Boomi Process Call:
Process call shape is one of the shapes from the execute category that you can find in the shapes panel. In some special scenarios, you need to have the same logic set in multiple different processes. In this case, you can reduce the efforts without doing/creating the same logic multiple times. Instead, you can create a subprocess and re-use the same subprocess in all of those required different processes. By doing this you can reduce time/effort.
Considerations:
- Process call shape consists of sections like Name, Process, and options like wait for the process to complete or abort if subprocess fails.
- Using the process call shape, you can execute another process from within a main process. But that subprocess is considered a separate process execution.
- The subprocess should be referenced by a parent or a main process.
- This is used mainly while designing common components like error-handling processes
- Using the subprocess, you can perform the entire logic inside the subprocess and just return the final output documents to the main process by placing the return document at the end of the branch in the subprocess.
- You can define extensions for the main processes and for the subprocesses as well.
- There are two types of sub-processes are there:
- Data Passthrough type.
- Data non-passthrough type
- The other points to consider while configuring the process call shape are the options/checkboxes mentioned below:
- Wait for the process to complete: If this is selected Boomi runtime will wait for the completion of the subprocess execution and then only it will proceed to the next steps of execution in the main process or else, it will just execute the subprocess and the next steps in the main process parallelly.
- Abort if subprocess fails: If this is selected, the parent process execution will be stopped entirely if there are any errors inside the subprocess.
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