topic Lists of strings or numbers as process variables? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/lists-of-strings-or-numbers-as-process-variables/m-p/82241#M55090 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Newbie here, evaluating the applicability of Activiti for our corporate BPM space.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've been reading the documentation, examples, and Manning book, but am still unclear how a list of values gets stored and manipulated in the process variables.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It appears than anything beyond a trivial single data item (number/string/date) gets serialized and stored as a blob in the database.&nbsp;&nbsp; Is that correct?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If we want to store, for example, a list of product numbers associated with a process instance, and maybe a list of affected customers IDs, is the only way to store these as process variables going to be as blobs (serialized bytearrays)?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This seems like it would complicate the data model to the extent that reporting/debugging the schema would be a nightmare.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Am I overlooking something?&nbsp;&nbsp; I know this is not an easy problem to solve, but I can't quite picture how any non-trivial use of Activiti would be able to avoid collection-type process variables.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Feel free to just point me to someplace in the docs if I've just failed to RT the right FM.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /></SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:17:38 GMT k-minor 2012-09-18T15:17:38Z Lists of strings or numbers as process variables? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/lists-of-strings-or-numbers-as-process-variables/m-p/82241#M55090 Newbie here, evaluating the applicability of Activiti for our corporate BPM space.I've been reading the documentation, examples, and Manning book, but am still unclear how a list of values gets stored and manipulated in the process variables.It appears than anything beyond a trivial single data item Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:17:38 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/lists-of-strings-or-numbers-as-process-variables/m-p/82241#M55090 k-minor 2012-09-18T15:17:38Z Re: Lists of strings or numbers as process variables? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/lists-of-strings-or-numbers-as-process-variables/m-p/82242#M55091 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Why not use your own datamodel and store references in the database, e.g. entities</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:43:20 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/lists-of-strings-or-numbers-as-process-variables/m-p/82242#M55091 ronald_van_kuij 2012-09-18T19:43:20Z Re: Lists of strings or numbers as process variables? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/lists-of-strings-or-numbers-as-process-variables/m-p/82243#M55092 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks for the response . . . </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Would I be able to reference those external entity values from within the process definition?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Do you know if any of the examples in the distribution include this type of usage?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:01:49 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/lists-of-strings-or-numbers-as-process-variables/m-p/82243#M55092 k-minor 2012-09-18T20:01:49Z Re: Lists of strings or numbers as process variables? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/lists-of-strings-or-numbers-as-process-variables/m-p/82244#M55093 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>yes, serializable pojo's are supported, including using them in expression eg 'pojo.blah'</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:34:15 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/lists-of-strings-or-numbers-as-process-variables/m-p/82244#M55093 jbarrez 2012-09-19T08:34:15Z