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Workflow Model Problem

mangar — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 01:32:39 GMT

I am new to the workflows and i am trying to do a simple private message workflow. The start task takes a name and a message. The problem is setting the data. When I iterate through the task variables I get this very weird problem:here it the model: <type name="jiswfrivateMessage">

Re: Workflow Model Problem

kaynezhang — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 04:38:00 GMT

Under normal circumstances,when you put qname varaiable into workflow varaiable ,alfresco will convert qname to bpm varaiable (replace : {} to _ ,for example convert jiswf:toName to jiswf_toName).
So technically all varaiables can be retrieved using underline format.

Re: Workflow Model Problem

kaynezhang — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 04:42:00 GMT

Re: Workflow Model Problem

mangar — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 14:32:49 GMT

I understand that. The problem is that it is NOT doing that for the privateMessage variable. When I do this:

<java>
      String name = (String) task.getVariable("jiswf_toName");
      System.out.println("To Name:"+name);

      String message = (String) task.getVariable("jiswfrivateMessage");
      System.out.println("Message:"+message);
</java>

It works fine, but "jiswf_privateMessage" does not. (I get a null)

Why does toName have an _ and privateMessage has a : ???

Re: Workflow Model Problem

mangar — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 02:54:45 GMT

The problem was that I did not place the formKey="jiswfrivateMessage" in the userTask element in my workflow definition, I placed it in the startEvent

if you look at this thread: <a>http://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/workflow/get-workflow-task-12072013-2115</a> You will see what I did wrong.

So in my opinion, the above code should not have worked at all. Im not going to fill out a bug report, because if you do it right, it works fine. It's just weird that it worked at all.