topic Execution variable data type in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/execution-variable-data-type/m-p/252837#M205967 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm developing a complex workflow using Activiti engine. And I'm struggling with execution variables in the Javascript task listener scripts. I could not find what data types execution.setVariable function accepts, but it seems that it accepts only String data types.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a workflow where in one of the middle steps I get multiple assignees, for the next multi instance User Task. I want to store them as an Execution variable, because they will be needed in following tasks. But following code throws an error: </SPAN><BR /><BR /><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">java.lang.ClassCastException: org.alfresco.repo.workflow.activiti.ActivitiScriptNode cannot be cast to java.lang.String</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;userTask id="p_1_3" name="…" activiti:assignee="${wf_responsible}" activiti:formKey="wf:assignCreateResponseTask"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;extensionElements&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:taskListener event="create" class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.activiti.tasklistener.ScriptTaskListener"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:taskListener event="complete" class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.activiti.tasklistener.ScriptTaskListener"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:field name="script"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:string&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; execution.setVariable('wf_assignees', task.getVariable('wf_assignees'));<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>If I put their usernames in an array and join them with commas, later split them for multi instance loop user task. Another error is thrown, that activiti:collection requires data type Collection. And I found no way to cast javascript native array to Collection data type.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>How can I store multiple assignees in a execution variable? </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Does this question relate more to Alfresco or Activiti?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:20:00 GMT jurgisl 2012-11-26T08:20:00Z Execution variable data type https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/execution-variable-data-type/m-p/252837#M205967 Hi,I'm developing a complex workflow using Activiti engine. And I'm struggling with execution variables in the Javascript task listener scripts. I could not find what data types execution.setVariable function accepts, but it seems that it accepts only String data types.I have a workflow where in one Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:20:00 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/execution-variable-data-type/m-p/252837#M205967 jurgisl 2012-11-26T08:20:00Z Re: Execution variable data type https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/execution-variable-data-type/m-p/252838#M205968 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Ok, got it working. All that was needed was to call the .toString() function, like:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>execution.setVariable('wf_assignees', task.getVariable('wf_assignees').toString());<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>Strange, that it throws an error, complaining that it cannot cast this value to a String, but the object has a standard function to do so. Maybe there are again some Java to Javascript data type mismatches.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:31:12 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/execution-variable-data-type/m-p/252838#M205968 jurgisl 2012-11-28T08:31:12Z