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Capture Process Start and End Dates

pseymour75 — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 08:11:39 GMT

Hi AllApologies for this simple question, but I'm just starting to look at Activiti.I'm using the Eclipse plugin to create my business processes and what I need to do is capture the process start/finish date and store them as a process variables.Can someone point me in the right direction of how to

Re: Capture Process Start and End Dates

jbarrez — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:19:01 GMT

Those are automatically saved in the history tables.

Re: Capture Process Start and End Dates

pseymour75 — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 10:59:37 GMT

Hi jbarrez

Thank you for the reply.

How could I retrieve these dates and have then stored as a process variable? I want to use this variable values later in my process?

Thanks in advance

Paul

Re: Capture Process Start and End Dates

jbarrez — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 11:22:50 GMT

You got two options:
- Fetch them through the API in a service task or script tak and store them as variables
- Use a custom execution listener that actually just puts a new Date() in a variable at the beginning/end, thus not using the historic data generated by the engine.