Description
A diverging Exclusive Gateway (Decision) is used to create alternative paths within a process flow. This is basically the diversion point in the road for a process. Only one alternative path can be taken for a given instance of the process.
A Exclusive Gateway can be thought of as a question that is asked at a particular point in the process. The question has a defined set of alternative answers. Each question is associated with two or more condition expressions associated with outgoing sequence flows of the Gateway.
A converging Exclusive Gateway is used to merge alternative paths. All incoming sequence Flows tokens will be routed to the outgoing sequence flow without synchronizing them.
Notation
- Without an Internal Marker Exclusive Gateway
- An Internal Marker Exclusive Gateway
Example
Diverging Exclusive Gateway
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