topic How to code and start a Process in Alfresco Archive

How to code and start a Process

zlatan316 — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 17:33:39 GMT

Hello,I am trying to write some code which can start a particular process and make it appear under My Instances. Currently I have some code which can iterate through a list of names and allow the process to load a CallActivity which has its own underlying process. However each of these do not appear

Re: How to code and start a Process

frederikherema1 — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:26:00 GMT

The 'my instances' page, is based on the 'START_USER_ID_' field in the historic process instance. When starting a normal process, this is retrieved from the AuthenticationUtil. In your code, can you check what the value of AuthenticationUtil.getCurrentUser() is, right befiore the call activity is executed? Chances are, that you're not setting AuthenticationUtil.setCurrentUser() before the actual API-call that causes the sub process to be spawned…

Re: How to code and start a Process

zlatan316 — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 14:56:58 GMT

Thanks frederik that led me on the right path

I actually had to use <code>Authentication.setAuthenticatedUserId("InsetLoggedInNameHere");</code> in order to get them to appear under my login.

Re: How to code and start a Process

frederikherema1 — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 08:11:20 GMT

Great, glad it's working out for you!