topic How to retrieve active process instances in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-retrieve-active-process-instances/m-p/101620#M70582 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I was wondering how I could get a list of all processInstances that are alive on a runtime service. With alive I mean all instances, including instances in wait state and currently processing something.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>As I understand, as soon as a processInstance hits a wait state, e.g. user task, the entire process isntance is persisted into a database able?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>"At such a wait state, the current state of the process instance is stored in the database."</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://www.activiti.org/userguide/index.html#bpmnFirstExamplStartProcess" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.activiti.org/userguide/index.html#bpmnFirstExamplStartProcess</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is that the ACT_HI_PROCINST table?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If so, then there are some processInstances in a database table, which I could query, and some are not (only alive somewhere in runtime environment). </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>What would be your approach to retrieve those instances?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Also, how can I force a processInstance to persist itself upon process start? Basically when it enters the start node?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Not only for this task, but also in case the process engine crashs and I have to restore all instances.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Cheers and kind regards,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Tobi</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:21:09 GMT tobiasw_ 2012-03-12T22:21:09Z How to retrieve active process instances https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-retrieve-active-process-instances/m-p/101620#M70582 Hi,I was wondering how I could get a list of all processInstances that are alive on a runtime service. With alive I mean all instances, including instances in wait state and currently processing something.As I understand, as soon as a processInstance hits a wait state, e.g. user task, the entire pro Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:21:09 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-retrieve-active-process-instances/m-p/101620#M70582 tobiasw_ 2012-03-12T22:21:09Z Re: How to retrieve active process instances https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-retrieve-active-process-instances/m-p/101621#M70583 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Yes if you hit a wait state the state is persisted.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>If you want every process instance to persist itself immediately it's a good idea to add an async task right after the start event. This can even be a dummy manual task.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best regards,</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:32:46 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-retrieve-active-process-instances/m-p/101621#M70583 trademak 2012-03-13T12:32:46Z