topic How to send workflow/task property values to serviceTask activiti:type='shell' in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-send-workflow-task-property-values-to-servicetask/m-p/296915#M250045 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have serviceTask activiti:type="shell" and I need to pass some parameter values to my script, </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>How to get access or send these values inside my bpmn ?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>- workflow description ? </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- task id and/or&nbsp; workflow id ?&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I already tried:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>execution.setVariable('putwf_wfName', bpm_workflowDescription);<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>error: org.alfresco.scripts.ScriptException: 07170037 Failed to execute supplied script: 07170036 ReferenceError: "bpm_workflowDescription" is not defined. (AlfrescoJS#2)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>execution.setVariable('putwf_wfName', taskInstance.id);<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>error: "org.alfresco.scripts.ScriptException: 07170035 Failed to execute supplied script: 07170034 ReferenceError: "taskInstance" is not defined. (AlfrescoJS#3)"</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Please help,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR /><BR />&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;<BR />&lt;definitions xmlns="<A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/MODEL</A>" xmlns:xsi="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance</A>" xmlns:xsd="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</A>" xmlns:activiti="<A href="http://activiti.org/bpmn" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://activiti.org/bpmn</A>" xmlns:bpmndi="<A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/20100524/DI</A>" xmlns:omgdc="<A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DC</A>" xmlns:omgdi="<A href="http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.omg.org/spec/DD/20100524/DI</A>" typeLanguage="<A href="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema</A>" expressionLanguage="<A href="http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.w3.org/1999/XPath</A>" targetNamespace="<A href="http://www.activiti.org/test" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.activiti.org/test</A>"&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;process id="echoShellLinux" isExecutable="true"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;startEvent id="theStart"&gt;&lt;/startEvent&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="flow-mystart" sourceRef="theStart" targetRef="shellEcho"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;extensionElements&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:executionListener event="start" class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.activiti.listener.ScriptExecutionListener"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;variable name="bpm_workflowDescription" access="read" /&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;&nbsp;&lt;![CDATA[logger.log("Here we are !!!");]]&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;execution.setVariable('wf_dt', 'MyParam1');<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;execution.setVariable('putwf_wfName', bpm_workflowDescription);<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; &lt;/activiti:field&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/activiti:executionListener&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/extensionElements&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;serviceTask id="shellEcho" activiti:type="shell"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;extensionElements&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:field name="command"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:string&gt;&lt;![CDATA[/home/ultra/alfresco/projects/logme.sh]]&gt;&lt;/activiti:string&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/activiti:field&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:field name="arg1"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:expression&gt;${wf_dt}&lt;/activiti:expression&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/activiti:field&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:field name="arg2"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:expression&gt;${putwf_wfName}&lt;/activiti:expression&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/activiti:field&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:field name="outputVariable"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;activiti:string&gt;&lt;![CDATA[resultVar]]&gt;&lt;/activiti:string&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/activiti:field&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/extensionElements&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/serviceTask&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="sequenceFlow-92315e42-3ba1-480e-8788-c57ca217bbe2" sourceRef="shellEcho" targetRef="theTask"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;userTask id="theTask" name="keep-alive task"&gt;&lt;/userTask&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;sequenceFlow id="sequenceFlow-4ab2aa0a-f004-4296-8ead-58d2f0438c25" sourceRef="theTask" targetRef="theEnd"&gt;&lt;/sequenceFlow&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;endEvent id="theEnd"&gt;&lt;/endEvent&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/process&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;bpmndi:BPMNDiagram id="BPMNDiagram_echoShellLinux"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bpmndi:BPMNPlane bpmnElement="echoShellLinux" id="BPMNPlane_echoShellLinux"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="theStart" id="BPMNShape_theStart"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdc:Bounds height="35.0" width="35.0" x="70.0" y="140.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdc:Bounds&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bpmndi:BPMNShape&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="shellEcho" id="BPMNShape_shellEcho"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdc:Bounds height="60.0" width="100.0" x="80.0" y="0.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdc:Bounds&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bpmndi:BPMNShape&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="theTask" id="BPMNShape_theTask"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdc:Bounds height="60.0" width="100.0" x="230.0" y="0.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdc:Bounds&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bpmndi:BPMNShape&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bpmndi:BPMNShape bpmnElement="theEnd" id="BPMNShape_theEnd"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdc:Bounds height="35.0" width="35.0" x="295.0" y="150.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdc:Bounds&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bpmndi:BPMNShape&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="flow-mystart" id="BPMNEdge_flow-mystart"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdi:waypoint x="87.0" y="140.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdi:waypoint&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdi:waypoint x="42.0" y="30.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdi:waypoint&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdi:waypoint x="42.0" y="30.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdi:waypoint&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdi:waypoint x="80.0" y="30.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdi:waypoint&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bpmndi:BPMNEdge&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="sequenceFlow-92315e42-3ba1-480e-8788-c57ca217bbe2" id="BPMNEdge_sequenceFlow-92315e42-3ba1-480e-8788-c57ca217bbe2"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdi:waypoint x="180.0" y="30.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdi:waypoint&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdi:waypoint x="192.0" y="30.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdi:waypoint&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdi:waypoint x="192.0" y="30.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdi:waypoint&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdi:waypoint x="230.0" y="30.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdi:waypoint&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bpmndi:BPMNEdge&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;bpmndi:BPMNEdge bpmnElement="sequenceFlow-4ab2aa0a-f004-4296-8ead-58d2f0438c25" id="BPMNEdge_sequenceFlow-4ab2aa0a-f004-4296-8ead-58d2f0438c25"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdi:waypoint x="330.0" y="30.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdi:waypoint&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdi:waypoint x="342.0" y="30.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdi:waypoint&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdi:waypoint x="342.0" y="30.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdi:waypoint&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;omgdi:waypoint x="312.0" y="150.0"&gt;&lt;/omgdi:waypoint&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bpmndi:BPMNEdge&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/bpmndi:BPMNPlane&gt;<BR />&nbsp; &lt;/bpmndi:BPMNDiagram&gt;<BR />&lt;/definitions&gt;<BR /><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>‍</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><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>‍</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><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>‍</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><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE></BODY></HTML> Mon, 17 Aug 2015 11:58:17 GMT ante_blaskovic 2015-08-17T11:58:17Z How to send workflow/task property values to serviceTask activiti:type='shell' https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-send-workflow-task-property-values-to-servicetask/m-p/296915#M250045 I have serviceTask activiti:type="shell" and I need to pass some parameter values to my script, How to get access or send these values inside my bpmn ?- workflow description ? - task id and/or&nbsp; workflow id ?&nbsp; I already tried:execution.setVariable('putwf_wfName', bpm_workflowDescription);‍error: org. Mon, 17 Aug 2015 11:58:17 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-send-workflow-task-property-values-to-servicetask/m-p/296915#M250045 ante_blaskovic 2015-08-17T11:58:17Z Re: How to send workflow/task property values to serviceTask activiti:type='shell' https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-send-workflow-task-property-values-to-servicetask/m-p/296916#M250046 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>After finding more info here: </SPAN><A href="http://docs.alfresco.com/community/references/API-JS-WorkflowService.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://docs.alfresco.com/community/references/API-JS-WorkflowService.html</A><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I see now that workflow manager exists: workflow&nbsp; (</SPAN><A href="http://docs.alfresco.com/community/references/API-JS-WorkflowManager.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://docs.alfresco.com/community/references/API-JS-WorkflowManager.html</A><SPAN>) and it can be accessed as "workflow" from Javascript. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>for example:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;![CDATA[logger.log(workflow);]]&gt; <BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>I need workflow instance id and current workflow node so I can send those values to my external shell script. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Kind Regards,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Ante</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>p.s: I do not see any other exposed objects beside workflow</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Aug 2015 08:21:49 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-send-workflow-task-property-values-to-servicetask/m-p/296916#M250046 ante_blaskovic 2015-08-18T08:21:49Z