Relocating Activities

In some cases you might complete an activity and proceed with further activities in the process, when you notice you missed something or e.g. entered wrong data. If the activity you like to go back to, is marked as possible target point for relocation, you have the option to undo all activities that followed that activity and move back to the activity in question.

Please refer to chapter Relocating Activities in the Stardust Concepts Relocating Activities in the Stardust Concepts of our online documentation for details on the concept of relocation.

Relocating Procedure

To relocate an activity, you have the following options:

Clicking the relocation option opens the Relocation dialog. A drop-down list provides all possible relocation targets. These are the preceeding activities, which have been marked as Is Relocation Target. For details on how to mark an activity for relocation, please refer to section Setting General Properties of chapter Specifying Activity Properties in the Business Process Modeling Handbook for the Modeling perspective or section Modifying Activity Properties of chapter Specifying Activities in the Developer Handbook Setting General Properties of chapter Specifying Activity Properties in the Documentation - Developer Handbook for the Eclipse modeler respectively.

Relocate Activity
Figure: Relocating Dialog

Select the relocation target activity and click Relocate to start the relocation or Cancel to cancel the action.

After the relocation is invoked, all activities following the target relocation activity will be aborted and the target activity is added to the worklist. Note that it still contains data that was entered, e.g. in the manual activity panel or as process attachment. You can now change the data or other actions you performed on the activity and continue the workflow.

Restrictions

Note that relocation is restricted in the following way: