Cancelling a process from another process

Could you please tell me how you had done the above scenario.

Hi Satish - you need to do the following:

• ensure your target process models include some unique shared business token e.g. Customer Number, Order Number
• create a Process Report that returns the ProcessIds of the Process Model instances that you want to cancel, filtered by the above business token
• then you have a choice:
  • use the 'Cancel Process' Smart Service to cancel the process instances identified by the ProcessIds generated by the above report
  • use the 'Send Message'/'Receive Message' pattern as described in the original post above

Hope this helps

Regards

S>

Hi Satish - you need to do the following:

• ensure your target process models include some unique shared business token e.g. Customer Number, Order Number
• create a Process Report that returns the ProcessIds of the Process Model instances that you want to cancel, filtered by the above business token
• then you have a choice:
  • use the 'Cancel Process' Smart Service to cancel the process instances identified by the ProcessIds generated by the above report
  • use the 'Send Message'/'Receive Message' pattern as described in the original post above

Hope this helps

Regards

S>

Thanks Stewart

Hi Stewart 

I am able to send a message and receive message events to subprocesses but after I am unable to close Parent Processes.I want to kill parent processes as well. Could please guide on that.

Is the parent calling the sub-process synchronously or asynchronously? 

Stewart - I would say in my scenario - the parent process called the sub-process synchonously. It's actually calling an earlier executed version of the same process that has yet to be completed. 

Here's the scenario I had: I had a situation where an accountant starts a process to edit an account. Once he enters the changes, it goes to someone else to review and certify the changes. Before being certified, the accountant (or another accountant) might need to make additional changes. So - if the first change hadn't been certified, it needed to be cancelled. So - I used an 'Execute Process Report' node to find find the previous review task(s) and captures those active process id(s). In the Data Outputs node for the 'Execute Process Report' - I save the process id(s) that need to be cancelled, which are then used in the Cancel Message. 

Hope this helps!

Hi Judy - I got your use case and solution, I was trying to help Satish with his :-)

Thanks for responding to me Judy and Stewart.....

But  I had used complete task smart service it worked by choosing the canceling path Action IDs in UI. But in our requirement Action IDs shouldn't be displayed in UI. Is it possible to get an automatic canceling path action ID based on open tasks in Processes Model?

You should be able to capture the Action IDs in the data output (not something you'd have to display in the UI) and use that to cancel. Did you look at this related discussion? This may help.  https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/process/9693/cancelling-specific-tasks-from-a-separate-process 

I approached in the above way also but I hadn't got it Judy

Hi satishk0001 i am getting this error "You do not have permission to cancel this process" while executing cancel process smart service. Can you help on this

Hi Pawan, make sure you have sufficient privilege to do this action. Check process model security and then check if you have required permission to cancel it..hope it helps