Split N Property Reference

Determines the number of copies that can flow simultaneously within the circuit. At runtime any number of copies above this maximum will be queued and later released when one of the already flowing copies reaches the Join activity or is aborted.

For example, if you set the maximum number of copies to 10, and then the PBL generates 100, the last 90 will be queued until a copy arrives at the Join activity or is aborted. When this happens, one of the 90 copies will be released. A use case on when to define limits is if your process needs to upload 100 files and has only 5 connections available. Therefore, each file to upload is a copy (100 instance copies are generated) but the number of simultaneous uploads is limited to the number of connections, so the Maximum number of simultaneous copies is set to 5.