Exclusive Gateway

Use the Exclusive Gateway to model a decision in the process.

An exclusive gateway has multiple outgoing sequence flows. Each one has an execution that evaluates to a boolean value (true or false). The process will continue with the sequence flow where the defined condition is true.

You can also define a default sequence flow (see Particularity).

• If you use an exclusive gateway, only one sequence flow is selected.

• If you have modeled multiple sequence flows, make sure they are mutually exclusive. If more than one sequence flow is true, a random decision is made as to which of the processes the process follows.

• If no condition evaluates to true and you have not defined a default flow, the xUML Runtime will throw an exception. We recommend avoiding this scenario.

• Name

• Description

• Sequence Flow Type (see Particularity and Relation)

An exclusive gateway can have one outgoing flow that is marked as the Default sequence flow. This is the flow of the process that will be followed if all other conditions do not match.

The default flow is marked with a slash on the relation:

In the Attributes Panel, you can mark a sequence flow as to be the default:

For default sequence flows you can remove the execution as it is not evaluated.

None.

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