Given the error message you shared, are you using Node Command Line tools (REPL)? Or in which setup are you trying to install the token simulation extension?
That won’t work then, any bpmn-js application needs to run in the browser. I’d recommend checking out the starters and see how to run a simple Modeler application.
Thank you for your fast response, Niklas. Obviously I am really new to this. I went to the site you recommended, but still couldn’t figure out where to start. It seems that I still need to install nodejs and npm. But I am still at loss as to how to proceed from there. Sorry for the trouble, Niklas. Any pointers would be appreciated!
I think it makes sense for you to share what you already got, e.g. a GitHub project or something else, so that we can have a look. Afterward, please also point out where you are exactly stuck.
So far I installed nodejs and npm. I tried to import bpmn token simulator and bpmnlint, but didn’t know how to do that. The instructions on the web page are difficult to follow for a person who is new to both nodejs and npm. Again, appreciate your kind offer of help, Niklas!
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Thank you for your question Philipp. I think it might be helpful to provide a bit of background of my inquiries. I am teaching an undergraduate course Business Process Management. While I’ve found bpmn.io a very useful tool to develop bpmn diagrams, I would like the tool to be able to check errors made in bpmn diagrams so I don’t need to read through each diagram. Students will receive fast and immediate feedback on their work. In addition, it would be helpful to understand the flow of a complex diagram by using the token simulation feature. Another feature I am hoping to access is process simulation which provides the estimates of cycle time taken to complete a process and identifies bottlenecks. Hope that this helps answer your question, Philipp. Let me know if you have any other questions.
That’s an interesting use case. Depending on what errors you want to detect, you could use bpmnlint. For example, you could detect a task with no outgoing sequence flow. The token simulation is primarily meant to be used to understand how a diagram will be executed. There’s no built-in error detection. You’d detect an error by observing the execution.
The general setup is fairly easy: token-simulation-example - CodeSandbox You just include the token simulation as an additional module when creating the modeler.
