topic Activiti 5.11 - unable to create a process attachment in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-5-11-unable-to-create-a-process-attachment/m-p/130604#M91776 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Up to Activiti 5.10 it has been possible to add an attachment to a process instance using:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&nbsp; /** Add a new attachment to a task and/or a process instance and use an input stream to provide the content */<BR />&nbsp; Attachment createAttachment(String attachmentType, String taskId, String processInstanceId, String attachmentName, String attachmentDescription, InputStream content);<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>In case you wanted the content attached to the process instance only you have been able to </SPAN><SPAN style="color:#0000FF;">set the taskId to null</SPAN><SPAN>. Hence there has been an attachment assiociated with the process </SPAN><SPAN style="color:#0000FF;">without requiring a task</SPAN><SPAN>. That's what javadoc said as well: "Add a new attachment to a task and/</SPAN><STRONG>or a process instance</STRONG><SPAN>".</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In Activiti 5.11 you'll get an Exception saying "taskId is null".&nbsp; <img id="smileysad" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysad" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.png" alt="Smiley Sad" title="Smiley Sad" /> </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>How do&nbsp; I add an attachment to a process now?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:31:28 GMT gunnar1 2012-12-07T09:31:28Z Activiti 5.11 - unable to create a process attachment https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-5-11-unable-to-create-a-process-attachment/m-p/130604#M91776 Up to Activiti 5.10 it has been possible to add an attachment to a process instance using:&nbsp; /** Add a new attachment to a task and/or a process instance and use an input stream to provide the content */&nbsp; Attachment createAttachment(String attachmentType, String taskId, String processInstanceId, Stri Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:31:28 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-5-11-unable-to-create-a-process-attachment/m-p/130604#M91776 gunnar1 2012-12-07T09:31:28Z Re: Activiti 5.11 - unable to create a process attachment https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-5-11-unable-to-create-a-process-attachment/m-p/130605#M91777 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Wow… two almost identical posts in one day </SPAN><A href="http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=6&amp;t=5718" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=6&amp;t=5718</A><SPAN> … Doesn't anybody use any search functionality anymore</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:54:21 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/activiti-5-11-unable-to-create-a-process-attachment/m-p/130605#M91777 ronald_van_kuij 2012-12-07T09:54:21Z