topic Process variables best practices in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/process-variables-best-practices/m-p/152564#M107201 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi everybody,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've been looking for the way to define list of variables used in a process and came across </SPAN><A href="http://forums.activiti.org/content/explicit-variables-process-definitions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Explicit variables in process definitions</A><SPAN> topic and related </SPAN><A href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-620" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ACT-620</A><SPAN>.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>However, ACT-620 is closed without any reasoning or solution, so I'd like to formulate the question differently: Are there any best practices regarding process variables? Besides the need for "process interface", I need to handle process variables at three or four places within the project: process itself, published process API (e.g. web service for instance creation), JavaDelegate implementations and jUnit tests. Is there a way to define shared process related list of variables?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I thought about a simple Java class/enum (or Spring bean) holding all process instance names. It seems simple, but at least it could help with typo errors, (naming) conventions and prevent duplicate variables … However, I can't use expression in resultVariableName attribute within process definition and that makes my idea unfeasible.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:12:36 GMT hisaak 2013-09-26T10:12:36Z Process variables best practices https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/process-variables-best-practices/m-p/152564#M107201 Hi everybody,I've been looking for the way to define list of variables used in a process and came across Explicit variables in process definitions topic and related ACT-620.However, ACT-620 is closed without any reasoning or solution, so I'd like to formulate the question differently: Are there any Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:12:36 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/process-variables-best-practices/m-p/152564#M107201 hisaak 2013-09-26T10:12:36Z Re: Process variables best practices https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/process-variables-best-practices/m-p/152565#M107202 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>"holding all process instance names" -&gt; "holding all process </SPAN><STRONG>variable</STRONG><SPAN> names"</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:50:45 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/process-variables-best-practices/m-p/152565#M107202 hisaak 2013-09-26T11:50:45Z Re: Process variables best practices https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/process-variables-best-practices/m-p/152566#M107203 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Using an enum is a good idea, and is accessible from expressions, if that is required… Or use some kind of map that is exposed to the expressions in activiti (using processEngineCOnfiguration beans for example, see userguide).</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:40:32 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/process-variables-best-practices/m-p/152566#M107203 frederikherema1 2013-10-02T08:40:32Z