Issue - 78 - New value for initiate on multi-starts

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Issue - 78 - New value for initiate on multi-starts
Status: open

Date added: 22 Oct 2003

Submitter: Yaron Goland

Date submitted: 22 October 2003

Description: The use of the initiate attribute on correlations in
multi-start activities can easily lead to misunderstanding. The
'initiate='yes'' value is only true on the first multi-start activity
that fires, the rest are magically transformed into 'initiate='no''
once the first multi-start fires. One can easily imagine the resulting
confusion. To prevent this confusion perhaps we should add a new value
for initiate such as 'initiate='multistart''. This shows that the
programmer understands the special semantics of correlation sets on
multi-start activities.

Changes: 22 Oct 2003 - new issue

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