topic Saving Form Properties and variables when starting a process in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/saving-form-properties-and-variables-when-starting-a-process/m-p/181110#M134240 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I want to save 'form properties' and 'variables' together when starting a process. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The first task after 'start event' is a script task, that uses a variable that is saved in starting the process.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I found two possible (not working) solutions:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>1- Starting process with RuntimeService.startProcessInstanceById (with variables), then saving form properties with FormService.saveFormData: It's not possible, we have only FormService.saveFormData for tasks, not processInstances.</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-java line-numbers"><CODE><BR />ProcessInstance startProcessInstanceById(String processDefinitionId, String businessKey, Map&lt;String, Object&gt; variables) ;<BR />void saveFormData(String taskId, Map&lt;String, String&gt; properties);<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>2- Submitting form properties with FormService.submitStartFormData, then saving variables with RuntimeService.setVariables: It's not possible, FormService.submitStartFormData has no 'variables' argument. So it starts process without saving variables (and the script task will throw an exception).</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-java line-numbers"><CODE><BR />ProcessInstance submitStartFormData(String processDefinitionId, String businessKey, Map&lt;String, String&gt; properties);<BR />void setVariables(String executionId, Map&lt;String, ? extends Object&gt; variables);<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What should i do?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:30:29 GMT mf 2014-11-10T12:30:29Z Saving Form Properties and variables when starting a process https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/saving-form-properties-and-variables-when-starting-a-process/m-p/181110#M134240 Hi,I want to save 'form properties' and 'variables' together when starting a process. The first task after 'start event' is a script task, that uses a variable that is saved in starting the process.I found two possible (not working) solutions:1- Starting process with RuntimeService.startProcessInsta Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:30:29 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/saving-form-properties-and-variables-when-starting-a-process/m-p/181110#M134240 mf 2014-11-10T12:30:29Z Re: Saving Form Properties and variables when starting a process https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/saving-form-properties-and-variables-when-starting-a-process/m-p/181111#M134241 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Form properties are variables, they are stored as variables after submitting them. Why would you want to separate these two out?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Nov 2014 19:20:42 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/saving-form-properties-and-variables-when-starting-a-process/m-p/181111#M134241 jbarrez 2014-11-18T19:20:42Z