topic Repeat prior process steps in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/repeat-prior-process-steps/m-p/108068#M75737 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello everybody, </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>we are currently trying to solve a problem, that seems to be some kind of tricky. Probably someone here ran into the same situation and can give me a hint what to do…</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We have a service-task, calling a remote system to execute some write-operation asynchronously. After that service-task, we enter a "Receive-Task", that waits for a Callback of the remote system. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Last night we ran into a situation, where the remote system accepted our request, but then lost the operation. So, currently we are waiting for a Callback of an operation that was never executed… </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is there any best practice for a situation like this? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>We were trying to set the </SPAN><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>act_id_<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN> in </SPAN><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>act_ru_execution<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN> table to the prior step and then trigger the execution manually, but this caused some internal errors like NullPointerExceptions in ExecutionEntity.ensureProcessDefinitionInitialized() -&nbsp; so we seem to miss something here <img id="smileywink" class="emoticon emoticon-smileywink" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.png" alt="Smiley Wink" title="Smiley Wink" /></SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any ideas for that kind of problems?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance and best regards</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Christoph</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:28:32 GMT choeller 2012-09-04T13:28:32Z Repeat prior process steps https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/repeat-prior-process-steps/m-p/108068#M75737 Hello everybody, we are currently trying to solve a problem, that seems to be some kind of tricky. Probably someone here ran into the same situation and can give me a hint what to do…We have a service-task, calling a remote system to execute some write-operation asynchronously. After that service-ta Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:28:32 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/repeat-prior-process-steps/m-p/108068#M75737 choeller 2012-09-04T13:28:32Z Re: Repeat prior process steps https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/repeat-prior-process-steps/m-p/108069#M75738 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Why not create an administrative application (or screen in your app) that allows the administrator to signal a process? That admin-module could just allow easy process-lookup and have a button "Force continue" that just calls runtimeService.signal().</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Messing in the database is NOT a good idea!!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:41:47 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/repeat-prior-process-steps/m-p/108069#M75738 frederikherema1 2012-09-27T14:41:47Z