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Access to expressionManager from EngineServices?

tstephen — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:15:13 GMT

Hi, Since the mail service task has the body of the mail injected as fields (named html and text) it is not possible to modify that body elsewhere in the process. There are several use cases for this including: using a template stored externally in an ECM ; and using different templates for differen

Re: Access to expressionManager from EngineServices?

frederikherema1 — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 08:05:45 GMT

The EngineServices exposes only public-facing API's. Expression-resolving is an internal thing (also uses a lot of org.activiti.*.impl.* classes), we don't want to expose this for the moment. Casting to a processEngineConfigurationImpl is fine, you can alternatively use Context.getProcessEngineConfiguration() (org.activiti.engine.impl.context.Context) - this is also an internal class, but at least you don't have to cast it. Be sure to ONLY use the org.activiti.engine.impl.context.Context class, when in the right context (so everywhere you get an EngineServices passed in is fine).

Re: Access to expressionManager from EngineServices?

tstephen — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:04:51 GMT

Cheers Frederik, I used the Context.getProcessEngineConfiguration as suggested and submitted a pull request: https://github.com/Activiti/Activiti/pull/205

Re: Access to expressionManager from EngineServices?

psc1952 — Mon, 02 May 2016 15:01:48 GMT

How are the 'htmlVar' and/or 'textVar' variables assigned in the designer?