Signature

Force Completion/Early Completion Pattern

Classification

Human Task Pattern

Intent

Forcefully or abruptly completing a task.

Motivation

To cater to those business requirements that require early completion of the task regardless of other participants in the workflow.

Applicability

The early completion pattern offers you the flexibility to abruptly complete a task. For example, an insurance claim goes to an insurance agent and then to the claim manager. If the first participant (the insurance agent) rejects it, we can end the workflow without sending it to the next participant (the claim manager). Such cases can be modeled in the BPMN flow; however, this makes the model complex. Hence, modeling them in the routing slip makes things efficient.

Implementation

To perform the abrupt completion of the task, there are two methods: