#3 Approvals & Decision Handling

#3 Approvals & Decision Handling

Decisions in a process: an exclusive gateway reads the data of the work item and chooses the path, with a default path and a loop back.

Use the process template as it is or adjust and extend it to your needs.

This template shows how a process decides. After a task, an exclusive gateway evaluates the expressions on its outgoing paths. They read the data of the Jira work item, here its priority.

One path is the default: the process takes it when no expression is true. Another path leads back to an earlier task, so a rejected piece of work is reopened instead of created again.

One task is called Wrong Expression on purpose. Its expression contains a mistake, and you see how Flower reports such a mistake as a comment on the process instance.

Use it to learn how to write conditions and why every exclusive gateway needs a default path.

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