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In previous versions of Metastorm BPM (and e-work before that),
we had the misnamed ‘Sub-Procedure’ Stages. They should have
been called ‘Sub-Map’ stages, really. Although sub-procedure
stages allowed a form of primitive parallel process design, the
construct was rather limited and very clumsy to implement
effectively. You needed to understand the Metastorm BPM
database structure to some extent, as well as use a fair amount
of SQL. In addition, to manage them in a robust manner, you
needed to know how to implement flags and flagged actions
properly and efficiently.
In Metastorm BPM 9 the mechanism seems identical. However
now that we have a somewhat different architecture, we can
potentially adapt this to manage parallel processes properly and
more easily.
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History of Linked Processes
