topic How to get historic form property names in Alfresco Archive

How to get historic form property names

f_lombardo — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:19:15 GMT

With historyService.createHistoricDetailQuery.taskId(taskId).formProperties().list()I get a list of HistoricFormProperty elements. Using them I can get property id (e.g. "numberOfDays" in the Vacation Request example) and values, but I'm missing property names (e.g. "Number of days").How can I retre

Re: How to get historic form property names

jbarrez — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:38:40 GMT

Sorry, those names are not stored in the database, only the 'ids' are, because those are the one that matter for the engine.

Re: How to get historic form property names

f_lombardo — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:34:39 GMT

😞

Do you think that names will be included in the DB in one of the next releases?

Thanks

Franco

Re: How to get historic form property names

frederikherema1 — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:55:23 GMT

You can always try to extract the property-names from the associated process-definiition's form-definitions…

Re: How to get historic form property names

f_lombardo — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:34:25 GMT

But is there an API call to obtain those definitions for a completed task, or have I to parse the XML definition of the process?

Thanks.

Bye

Franco

Re: How to get historic form property names

jbarrez — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:39:52 GMT

For the moment, you'll have to parse the xml yourself by getting the ReadOnlyProcessDefinition.
Starting from next release, we'll ship with a xml -> java pojo converter

Re: How to get historic form property names

f_lombardo — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:37:57 GMT

OK, thanks.

Bye

Franco