BusinessRuleTaskImplementation"
    (b) Table 10.11, Column 1, Row 1: Change "BuisnessRuleWebService" to "BusinessRuleWebService"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 370, Table 12-6, references to Event Sub-Process

  • Key: BPMN2-29
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14301
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by asir...@trisotech.com, Jul 07, 2009

    In Table 12-6, many references are made to the use of different types of
    Start Events for Event Sub-Processes.

    Are Event Sub-Processes part of a Choreography diagram or are Event Sub-
    Processes represented by Choreography Sub-Processes in a Choreography
    diagram, like other Sub-processes involved in Message exchange between
    Participants?

    If Event Sub-Processes are not pat of a Choreography diagram why all these
    references to Event Sub-Processes in the Choreography section?

    Comment 1 by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 13, 2009

    If Event Sub-Processes are not part of a Choreography diagram why all these
    references to Event Sub-Processes in Table 12-6

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Table 12.6: Use of Start Events in Choreography
    (a) Row for Escalation: add the following in column 2: "No. An Escalation is only visible to a single Participant. That Participant will have to send a Message to the
    other Participants."
    (b) Row for Compensation: add the following in column 2: "No. Compensation is handled within a single Participant (anorchestration Process)."

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 243 Table 10-76 the definition of EventDefinitionRefs and eventDefinitions is duplicated in ThrowEvent and CatchEve

  • Key: BPMN2-37
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14310
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    On p.243, the definition of EventDefinitionRefs and eventDefinitions is
    duplicated in ThrowEvent Table 10-76 and CatchEvent Table 10-75.

    All events either inherit from
    ThrowEvent or CatchEvent, so why not define these attributes in the Event
    class instead, in order to avoid duplication?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This issue is merged with 14304
    Disposition: Duplicate

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 165, Table 10-7 Required attribute cardinality explicitly defined

  • Key: BPMN2-36
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14309
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 13, 2009

    The cardinality of parameterRef is specified as [1].
    In other cases when attributes are required the cardinality is not
    specified

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    Table 10.7, page 133 (163 pdf), first row, first column: delete "[1]"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 047, Section 7.2 Properties is presented as a Data element

  • Key: BPMN2-39
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14312
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    Page 047, Section 7.2 Properties is presented as a Data element
    Not sure we understand that one yet.

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    All the elements listed in section 7.2 are graphical elements except for Properties. Thus, it should be removed from the list:
    (a): Section 7.2, page 20 (50 pdf), last bullet in list for Data: remove bullet item
    (b): Section 7.2, page 20 (50 pdf), Data section description: change "five (5) elements" to "four (4) elements"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

The attribute name is duplicated across many, many, many classes

  • Key: BPMN2-38
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14311
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 29, 2009

    The attribute "name" is duplicated across many, many, many classes.

    Why not have a new "NamebleElement" class that specify the name or putting
    it in
    BaseElement instead of having it duplicated in many places?

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    This is not an implementation issue.
    Disposition: Closed, No Change

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT

Page 331, Typo Figure references 11-3 but should be 11-4

  • Key: BPMN2-35
  • Legacy Issue Number: 14308
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Trisotech ( Mr. Denis Gagne)
  • Summary:

    Reported by dga...@trisotech.com, Jul 13, 2009

    The first sentence under figure 11-4 says: In figure 11-3...
    should be figure 11-4

  • Reported: BPMN 2.0b1 — Fri, 4 Sep 2009 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BPMN 2.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    In Section 11, on page 296 (326 pdf), first sentence in first paragraph after Figure 11-4: change "Figure 11-3" to "Figure 11-4"

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT