topic How to get to the EngineServices from a service task in Alfresco Archive

How to get to the EngineServices from a service task

srobinson — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:11:37 GMT

I am currently using Alfresco 4.0.e which has Activiti 5.7 deployed with it. I have a need within a service task to get access to the TaskService to query user tasks in the existing process instance. I see how to do it in Activiti 5.11 (its quite simple), but in Activiti 5.7 the same methods are n

Re: How to get to the EngineServices from a service task

trademak — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:19:46 GMT

Hi Shannon,

ProcessEngines.getDefaultProcessEngine() should give you the Activiti Engine from which you can get the TaskService interface.
In Alfresco Community HEAD we already upgraded to Activiti 5.11 so it's not too difficult.
Are you using Alfresco Enterprise or Community? If you are using Community it's probably easiest to upgrade to the latest version.
If you are using Enterprise it's probably wise to stick with 5.7, also from a support standpoint.

Best regards,

Re: How to get to the EngineServices from a service task

srobinson — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:26:12 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply! That was what I needed. We are using Alfresco Community. We have a production deployment already with Alfresco Community 4.0.e and this is a new project implementation that was going to expand the production deployment.

I am really enjoying working with Activiti and Alfresco. Keep up the great work!

- Shannon