Paralell activities in playbook

iap
Tera Expert

I'm using Process Automation designer to create a Playbook for CSM and I'm trying to have 2 activities happen at the same time in a lane. That was achieved by using "Start rule = After Previous" in one of them and "Start rule = With Previous" on the other.
The problem comes with the next activity. I need it to start only after the other two finish, but since the options only refer to "Previous", it's only waiting for the latest one. I see that on the Activity definition there is an additional Start Rule = "After Activities", but if I try to select it I get "Invalid start rule for activity. Valid start rules: With Previous, Manual, After Previous, Immediately"
Anyone with experience on this that can shed some light?

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Hi Pranit,

We didn't find a way to use the Start Rule = "After Activities", but we found a workaround:

To have the activity right after the parallel ones to way until both the other two finish, we started a new lane:

 

Lane 1 (Immediately)Lane 2 (After Previous)
Activity one (Start rule = immediately)Sequential Activity
Parallel activity one (Start rule = After Previous) 
Parallel activity two (Start rule = With Previous) 

 

This way, "Sequential activity" only starts after "Parallel activity one" and "Parallel activity two" are both completed.

 

I hope this helps 🙂

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Pranit k
Tera Contributor

We were facing the same issue for playbook activity sequencing. Did you find any solution for the same?

Hi Pranit,

We didn't find a way to use the Start Rule = "After Activities", but we found a workaround:

To have the activity right after the parallel ones to way until both the other two finish, we started a new lane:

 

Lane 1 (Immediately)Lane 2 (After Previous)
Activity one (Start rule = immediately)Sequential Activity
Parallel activity one (Start rule = After Previous) 
Parallel activity two (Start rule = With Previous) 

 

This way, "Sequential activity" only starts after "Parallel activity one" and "Parallel activity two" are both completed.

 

I hope this helps 🙂

pranit
Tera Contributor

We have requirement: based on activity 2 is completed then activity 3,4,9,10 and 12 will need to start, but activity 9,10 are in 2nd lane and activity 12 in 3rd lane. 

for ex.

Lane 1 (Immediately)Lane 2 (Immediately)Lane 3 (after previous)
activity 2 (After previous)activity 9 (with previous)activity 8 (Immediately)
activity 3 (with previous)activity 10 (with previous)activity 12 (after previous)
activity 4 (with previous)activity 11 (with previous)activity 13 (after previous)
activity 5 (After previous)  
   

 

how we can achieve this?

Hi Pranit,

I'm not sure it can be achieved keeping the lanes as they are, we didn't find an alternative to using the lanes as "breaks".

The solution I see here would be to rearrange the activities as follows:

 

Lane 1 (Immediately)Lane 2 (after previous)Lane 3 (after previous)
activity 2 (After previous)activity 5 (after previous)   activity 8 (after previous)
activity 3 (After previous)activity 11 (after previous)activity 13 (after previous)
activity 4 (with previous)  
activity 9 (with previous)  
activity 10 (with previous)  
activity 12 (with previous)  

 

Kind regards,

Irene