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Capture Process Start and End Dates

pseymour75 — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 14:42:10 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

trademak — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 09:40:46 GMT

The process instance start date and completion date are stored automatically in the ACT_HI_PROCINST table and you can retrieve the values via the HistoryService.

Best regards,

Re: Capture Process Start and End Dates

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

Hi Trademak

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

frederikherema1 — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 11:27:18 GMT

If you want to store the start-date as a variable, you can do this by adding an ExecutionListener to the process (with accompanying Java-class) that writes the current time as a variable and the same can be done for the end of the process (event="end").

If it's not a hard requirement to store those as variables, you can use the Java-api to fetch the HistoricProcessInstance for the process and get the start and potential end-date.