topic Save Variables without completing Task in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/save-variables-without-completing-task/m-p/132696#M93198 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I want to save entered Values of an Task, without completing it. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>This so far can be achieved by calling runtimeservice.setVariable()</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In my XHTML files, im binding the form-fields directly to the processVariableMap, so a call to businessProcess.complete()</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>will flush that values.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So, without completing the process and having all (updated) values inside the processVariableMap, i need to </SPAN><EM>iterate</EM><SPAN>over the processVariableMap</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>in order to update the process's internal variableMap using setVariable() as mentioned above.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>However the implementation of the ProcessVariableMap neither supports size(), containsKey(), keySet(), values() nor any of the functions I would need </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>to access all key/value pairs in an iterative way.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So, what to do? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Here's what i want to achieve:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;public String saveChanges(BusinessProcess businessProcess, ProcessVariableMap processVariables){<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;//Save all variables.<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;for (Map.Entry&lt;String, Object&gt; entry : processVariables.entrySet()) {<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;//Save to process using runtimeService<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;System.out.println("Just saving task.");<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;return this.getNavigationOutcome();<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>but as mentioned:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: org.activiti.cdi.impl.ProcessVariableMap.entrySet() is not supported.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>using </SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />this.runtimeservice.setVariables(businessProcess.getExecutionId(), processVariables);<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>instead of iterating manually results in an Exception also:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: org.activiti.cdi.impl.ProcessVariableMap.keySet() is not supported.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:47:32 GMT dognose 2012-12-10T08:47:32Z Save Variables without completing Task https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/save-variables-without-completing-task/m-p/132696#M93198 Hello,I want to save entered Values of an Task, without completing it. This so far can be achieved by calling runtimeservice.setVariable()In my XHTML files, im binding the form-fields directly to the processVariableMap, so a call to businessProcess.complete()will flush that values.So, without comple Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:47:32 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/save-variables-without-completing-task/m-p/132696#M93198 dognose 2012-12-10T08:47:32Z Re: Save Variables without completing Task https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/save-variables-without-completing-task/m-p/132697#M93199 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>That's indeed a limitation of the current BusinessProcess and ProcessvariableMap in activiti-cdi. Can you create a Jira-issue for this so we can get this sorted out?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:11:07 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/save-variables-without-completing-task/m-p/132697#M93199 frederikherema1 2012-12-19T15:11:07Z