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Integrate activiti with external application

nbklot3 — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:15:57 GMT

Hi,We are trying to implement work flow in one of our existing applications and I'm trying to explore the different possibilities or solutions using activiti. We are planning to create a generic work flow with 2 tasks - one to receive an object with field name and values and user task to provide the

Re: Integrate activiti with external application

nbklot3 — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:18:58 GMT

attached the process file

Re: Integrate activiti with external application

jbarrez — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:27:52 GMT

What exactly are you looking pointers for? Your use case is definitely possible using Activiti.

You object is a plain XML file, so no problems there: just store it as a process variable and manipulate it in your service tasks

Re: Integrate activiti with external application

nbklot3 — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:02:47 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for your reply, I need help in receiving the object/xml in activiti and saving the data from object into activiti. How could this be done? any pointers or sample code for this functionality?
After approval, I can just pull all the variables associated with the task id and getVariables(), then form the xml/object and send it back to external application.

Thanks,
Arun

Re: Integrate activiti with external application

jbarrez — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:19:03 GMT

The easiest is to just set your xml as a process variable (runtimeService.setProcessVariable), before you call your process (eg when you're in a usertask by calling the taskService.complete() method or else the runtimeService.signal() method)

Re: Integrate activiti with external application

nbklot3 — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:11:57 GMT

Thanks for your reply