topic How to annotate process steps with further information in Alfresco Archive

How to annotate process steps with further information

d00d — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:25:27 GMT

I'd like to add some information to my process steps that i want to retrieve programmatically during the execution of the process (e. g. typical execution time thresholds, name of the responsible persons etc). BPMN 2.0 offers the annotation artifact but based on what i've learned so far, activiti is

Re: How to annotate process steps with further information

jbarrez — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 12:21:54 GMT

- Any bpmn element should support 'documentation' tag. You can get it through the BpmnModel.
- Any bpmn element supports 'extensionElement', which is also parsed and retrieveable through the BpmnModel.

Re: How to annotate process steps with further information

d00d — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:44:31 GMT

Thank you for your reply. I have one task with two attributes:

<code>
<userTask id="usertask1" name="Process A">
    <extensionElements>
     <activiti:field name="attribute a" stringValue="300"/>
     <activiti:field name="attribute b" stringValue="300"/>
    </extensionElements>
    </userTask></code>

While i can easily retrieve the extensionElements of a process through the BpmnModel but i don't see any method to retrieve the extensionElements of the tasks…

Re: How to annotate process steps with further information

jbarrez — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:30:26 GMT

a UserTask is a BaseElement, which has a method getExtensionElements(). Find that usertask in the process and there you go