topic Re: Field injection on email task not working in Alfresco Archive

Field injection on email task not working

ericsnyder — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:15:02 GMT

I have the following email task that is trying to use the value of the field "description" in the subject line and text. <serviceTask id="mailtask1" name="Mail Task" activiti:type="mail"> <extensionElements> <activiti:field name="to"> <activiti:expression

Re: Field injection on email task not working

ronnybr — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:45:01 GMT

Well, it makes sense, that you get the text ${description} when using activiti:string.
I'd use, like you mentioned, <activiti:expression> every time you refer to some process variable with ${…}.
So using
<code>
        <activiti:field name="subject">
          <activiti:expression>${description}</activiti:expression>
        </activiti:field>
</code>
or alternatively
<code>
<activiti:field name="subject" expression="${description}" />
</code>
should work.

Re: Field injection on email task not working

ericsnyder — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:51:14 GMT

ronnybr:
Thanks, I see what is going on. I was using the graphical editor to set up the fields. It looks like some of the fields (text and subject in this case) are not recognizing when an expression is being placed in them to wrap them with the proper tags in the xml file.

I see now in the documentation that there are a few different <activiti:???> tags. In this case the graphical editor was using <activiti:string> when it needed to be <activiti:expression>.

Thanks for the pointer.