JR50245: PROCESS DESIGNER FAILS TO PROVIDE AUTOCOMPLETE CAPABILITIES FOR MULITPLE DECISION SERVICES

Version 8.5 Refresh Pack 5 for the IBM Business Process Manager products
Version 8.5 Refresh Pack 6 for the IBM Business Process Manager products

APAR status

• Closed as fixed if next.

Error description

• The error occurs in situations where you create multiple
  decisions services,
  as in the following steps:
  1. Create two decision services "d1" and "d2". Specify two
  outputs for each, "d1_yes", "d1_no", "d2_yes", and "d2_no",
  respectively.
  2. Create a business process definition (BPD) named "Testing
  Decisions".
  3. Add two decision gateways to the BPD, "g1" and "g2".
  4. For "g1", select "d1" as the decision service under the
  "Decision" property; do the same for "g2" and "d2".
  5. Notice that when using tw.decision, you only see the "d1" or
  "d2" output variables available in auto completion, not both.
  
  PRODUCTS AFFECTED:
  IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) Advanced
  IBM BPM Standard
  IBM BPM Express
  

Local fix

• A workaround for this is to not directly switch to gateway 2,
  but deselect gateway 1 first (by clicking anywhere on the
  diagram) and then select gateway 2 (this forces UI widgets to
  reload).
  

Problem summary

• The UI does not get updated properly when switching from one
  gateway to a second one when both of them have the same number
  of outgoing flows. The system thinks it does not need to reload
  the widgets (so the JS autocomplete feature shows old
  variables).
  
  A fix will be incorporated into a later release that will make
  sure widgets are properly reloaded when switching from one
  gateway to any other one. This will properly update JavaScript
  autocompletion.
  

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

Applicable component levels

• R751 PSN

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