topic cannot update task in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cannot-update-task/m-p/303294#M256424 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I fighted through alfresco javascriot API. My goal is to get all</SPAN><BR /><SPAN> workflow-instances of my custom workflow in the system and update the actual task all of the workflows.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I could fetch the Workflowdefinition -&gt; get the active instances and iterating through them.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I get the JscriptWorkflowPath of the actual instance and get the only task of the workflow </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>(by definition my workflow has only one step)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have a JscriptWorkflowTask object, see the properties of my task and I am happy.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>But when I try to update my task I got an exception below. I could figure out that task.id </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>contains workflowId which is obviously wrong.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>How Can I update my tasks?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Do you have any workaround for my situation?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />function main() {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// get all of taskInstances<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var workflowDef = workflow.getDefinitionByName("nameOfMyWorkflow");<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var activeInstances = workflowDef.getActiveInstances();<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// iterate over the instances<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;for (var index = 0; index &lt; activeInstances.length; index++) {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var workflowInstance = activeInstances[index];<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var workflowId = workflowInstance.id;<BR /><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// get the JscriptWorkflowPath object<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var paths = workflowInstance.paths;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;logger.log('paths: ' + paths );<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var workflowPath = paths[0];<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// get the JscriptWorkflowTask object<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var tasks = workflowPath.tasks;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;logger.log('tasks : ' + tasks );<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var task = tasks[0];<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;logger.log('task : ' + task);<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// here we got the properties of the task<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var prop = task.properties;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;logger.log('prop : ' + prop);<BR /> <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var taskId = task.id;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;prop['{<A href="http://www.alfresco.org/model/bpm/1.0}description" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.alfresco.org/model/bpm/1.0}description</A>'] = "test text";<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;task.setProperties(prop);<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<BR />}<BR />main();<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></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Exception:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />500 Internal Error Stacktrace-Details: org.alfresco.service.cmr.workflow.WorkflowException: <BR />08233626 Failed to update workflow task activiti$start301, the task doesnt exist. An error inside the HTTP server<BR />which prevented it from fulfilling the request. 08230036 Wrapped Exception (with status template): 08233627 <BR />Failed to execute script 'Javascript Console Script': 08233626 Failed to update workflow task activiti$start301, <BR />the task doesnt exist.<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Note: I use </SPAN><A href="https://addons.alfresco.com/addons/javascript-console" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://addons.alfresco.com/addons/javascript-console</A><SPAN> for javascript development on Alfresco Enterprise v4.1.5</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /></BODY></HTML> Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:26:57 GMT mezga 2014-09-23T14:26:57Z cannot update task https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cannot-update-task/m-p/303294#M256424 Hi,I fighted through alfresco javascriot API. My goal is to get all workflow-instances of my custom workflow in the system and update the actual task all of the workflows.I could fetch the Workflowdefinition -&gt; get the active instances and iterating through them.I get the JscriptWorkflowPath of t Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:26:57 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cannot-update-task/m-p/303294#M256424 mezga 2014-09-23T14:26:57Z Re: cannot update task https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cannot-update-task/m-p/303295#M256425 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Any progress?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:28:51 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/cannot-update-task/m-p/303295#M256425 mdavid_cu 2016-07-14T20:28:51Z