Gates
Often, we require gates in our process diagrams when we have complex transitions between steps. Gates help to define a variety of transitions, loops, and circuits. Let us have a look at the three different types of gates available in Bonita Studio:
XOR gate: An XOR or exclusive gateway is most commonly used during merging conditions when any of the two or more steps need to be completed for the workflow to move ahead. When there are multiple inputs to an XOR gateway, the process will move to the output of the XOR gateway when any one of the input conditions becomes true. If there are multiple outputs for an XOR gateway, all the transitions will be randomly evaluated one by one and the first true condition will be evaluated and the process will move forward without evaluating the other transitions.
Figure 4.3: The XOR gateway
AND gate: An AND gate is used in cases when certain activities need to be carried out in parallel. The AND gate is both convergent and divergent. In the case of convergent...
