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Intermediate Events

An Intermediate Event is used to perform actions on a token such as pausing its movement, creating additional tokens, or discarding active tokens. Below is a list of Intermediate Events and their functions.

Element TypeSymbolFunction
Intermediate EventThe "Intermediate Event" icon. This icon resembles a circle with a thick white border.The default Intermediate Event. This event cannot be configured, and should be changed to a different intermediate type.
Message Intermediate Catch EventThe "Message Intermediate Catch Event" icon. This icon resembles a circle with a thick white border, with an envelope inside.Automation of this event is not implemented at the time of writing.
Message Intermediate Throw EventThe "Message Intermediate Throw Event" icon. This icon resembles a circle with a thick white border, with a black envelope inside.Automation of this event is not implemented at the time of writing.
Timer Intermediate Catch EventThe "Timer Intermediate Catch Event" icon. This icon resembles a circle with a thick white border, with a clock inside.Pauses the process token for a duration that is specified using a Lodash expression, or for a fixed length of time.
Escalation Intermediate Throw EventThe "Escalation Intermediate Throw Event" icon. This icon resembles a circle with a thick white border, with a black upwards arrow inside.Automation of this event is not implemented at the time of writing.
Conditional Intermediate Catch EventThe "Conditional Intermediate Catch Event" icon. This icon resembles a circle with a thick white border, with a page of writing inside.Automation of this event is not implemented at the time of writing.
Link Intermediate Catch EventThe "Link Intermediate Catch Event" icon. This icon resembles a circle with a thick white border, with a white arrow pointing to the right, inside.Automation of this event is not implemented at the time of writing.
Link Intermediate Throw EventThe "Link Intermediate Throw Event" icon. This icon resembles a circle with a thick white border, with a black arrow pointing to the right, inside.Automation of this event is not implemented at the time of writing.
Compensation Intermediate Throw EventThe "Compensation Intermediate Throw Event" icon. This icon resembles a circle with a thick white border, with a "rewind" symbol inside. The rewind symbol is two arrows point to the left.Automation of this event is not implemented at the time of writing.
Signal Intermediate Catch EventThe "Signal Intermediate Catch Event" icon. This icon resembles a circle with a thick white border, with white equilateral triangle inside.Creates a new token when the conditions for a table are met. Also discards all other active tokens. These conditions are specified using an OData query.
Signal Intermediate Throw EventThe "Signal Intermediate Throw Event" icon. This icon resembles a circle with a thick white border, with black equilateral triangle inside.Automation of this event is not implemented at the time of writing.