Changing an Activity, Event, or Gateway Type

As you develop a process model on the process editor canvas, you might find that a task activity, event, or gateway you have added to the process is not the correct type. You can always delete the task activity, event, or gateway and add the desired type in its place, but Designer enables you to change the task activity, event, or gateway type from within the task activity, event, or gateway itself.

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There are limitations to the changes you can make from within an boundary intermediate event. For example, a non-interrupting intermediate boundary error event is not supported on a service task activity type. Therefore, the non-interrupting intermediate boundary error event is not present on the list of available choices in the right-click menu, nor can you configure the interrupting behavior on the General page of the Properties view. For more information, see Available Change Type Selections.

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For additional information and procedures for changing task activities, see Changing Task Types. For the supported boundary event types, see About Interrupting Behavior for Boundary Intermediate Events.

Right-click the activity, event, or gateway and click Change [Task, Event, or Gateway] Type. Click the desired task, event, or gateway type in the resulting selection menu(s).

Click the task activity, event, or gateway. On the General page of the Properties view, select the desired task or event in the Type list. Select the Allow [boundary event type] to interrupt step check box if you want interrupting behavior (not available for all boundary event types).