topic Re: Change process name in Alfresco Archive

Change process name

mario_fliegner — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:50:04 GMT

Hi there,I'm searching for a solution to accomplish the following requirement: Each time a process is launched, its name will created out of the name of the process definition concatenated by the current date, like: "My Approval Process - May 18th 2016".I'm looking for a possibility to influence tha

Re: Change process name

messmeister — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 09:58:41 GMT

I need to know that as well. Also if there is a change to change the name while the process is running.

Re: Change process name

martin_grofcik — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 06:04:01 GMT

Hi All,

use


  /**
   * Sets the name for the process instance with the given id.
   * 
   * @param processInstanceId
   *          id of the process instance to update
   * @param name
   *          new name for the process instance
   * @throws ActivitiObjectNotFoundException
   *           when the given process instance does not exist.
   */
  void setProcessInstanceName(String processInstanceId, String name);

Regards
Martin

Re: Change process name

mario_fliegner — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:06:54 GMT

Thanks for pointing out!
Do you also know what's the best hookup point to change the process name? At least an event listener or an execution listener is already to late in the process. Should I use the process engine configuration (com.activiti.api.engine.ProcessEngineConfigurationConfigurer) instead?

Thanks!

Re: Change process name

martin_grofcik — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:44:02 GMT

Hi,

I would use businessKey instead. Start the process with the businessKey.

Regards
Martin