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Custom Lanes [message #850726]

Fri, 20 April 2012 09:13

Daniel Colomer

Messages: 4
Registered: April 2012

Junior Member

Hi,

I was reading the extension point description and I was wondering whether it is possible or not to extned other elements than just Tasks. I would like for example to have my MyCustomLane that for example would not allow Gateways to be inside.

Is that possible with the runtime extension point? If so could someone give me a hint or something to start with because I am a little bit lost here.

Thank you very much in advance.

Dani.

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Re: Custom Lanes [message #853550 is a reply to message #850726]

Mon, 23 April 2012 05:44

Daniel Colomer

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Registered: April 2012

Junior Member

I understand that I can easily provide my own feature container that tailors the behaviour of Lane. But in my case I would like to still be able to model with the default Lane construct in the same diagram for example.

Is it possible?

Thanks again.

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Re: Custom Lanes [message #855234 is a reply to message #853550]

Tue, 24 April 2012 16:22

Robert Brodt

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Registered: August 2010
Location: Colorado Springs, CO

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Hi Daniel,

It's the AddFeature of the objects being added that control whether or not they can be added to a container (see canAdd()) so in this case I suppose you'd have to subclass the feature containers of all the gateways (ExclusiveGatewayFeatureContainer, InclusiveGatewayFeatureContainer, etc.) and override canAdd(). See also DefaultAddGatewayFeature.canAdd() for how to test if the drop target is a Lane.

HTH
Bob

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