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Sending a connector from a decision block to another process flow

Hi there, how can I send a certain portion of tokens to a different process flow? I hoped to use a decision block and route a portion of tokens to a different flow. I see that I cannot drag and drop the connector to a different flow. Can I somehow destroy and create tokens in the other flow at the same rate?

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In this case, it's best to use Jason's suggestion of pushing the token to a list that is being monitored in the instanced destination process flow.


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Hi @Kaitlin M, you can add a 'create tokens' activity that your decision block routes to and use that to create a token in another process flow. You can copy over all of the labels to the new token too. I'm not sure of a way to make sure they are destroyed at the same rate, but if you make the new token a child to the first, the original (parent) token won't be destroyed until the child token is. Not sure if that would be applicable in your case or not.
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For traceability I'd prefer to push to a global list and pull from it in another process flow. Looking at the receiver activity alone you'll not be able to tell from where the token came.

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Hey @Eric M, thanks for the reply. I just tried to do this and routed the token to an activity in a different flow. I received this error:

Error: Invalid destination at create tokens activity "Direct to Chair" in process flow "Ambulance Flow". Destination cannot be an activity in a Fixed Resource or Task Executer ProcessFlow.

Am I missing something? I routed it to an Acquire Resource activity. Are there only certain types of activities I can route it to?

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