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Restart Process instance at the point when an exception occurs.

mahajanankur — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 08:11:42 GMT

Hi,I've a process with multiple service tasks. The process instance terminates once an exception occurs in any service task. The task information has been stored in "act_hi_actinst" till that point(task where exception occurs). Is there any way to restart this instance at the point where exception o

Re: Restart Process instance at the point when an exception occurs.

martin_grofcik — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 09:49:12 GMT

Hi Ankur,

http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#bpmnConcurrencyAndTransactions
-> use e.g. async execution.

Regards
Martin

Re: Restart Process instance at the point when an exception occurs.

warper — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 10:45:26 GMT

Hi Ankur!
If your service tasks are asynchronous, failure for one of them will create job for failed service retries.
You can find process instance & job, fix variables in database, and then start this job.
Manual job (re)start can be done in process explorer web interface.

Re: Restart Process instance at the point when an exception occurs.

mahajanankur — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 10:18:44 GMT

@Warper, Thank you very much for this great answer. You saved my day. \m/