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Retrieve task definition ID with Java API

mano_swerts — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:41:23 GMT

Hi all,We are fiddling with Activiti in Alfresco 4.2.c for an upcoming project. We created a simple workflow with a user task. The user task definition in the Activiti designer and in the XML shows an id with value "verwittigDirectieleden". The description is set to "Verwittig directieleden". The sn

Re: Retrieve task definition ID with Java API

abarisone — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:35:58 GMT

Hi,
you can take a look here http://dev.alfresco.com/resource/docs/java/repository/org/alfresco/service/cmr/workflow/WorkflowService.html for WorkflowService interface.
The method you're looking for might be

getTaskById(java.lang.String taskId)
Gets a Task by unique Id‍‍

Regards,
Andrea

Re: Retrieve task definition ID with Java API

mano_swerts — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:42:00 GMT

Hi Andrea,

As you can read in my post, the problem is not retrieving a task. Retrieving all tasks for a certain person works fine. The problem is that I cannot find the id from the workflow XML (the .bpmn file) in the WorkflowTask object. I would expect that it matches the id in the WorkflowTaskDefinition object, but that does not seem the case. I can see the description from the .bpmn file in the properties Map, but the id from the .bpmn file is nowhere to be found.

I wonder if we are searching in the wrong place or that it is a bug and that the id in the WorkflowTaskDefinition object must match the id in the .bpmn file.

Kind regards,

Mano

Re: Retrieve task definition ID with Java API

mano_swerts — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:58:23 GMT

Appearantly I had to look a little deeper into the WorkflowTaskDefinition class. I can retrieve the XML id with the following code on a WorkflowTask:


task.getDefinition().getNode().getName();
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