topic Cloning of a task in Alfresco Archive

Cloning of a task

geekykrish — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 18:34:39 GMT

HI All, I am having a scenario where I want to clone a completed task and create a new task from java. When I try to achieve this from java I am able to set all other parameters other than execution id and process definition id. can some body help out in cloning a completed task from java.Thanks in

Re: Cloning of a task

jbarrez — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:14:51 GMT

You need a TaskListener that listens for the completion event. Create a new task from the data you get in.

Now, the tricky thing is to set the process insance / execution id - how would you want to fit it in your process? It would need sequenflow and all that to work and to make the other logic work.

So i dont know if that's a good idea actually. What is your use case?

Re: Cloning of a task

geekykrish — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:45:21 GMT

My use case in in certain scenario I will enter a parallel flow and at some point if a condition is true in the parallel flow i need to halt the parallel process and proceed the next user task in the flow once the user completes the task then i need to resume the parallel flow from the state in which it is halted.

Re: Cloning of a task

jbarrez — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:01:37 GMT

I re-read your post multiple times, but i couldn't understand it, sorry. Can you please use punctuation in your sentences?

Re: Cloning of a task

nisaxena — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:15:51 GMT

I have kind of same requirement, my use case is (In a particular scenario) when a process will move from 'taskA' to 'taskB'. The task should remain at both the places. I was thinking about either any clone functionality or may be a subTask, but I cannot see anything like that in the API. Can you please guide something?

Re: Cloning of a task

jbarrez — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 18:13:21 GMT

No, that's not possible because it goes against the BPMN 2.0 spec.

What is your use case? I can't see anything directly that would need such functionality in a BPM system.

Re: Cloning of a task

aimingxu — Fri, 08 May 2015 12:12:34 GMT

I have a use case like this: author submit an article to reviewer, the reviewer who was assigned to the task can further assign it to one or many reviewers at runtime to review. I thought that subtask can be created and assigned at runtime but I want subtask to see and do the same as parent task can do such as see attached article and author filled form. So the function is to create a subtask that is a clone of its parent task. Appreciate your help on how to implement this capability.

Re: Cloning of a task

trademak — Wed, 13 May 2015 12:48:57 GMT

You could create a sub task and then in your UI logic gather all info attached to the parent task.

Best regards,

Re: Cloning of a task

aimingxu — Tue, 26 May 2015 18:33:37 GMT

Thanks, Tijs. If UI is not Java based, does Activiti REST API provides the same functionality as Activiti Engine Java API?

Thanks,
Aiming

Re: Cloning of a task

trademak — Thu, 28 May 2015 17:46:06 GMT

Yes, it should provide the same functionality. And if not please raise it with us and we can add the requested functionality to the REST API.

Best regards,