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Email Starting process

sandroredi — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:06:51 GMT

Hi, I'm new with Activiti. I'm writing in this forum to understand the best approach to design a process that should stay in waiting state. When an email is received from specific email-addresses the process should start and an elaboration logic block should parse the attachments in the email receiv

Re: Email Starting process

martin_grofcik — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 07:12:36 GMT

Hi Sandro,

I would use message start event (http://www.activiti.org/userguide/#bpmnMessageStartEvent). Your client program could check the e-mails periodically and in the case when email comes it can generate message for activiti.

Regards
Martin

Re: Email Starting process

sandroredi — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 08:37:45 GMT

Hi Martin,
thank you! If I have understood, I should configure the client to forward the email (with attachments) towards Activiti that starts the process when it receives the email. It's right?
Then, should I programmatically, access to the email attachments?

Thank you!
Best regards.

Re: Email Starting process

martin_grofcik — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:59:16 GMT

Hi Sandro.

I am not aware of the client which checks emails and send activiti messages to the activiti engine. There is no problem to implement it.
Message can contain data (e.g. pointers attachments)

regards
Martin

Re: Email Starting process

sandroredi — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 08:48:09 GMT

Thank you Martin!