topic cancel a process outside of the process in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cancel-a-process-outside-of-the-process/m-p/206419#M159549 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I'm running Seam 2 and Activiti 5.18</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I need to create and execute a long asynchonous workflow, during the process, the user should be able to cancel the execution of the workflow (from a JSF page, outside scope of the process)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Whenn the process is running, I tried to call the suspendProcessInstanceById and deleteProcessInstance methods of RuntimeService but they have no incidence on the current runing worflow, I mean the processinstance END_DATE is correctly flagged in the db but the process continue.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Here is the code</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-java line-numbers"><CODE><BR />processEngine = seamConfiguredProcessEngine.getProcessEngine();<BR />RuntimeService runtimeService = processEngine.getRuntimeService();<BR />pack.setStatus("Cancelled");<BR />packageDao.merge(pack);<BR />runtimeService.setVariable(pack.getJbpmProcessId(), "pack", pack);<BR />runtimeService.suspendProcessInstanceById(pack.getJbpmProcessId());<BR />runtimeService.deleteProcessInstance(pack.getJbpmProcessId(), "deleteReason");<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>As the process continue, I changed the nodes of the workflow to first get the pack object, check the status and execute my code only if the status is not "Cancelled"</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I guess the process keep the variable in cache, because the object I load from the context do not contain the status Cancelled I set previously, and even if I reload the entity using the entityManager (I can see the updated value in the db througt phpMyAdmin).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>How can I stop a process or change the values of the entities of a running process when i am outside of this async process?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 02 Nov 2015 12:08:13 GMT supreme06 2015-11-02T12:08:13Z cancel a process outside of the process https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cancel-a-process-outside-of-the-process/m-p/206419#M159549 Hello,I'm running Seam 2 and Activiti 5.18I need to create and execute a long asynchonous workflow, during the process, the user should be able to cancel the execution of the workflow (from a JSF page, outside scope of the process)Whenn the process is running, I tried to call the suspendProcessInsta Mon, 02 Nov 2015 12:08:13 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cancel-a-process-outside-of-the-process/m-p/206419#M159549 supreme06 2015-11-02T12:08:13Z Re: cancel a process outside of the process https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cancel-a-process-outside-of-the-process/m-p/206420#M159550 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">How can I stop a process</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><CODE><BR />org.activiti.engine.test.api.runtime.RuntimeServiceTest#testDeleteProcessInstance<BR /></CODE><BR /><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">change the values of the entities of a running process when i am outside of this async process?</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><CODE>org.activiti.engine.test.api.runtime.RuntimeServiceTest#testSetVariables</CODE><BR /><SPAN>In activiti source.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Martin</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Nov 2015 08:55:33 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cancel-a-process-outside-of-the-process/m-p/206420#M159550 martin_grofcik 2015-11-03T08:55:33Z