# Design Your Parallel Node

Designing a Parallel node includes the following tasks:

- To Define a Join Condition
- To Add Logic to the Branches in Your Decision Node

To Define a Join Condition

A Parallel node is, in effect, a group of nodes. You can set the properties for a group of nodes using the Property Editor.

1. View the properties of your Parallel node by clicking the outline of the group to select it, then view the group properties in the Property Editor.

Note: If the Property Editor is not visible in the Design View, choose View —> Property Editor from the WebLogic Workshop menu.

2. To change the value of the Join Condition from AND (the default) to OR, in the Property Editor, select OR from the drop-down menu associated with Join Condition. The node in your business process will be updated with a to indicate the OR condition.

To learn how the Join Condition affects the flow of execution in a Parallel node, see Understanding Parallel Execution in Your Business Process.

3. To change the name of the node or any of its branches, in the Property Editor, click the name attribute in the node or branch names, then enter the new name.

To Add Logic to the Branches in Your Decision Node

For each branch in your Parallel node:

1. In the Palette, click a Process Node that represents the type of logic you want to add to the business process.
2. Drag and drop the node from the Palette onto the appropriate branch.

3. Complete the design of the nodes added on each branch. In this way, you create the activities appropriate for the business logic defined by your business process.

Note: You can create nested Parallel nodes in your business process by dragging a Parallel node from the Palette on to one of the branches in a Parallel node already created in the Design View.

1. To save your work, select File —> Save.

Related Topics

Create a Parallel Node in Your Business Process

Grouping Nodes in Your Business Process

Handling Exceptions

Business Process Source Code

Adding Message Paths

Adding Timeout Paths