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Fetch parent instance id using subprocess instance

steff1 — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:01:05 GMT

Hi thereI would like to get the id of the parent process instance. Is it always sufficient to make the following calls based on the ProcessInstance of the subprocess?subProcessProcessInstance.getSuperExecution().getProcessInstanceId()‍I'm just wondering if there is any case where this is not suffici

Re: Fetch parent instance id using subprocess instance

jbarrez — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:17:57 GMT

In case you have more nested subprocesses, you have to be careful. Otherwise it alwyas gives you the id of the execution from which the sub process instance was spawned.

Re: Fetch parent instance id using subprocess instance

steff1 — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:45:22 GMT

Thanks for the reply!

Which cases do you mean could fail?

I already tried a two level sub process hierarchy (parent calls subProcess, subProcess calls subSubProcess). There I'm able to went up the hierarchy with the mentioned expression.

Cheers,
Stefan

Re: Fetch parent instance id using subprocess instance

jbarrez — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:30:11 GMT

I'm thinking a more complex combination with multi instances, concurrencies and everything else that might go wrong 😉