Tutorial: BPMN Boundary Events and How to Use them in Camunda

Within BPMN, boundary events provide a way to model what should happen if an event occurs while an activity is already active. A boundary event is an intermediate catch event and can be either interrupting or non-interrupting. Boundary events are also most effective when paired with other BPMN elements such as other tasks and sub-processes.

Interested in learning how to supercharge your business processes with the help of BPMN boundary events? In this step-by-step tutorial based on the very real-world example of how a vampire spends their evening, Senior Developer Advocate Niall Deehan will discuss:

• Interrupting BPMN Boundary Events and how to use them
• Non-Interrupting BPMN Boundary Events, their pitfalls, and their main use cases
• Combining BPMN Boundary Events and BPMN Sub-processes
• BPMN Error Boundary Events
• BPMN Escalation Boundary Events
• BPMN Compensation Events

What happens when a vampire slayer interrupts this vampire’s night out? This will all be explained using BPMN – a very natural and supernatural pairing, if you ask us.


Keep watching to learn:

00:00 – Welcome and Introduction
01:10 – What are BPMN interrupting boundary events, how do they work, and what are the three main use cases?
03:40 – How to use a message event as an interrupting boundary event
05:25 – How to use a signal event as an interrupting boundary event
06:45 – What are non-interrupting boundary events and how do they work?
10:30 – How to use a message event as a non-interrupting boundary event
13:20 – How to combine boundary events and subprocesses, including how to avoid the pitfall of losing track of tokens
18:55 – How to combine sub-processes and error boundary events
25:23 – What are BPMN error boundary events and how to implement them with BPMN sub-processes?
27:17 – What are BPMN escalation boundary events and how to implement them with BPMN sub-processes?
29:57 – What are BPMN compensation events and how to implement them?



In this video, Niall is using Camunda SaaS Modeler: https://bit.ly/3SaeP3o

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[playlist] Learn Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN): http://bit.ly/4pxmrNd

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Additional Resources:

[video] BPMN Message Events and Message Flows Explained:
https://bit.ly/3P81I1l
[video] BPMN Intermediate Events and How to Use Them in Camunda: https://bit.ly/43CwVSW
[video] BPMN Subprocesses and How to Use Them in Camunda: https://bit.ly/4jesPFd
[docs] BPMN Boundary Events: https://bit.ly/438LAUU
[guide] Basic Concepts of BPMN Events: https://bit.ly/3RBnV9k
[docs] Overview of Events: https://bit.ly/42xlmvc
[Camunda Academy course] BPMN - Events: https://bit.ly/3EwWkTU


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More about BPMN:

BPMN, an open standard maintained by the Object Management Group (OMG), is a graphical notation that was developed to represent complex processes and enable greater collaboration between different teams. Visually representing business processes can help:

• provide a clear vision of how they operate from end to end.
• improve performance and efficiency.
• reduce repetitive tasks and errors.
• enable greater innovation.

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