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Process variables for timer-started process

hyapit — Wed, 29 May 2013 22:24:49 GMT

Hello,I need to pass in process variables map into a process that is kick-started by a start-timer event. The process seems to be started as soon I deploy my DeploymentEntity ( as noted in the document ), that I don't get a chance to pass in my params via RuntimeService.startProcessInstanceByKey(key

Re: Process variables for timer-started process

hyapit — Wed, 29 May 2013 22:25:42 GMT

I tried doing RuntimeService.startProcessInstanceByKey() as soon as the process definition is deployed, but that didn't seem to do anything.

Re: Process variables for timer-started process

hyapit — Wed, 29 May 2013 23:32:27 GMT

The reason I wasn't able to start the process as described above was because I had

.activateProcessDefinitionsOn( some_later_time ) when I define my Deployment object.

You can't start suspended process defition. Doh! I still would like to see more hooks to pass in process variables though.

Re: Process variables for timer-started process

jbarrez — Fri, 31 May 2013 11:58:56 GMT

You typically don't want to provide variables when using a timer start event. If you need some data in your process, you can simply attach an execution listener that adds those variables.