Rule Event and Activity Chaining

Question

Hello, 
 Is the Rule Event node supposed to break activity chaining? 
 If yes then could someone point me how to achieve something similiar? I've got to wait for all incoming 0 to 4 flows to finish and then start the Statuses PM, all without breaking AC so i thought rule event was perfect for that but its breaking the AC. I know adding XORs and dummies in each route going into AND would solve this but im running low on nodes so maybe theres more efficient way. I'm on Appian 23.4

Thanks!

Stefan Helzle · Accepted Answer

A rule event is made for a different purpose and will break chaining. 
 In scenarios in which I need to wait for 1-n parallel flows, I start all of them, but include the skipping and merging logic in each parallel flow. This way I can just wait for all of them in a simple AND.

Varun Teja Gurrapu · Answer

Hi Łukasz Kolmer , Activity Chaining is considered to make process complete faster when there are no breaks needed, you had activity chaining all throughtout the process model. Activity chain breaks when the node waits for 5 or more seconds and the process will be on hold, never goes forward. 
 your rule event may be taking some time to process, but the only solution is to take off chaining where the node continues to take some time to evaluate. try to optimize the nodes, and put proper chaining where the node doesn't take much time to proceed further.

Łukasz Kolmer · Answer

I was afraid thats gonna be the case. Thanks!

Rule Event and Activity Chaining

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