Submitting to multiple participants simultaneously (parallel/rendezvous)

[Former Community Member]

Hi,



We have created a form where the initiators need to select form 30 users (list) some 6 participants to send the form to them and then get their feedback all at once.



Is it possible, using the standard QPAC (with, maybe, additional scripting), to send the submitted form to several participants in parallel/rendezvous way and send it to the initiator after all participants submitted their work items? It seems that there is no straight forward way like what we used to have in Adobe Workflow 6.2 environment.



You input is highly appreciated.



BR,



Yasser

[Former Community Member]

You might do this by creating a database table for storing information that you want to rendezvous. After the initator has selected the user list, have your workflow branch off to send the standard asynchronous work items to each user. As each user finishes their task, store their results in the database along with a system of denoting that they have responded. Then each branch should check that same flag again to see if all users have responded. If not, the branch dies, or you could have some sort of notification step if necessary.



If all users have responded and stored their results in the database, the last branch to do so will see it, and continue to a convergence step which can then load and merge all of the responses and continue with the workflow.



It's not pretty, but it would work. The challenge is in designing the database table to store the responses, and the methods for using that table to monitor completion.