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Sub microflow as background job

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I have a sub microflow which triggers a webservice to change data in a back-office application. This microflow is not relevant for the user and I don't want to let the user wait for this process. How to execute the sub microflow as a background process, so the 'higher level' microflow continues?

asked 2009-09-01

Floor van Gageldonk

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From my point of view, you should set the 'higher level' microflow as a background process. As far as I know, there's no property in the modeler to set a sub microflow as a background process.

answered 2009-09-01

Fedor Klinkenberg

Jasper van der Hoek · Accepted Answer · 2009-09-01

What you can do is use some java code to execute that background proces(microflow) asynchronously. This means that you call 1 java action which will call another microflow and won't wait for the response. Here is the code to call a microflow asynchronously

Core.executeAsync(this.getContext(), "ModuleName.MicroflowName");

But there are some things that you should keep in mind when doing this!! Normally all exceptions are handled by the XAS and are logged or shown in the client. But because the xas didn't call the microflow you have to handle all exceptions yourself.