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Activity Name of the current Activity

zobbl — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:57:33 GMT

Hi there,currently I'm displaying the current task and all the completed tasks from the running instancethe historyService gives me access to all completed tasks from the given instance. There I can access the activities Name, which is defined in the ProcessDefinition.But for the current task I have

Re: Activity Name of the current Activity

jbarrez — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:01:26 GMT

When you query for tasks, you get a org.activiti.engine.task.Task object back, which has a name attribute you can access.

Re: Activity Name of the current Activity

zobbl — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:58:37 GMT

Thanks for your reply, but it doesn't seem to work.

The description of Task implies, that only usertasks can be queried. But I have only Script Tasks (User Tasks are likely to be added in the future, but not for now).

Or I'm doing something wrong.

I tried
taskService.createTaskQuery().processDefinitionName(processName).list()
and

taskService.createTaskQuery().processInstanceId(currentInstance.id).list()
All I get is an empty list. So the passed values instanceId and procDefinitionName are right and the query was executed as intended.

Another, maybe important, information is, that all my tasks are asynchronous, as I'm using Grails and want the page to load and display all the information on the fly

Re: Activity Name of the current Activity

jbarrez — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:41:59 GMT

Ok, my mistake: I thought you were talking about user tasks.

There is no way of getting the name of a script task.
There is however a workaround, by casting the RepositoryService to the RepositoryServiceImpl you can access a method that allows to inspect the ProcessDefinition and its activities programmatically. That should dp the trick, I believe.

Re: Activity Name of the current Activity

zobbl — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:45:34 GMT

Alright thanks

Is it planned for the future, that all types of tasks can be queried for their name?