topic Activiti Process vs Form variables. in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-process-vs-form-variables/m-p/309544#M262674 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>At thew end of the day, I need to set some variables that are available throughout the workflow, and I need it once the workflow is over. I think I have horribly confused myself with process and form variables.&nbsp; I have a user task like this: (works fine)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE> <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;userTask id="usertask1" name="Proposed Order"&nbsp; activiti:formKey="jiswf:proposedOrders"&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>However I am setting the vars like this:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; // start workflow with vars<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Map&lt;QName, Serializable&gt; vars = new HashMap&lt;QName, Serializable&gt;();<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; vars.put(QName.createQName(AlfrescoModel.WORKFLOW_NAMESPACE,"toName"), stringArray);<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; … others<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; workflowService.startWorkflow(wfDefinition.getId(), vars);<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>What am I doing here?&nbsp; From the documentation, that looks like I am setting process variables. But when I access the task through the workflow helper like this:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />task.getProperties().get(QName.createQName(AlfrescoModel.WORKFLOW_NAMESPACE,"toName"));<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>That works fine, but should it? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>How do I set variables that are set throughout the workflow, and more importantly, How do&nbsp; I get access to those variables thought the WorkflowService after the workflow is complete?</SPAN><BR /></BODY></HTML> Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:06:03 GMT mangar 2014-03-12T16:06:03Z Activiti Process vs Form variables. https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-process-vs-form-variables/m-p/309544#M262674 At thew end of the day, I need to set some variables that are available throughout the workflow, and I need it once the workflow is over. I think I have horribly confused myself with process and form variables.&nbsp; I have a user task like this: (works fine) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;userTask id="usertask1" name="Prop Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:06:03 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-process-vs-form-variables/m-p/309544#M262674 mangar 2014-03-12T16:06:03Z Re: Activiti Process vs Form variables. https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-process-vs-form-variables/m-p/309545#M262675 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The only thing you need to take care is variables you are setting during start workflow are workflow variables and during getting those variables you are retrieving it from task.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Task variables and workflow variables are different so you could be confused later on.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 13 Mar 2014 04:53:24 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-process-vs-form-variables/m-p/309545#M262675 mitpatoliya 2014-03-13T04:53:24Z