topic Re: JPA variable must pre-exist? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/jpa-variable-must-pre-exist/m-p/44189#M24278 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The entity should already be persisted when activiti want's to use it (activiti has no knowledge of your app, it only uses the entityManeger passed to retreive the entities by ID).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>You should make sure the entities you want to use are persisted, you can do this eg. in an execution-listener on process-start or something simmilar (taskListener, serviceTask, …).</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:32:35 GMT frederikherema1 2011-04-26T08:32:35Z JPA variable must pre-exist? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/jpa-variable-must-pre-exist/m-p/44188#M24277 Hi, I'm just exploring the JPA variable support and have a question on the expected usage. The example test case JPAVariableTest creates all the entities to be manipulated prior to running the process engine. When I pass in a new (unpersisted) entity I receive an ActivitiException with message 'Enti Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:15:29 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/jpa-variable-must-pre-exist/m-p/44188#M24277 tstephen 2011-04-25T11:15:29Z Re: JPA variable must pre-exist? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/jpa-variable-must-pre-exist/m-p/44189#M24278 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The entity should already be persisted when activiti want's to use it (activiti has no knowledge of your app, it only uses the entityManeger passed to retreive the entities by ID).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>You should make sure the entities you want to use are persisted, you can do this eg. in an execution-listener on process-start or something simmilar (taskListener, serviceTask, …).</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:32:35 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/jpa-variable-must-pre-exist/m-p/44189#M24278 frederikherema1 2011-04-26T08:32:35Z