topic How to return an object or value from the process in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-return-an-object-or-value-from-the-process/m-p/110418#M77576 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am new to Activiti. I am using Activiti5.9 and trying out with some simple use cases.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I am trying to perform service orchestration flow with two webservices and some conditional logic.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>My aim is to collate both the webservice xml responses into one and return back from this process.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Calling the webservices and collating the xml is working fine.&nbsp; But how to return the response xml back to the client?&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I tried populating one process variable from my collation java task and trying to access it from my processController class(which starts the process).&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>For this, I am using RunTimeService's getVariable method by passing executionId and variable name.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>But by the time i come to this statement, Process execution is completed and it is not able to resolve that particular processId from *_RE_* tables.&nbsp; This is causing ActivitiException.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What is the best solution or practice for these kind of scenarios.&nbsp; How to return a String/Object from my process to my controller class?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:20:41 GMT purna_cherukuri 2012-03-20T12:20:41Z How to return an object or value from the process https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-return-an-object-or-value-from-the-process/m-p/110418#M77576 Hi,I am new to Activiti. I am using Activiti5.9 and trying out with some simple use cases.&nbsp; I am trying to perform service orchestration flow with two webservices and some conditional logic.&nbsp; My aim is to collate both the webservice xml responses into one and return back from this process.&nbsp; Calling Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:20:41 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-return-an-object-or-value-from-the-process/m-p/110418#M77576 purna_cherukuri 2012-03-20T12:20:41Z Re: How to return an object or value from the process https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-return-an-object-or-value-from-the-process/m-p/110419#M77577 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I think your approach is okay, but you'll have to use the HistoryService to retrieve process variables from completed process instances instead.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best regards,</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:19:19 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-return-an-object-or-value-from-the-process/m-p/110419#M77577 trademak 2012-03-20T14:19:19Z