We have a process where people need to process requests in bulk. What we'd

Perhaps if you think of each of these tasks in a process it might be easier.

You could have the process have the option of creating X number of processes via a quick task going in to a subprocess that then replicates the parent process X times (held in a variable).

The child process then has a receive message event that takes a key from the parent process, which is the condition on the recieve message event leading to an end event or terminate on the child process. The alternative and probably recommended way is to pass a value byreference to the child process on input of the subprocess.

This way another quick task on the parent process, call it "terminate child processes" which then passes perhaps a boolean value byreference to the child processes. Instead of a receive message process you could have a rule event that leads to the terminate whenever that boolean value is activated. You can then also set data within the child processes such as a status variable which is changed when the rule event fires, you can use this to display on reports etc.

Hope I understood this right??

Perhaps if you think of each of these tasks in a process it might be easier.

You could have the process have the option of creating X number of processes via a quick task going in to a subprocess that then replicates the parent process X times (held in a variable).

The child process then has a receive message event that takes a key from the parent process, which is the condition on the recieve message event leading to an end event or terminate on the child process. The alternative and probably recommended way is to pass a value byreference to the child process on input of the subprocess.

This way another quick task on the parent process, call it "terminate child processes" which then passes perhaps a boolean value byreference to the child processes. Instead of a receive message process you could have a rule event that leads to the terminate whenever that boolean value is activated. You can then also set data within the child processes such as a status variable which is changed when the rule event fires, you can use this to display on reports etc.

Hope I understood this right??