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Using same business key for multiple times

c_arunrathnakum — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:52:26 GMT

Hi all,I m using activiti 5.11.I m in a situation that I have to use the same business key for multiple processes such that only one of the process is active at a time.The scenario is that, I pass the order id that is generated in my application to activiti's business key. The order management compl

Re: Using same business key for multiple times

trademak — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:19:00 GMT

Hi Arun,

Since 5.15.1 the business key is not unique anymore, so that would cover your use case.
For Activiti 5.11 it must be unique.

Best regards,

Re: Using same business key for multiple times

c_arunrathnakum — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:21:07 GMT

Hi Tijs,

I cant migrate the version as this is in production.. Any alternative way?

Re: Using same business key for multiple times

trademak — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 11:08:34 GMT

Hi Arun,

I can understand it's not easy to migrate to the latest Activiti version. But with Activiti 5.11 there's a database constraint to prevent duplicate business keys and the API is also expecting one process instance for a business key. But a hack would be to remove the database constraint.

Best regards,