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Monday, July 12th, 2021 10:50 PM

Workflow Dev Problem in Eclipse

Have any of you had this issue? How did you resolve it?

I was blocking out a workflow in Eclipse and at the end of the day, I saved it. When I opened the file the next day, a user task and a script task box were missing from the diagram. I recreated them but the old ones are still “there” somewhere. They do not have a candidate user defined so they are stopping me from even testing the workflow.

I can search for the invisible objects, but I am unable to delete them or even view them on the diagram. I do see them in the left side navigation, but again, I’m unable to either to edit or delete them.

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3 years ago

I have come across this issue before, but forget if there is a specific way to fix it.
Typically I would just open up the BPMN file in a text editor (such as notepad++ or VS Code) and edit this directly as it is just an XML file.
Just save a backup first and then try and look for the offending items and any references to it (e.g the bottom part of the XML holds the linkages between tasks / gateways and what not and their x,y coordinates on the page.
It might take a few times to do it properly, but that should do the trick.

Hope this helps.

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Yes, I sometimes have that problem as well.
I do not know of any other way to directly edit the XML by hand. Instead of opening it up in another editor, you can just right click the file in eclipse and open with the generic text editor (make sure to close the diagram view first).
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Sad, but it work fine.

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3 years ago

Dan and Arthur,
That did the trick.
Thanks,
Richard

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