topic My usage error retrieving variable ? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/my-usage-error-retrieving-variable/m-p/229062#M182192 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I created an subprocess with multiInstanceLoopCharacteristics as follows:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;subProcess id="sp_preencherPUA" name="Gera PUAs"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;multiInstanceLoopCharacteristics isSequential="false"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;loopDataInputRef&gt;assignees&lt;/loopDataInputRef&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;inputDataItem name="assignee" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/multiInstanceLoopCharacteristics&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;startEvent id="inicioPUA" name="Inicia PUA" /&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;…..<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;endEvent id="fimSp_preencherPUA" name="End" /&gt;<BR />&lt;/subProcess&gt;<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>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>And as the FAQ describes "Each of the executions will have a process variable named assignee".</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>When I try to get it using </SPAN><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>runtimeService.getVariable(processInstanceId, assignee); <SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>, as I use it everywhere on the system, it returns null. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If I change processInstanceId to executionId value, it works !</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I checked the table "ACT_RU_VARIABLE", both process and execution values are there and match with Task instance values.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is it some multi instance limitation ?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 06 Jan 2016 19:45:08 GMT dthknt 2016-01-06T19:45:08Z My usage error retrieving variable ? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/my-usage-error-retrieving-variable/m-p/229062#M182192 I created an subprocess with multiInstanceLoopCharacteristics as follows:&lt;subProcess id="sp_preencherPUA" name="Gera PUAs"&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;multiInstanceLoopCharacteristics isSequential="false"&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;loopDataInputRef&gt;assignees&lt;/loopDataInputRef&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;inputDataItem name="assignee" /&amp;g Wed, 06 Jan 2016 19:45:08 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/my-usage-error-retrieving-variable/m-p/229062#M182192 dthknt 2016-01-06T19:45:08Z Re: My usage error retrieving variable ? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/my-usage-error-retrieving-variable/m-p/229063#M182193 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The variable is indeed stored execution-local. Otherwise you'd have x 'assignee' variables on the process instance level.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:59:47 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/my-usage-error-retrieving-variable/m-p/229063#M182193 jbarrez 2016-01-07T11:59:47Z