BPM step types are wrappers around the underlying (executable) process step types. The BPM step types have similar names to the underlying process step types. The properties of the BPM step types generally follow the names of the config properties of the process step types, but check the documentation for the BPM step types.
| Reference | BPM step type | Description | Process step type |
| call | Call BPM step type | Make a call through a channel. Other step types provide more specialised calls:
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Call |
| chat | Chat BPM step type | Participate in a chat conversation with a partner. |
Chat |
| delete | Chat BPM step type | Participate in a chat conversation with a partner. |
Delete |
| download | Download BPM step type | Download one or more files associated with a worker, and optionally confirm that the download has taken place. |
Download |
| evaluate | Evaluate BPM step type | Evaluate an expression on some data and write the result to a data area or attribute. |
Evaluate |
| form | Form BPM step type | Show a form to the user, either updateable or read-only. |
Form |
| frame | Frame BPM Step Type | Show a webpage in an inline frame (iframe). |
Frame |
| getGroup | Get group BPM step type | Return details, workers or sub-groups of a group. |
Get group |
| notify | Notify BPM step type | Create a notification, which is typically used to send an email. |
Notify |
| receive | Evaluate BPM step type | Evaluate an expression on some data and write the result to a data area or attribute. |
Evaluate |
| redirect | Receive BPM step type | Receive data or status sent through a channel. This is the same as the set BPM step type, but with removeRequest defaulted to true. |
Set |
| reminder | Reminder BPM step type | Set, update or run a reminder. |
Reminder |
| schedule | Schedule BPM step type | Create or cancel a request to run an action in the future. |
Schedule |
| send | Send BPM step type | Send status or data through a channel/connection. |
Send |
| sendProces | Send process BPM step type | Send a process definition to a partner, so that it can participate in a process with a worker. This is typically picked up by a control worker that creates a new worker and instantiates it with the process. sendProcess is inserted automatically by the process compiler. |
Send process |
| set | Set BPM step type | Set status and/or data. This does not support user interaction (show is set to false), See User Set for set associated with user input. |
Set |
| switch | Switch BPM step type | Set the state to control the flow of execution flow. This is based on the evaluate step type. The script defaults to "data", so you can use data to select a state, e.g. "%{data:result.nextStep}". |
Evaluate |
| userSet | User set BPM step type | Set data and status based on user input. |
Set |
See Core BPM step types for an up-to-date list.
State and status processing
Any flows that start or end with a user task will involve the creation of a status. Settings these up in Camunda needs some care.
- For tasks starting at a non-user task, the default status of "*" will suffice.
- For tasks starting at a user task, you must set the status property of the flow to the appropriate button value (such as "submit").
- For choices following a task, you must set the status of each branch to the appropriate button value (such as "accept" and "cancel").
If you want to add a name, you can set either set the status using the "reference/name" convention, e.g. set status to "accept/NDA accepted". Or you can use the flow name to set the name. If you use the flow name for a flow from a non-user task, you must set the status property of the flow to "*".
