Removal of work item for parallel processing

[Mike Pokraka]

Hi Dale,
The easiest is to use subflows for your approvals and use events to
'communicate' between your flows. There are different ways to accomplish
this, but the general idea is that e.g. one decision outcome is followed
by a 'create event' step and the other flows have a 'wait for event'
with some kind of loop construct to make it then wait for another
'continue' type event (raised again in the original flow).

Some logic is also needed so that the flow that raises the event doesn't
receive/doesn't wait for it's own event.

Cheers,
Mike

Dale Brown wrote:
> Users want the workflow we’re building to be able to remove work item
> from all in boxes based on if a certain status is chosen.
> 
> In parallel processing how would this be accomplished?
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> Example – work item went to three different departments via parallel
> processing.   Say there are 2 agents in each department.
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> An agent in department 2 grabs it first, which would remove it from the
> other agent’s inbox from department 2.  If the agent who grabbed it
> 
> does not approve, but set it to a postpone type status, user wants the
> workflow to remove it from departments 1 and 3 agents’ inboxes as well.
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> What would be the best solution to do this?   Also when the agent who
> grabbed it eventually approves it, users want workflow to then put item
> 
> back into the other 2 departments agents’ inboxes and continue with the
> parallel processing,  before advancing to next approval step in the
> workflow .  
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> Any thoughts as to the best way to accomplish this also ?
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> Dale R. Brown
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