topic Problems with Activiti upgrade from Activiti 5.15 to Activiti 6 in Alfresco Forum https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/problems-with-activiti-upgrade-from-activiti-5-15-to-activiti-6/m-p/28737#M12259 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Good morning,</P><P>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to upgrade, we followed the migration guide at the following link:<BR /><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="https://www.activiti.org/migration.html#_v5_compatibility" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.activiti.org/migration.html#_v5_compatibility</A></P><P>Including the part concerning compatibility with Activiti 5.</P><P></P><P>To date, we use a series of workflows that have sub-workflows within them.</P><P></P><P>After upgrading to Activiti 6, we encountered some issues and decided to run some tests.</P><P><BR />Below I describe how much we have deduced:</P><P>1)</P><P>There is a workflow that was started before the upgrade to Activiti 6.<BR />After updating and after reloading all workflows with engine 6, I see the flag in the db, we have continued the workflow.<BR />However, once you get to the sub-workflow, when you try to start it, the application goes into error with the following exception:</P><P>16:06:28,162 ERROR [org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContext] (http-/127.0.0.1:8080-92) Error while closing command context: org.activiti.engine.ActivitiException: couldn't execute activity &lt;callActivity id="callactivity4" ...&gt;: org.activiti.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ProcessDefinitionEntityImpl cannot be cast to org.activiti5.engine.impl.persistence.entity.ProcessDefinitionEntity<BR /> at org.activiti.compatibility.DefaultActiviti5CompatibilityHandler.handleActivitiException(DefaultActiviti5CompatibilityHandler.java:997) [activiti5-compatibility-6.0.0.jar:]<BR /> at org.activiti.compatibility.DefaultActiviti5CompatibilityHandler.completeTask(DefaultActiviti5CompatibilityHandler.java:507) [activiti5-compatibility-6.0.0.jar:]<BR /> at org.activiti.engine.impl.cmd.CompleteTaskCmd.execute(CompleteTaskCmd.java:52) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]<BR /> at org.activiti.engine.impl.cmd.CompleteTaskCmd.execute(CompleteTaskCmd.java:25) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]<BR /> at org.activiti.engine.impl.cmd.NeedsActiveTaskCmd.execute(NeedsActiveTaskCmd.java:56) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]<BR /> at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandInvoker$1.run(CommandInvoker.java:37) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]<BR /> at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandInvoker.executeOperation(CommandInvoker.java:78) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]<BR /> at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandInvoker.executeOperations(CommandInvoker.java:57) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]<BR /> at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandInvoker.execute(CommandInvoker.java:42) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]<BR /> at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.TransactionContextInterceptor.execute(TransactionContextInterceptor.java:48) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]<BR /> at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContextInterceptor.execute(CommandContextInterceptor.java:63) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]<BR /> at org.activiti.spring.SpringTransactionInterceptor$1.doInTransaction(SpringTransactionInterceptor.java:47) [activiti-spring-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]<BR /> at org.springframework.transaction.support.TransactionTemplate.execute(TransactionTemplate.java:131) [spring-tx-3.2.7.RELEASE.jar:3.2.7.RELEASE]<BR /> at org.activiti.spring.SpringTransactionInterceptor.execute(SpringTransactionInterceptor.java:45) [activiti-spring-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]<BR /> at org.activiti.engine.impl.interceptor.LogInterceptor.execute(LogInterceptor.java:29) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]<BR /> at org.activiti.engine.impl.cfg.CommandExecutorImpl.execute(CommandExecutorImpl.java:44) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]<BR /> at org.activiti.engine.impl.cfg.CommandExecutorImpl.execute(CommandExecutorImpl.java:39) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]<BR /> at org.activiti.engine.impl.TaskServiceImpl.complete(TaskServiceImpl.java:186) [activiti-engine-6.0.0.jar:6.0.0]</P><P></P><P>2)</P><P>We decided to load only the sub-workflow with the Activiti Engine 5 mode, as described in the documentation:</P><P>deploymentProperty(DeploymentProperties.DEPLOY_AS_ACTIVITI5_PROCESS_DEFINITION, Boolean.TRUE</P><P></P><P>As regards the workflow started before the update to activiti 6, the start of the sub-workflow occurred without errors.</P><P>However, having started a new instance of the same workflow, when it arrives at the sub-workflow and tries to start it, it goes into error with the following exception:</P><P>Error while closing command context: org.activiti.engine.ActivitiException: No start element found for process definition<img id="smileytongue" class="emoticon emoticon-smileytongue" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-tongue.png" alt="Smiley Tongue" title="Smiley Tongue" />ubblicazione:10:198564 --&gt; Where Pubblicazione is sub-workflow name (defined into activiti.act_re_procdef table)</P><P></P><P>To solve the problem and still be able to use the entire workflow system, we reloaded all workflows with activiti5,&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>deploymentProperty(DeploymentProperties.DEPLOY_AS_ACTIVITI5_PROCESS_DEFINITION, Boolean.TRUE, so that both the new and the old workflows are able to perform the sub-workflows, complete all the tasks and finish.<BR /><BR /></SPAN></P><P>From our point of view it seems a compatibility bug.<BR />We hope to have been useful and to have helped you to identify and solve the problem.<BR />I hope you can look into the matter and provide us with support in this regard.</P><P></P><P>Thanks in advance</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 03 Jan 2018 09:20:15 GMT mattia-be 2018-01-03T09:20:15Z Problems with Activiti upgrade from Activiti 5.15 to Activiti 6 https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/problems-with-activiti-upgrade-from-activiti-5-15-to-activiti-6/m-p/28737#M12259 Good morning,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;to upgrade, we followed the migration guide at the following link:https://www.activiti.org/migration.html#_v5_compatibilityIncluding the part concerning compatibility with Activiti 5.To date, we use a series of workflows that have sub-workflows within them.After upgra Wed, 03 Jan 2018 09:20:15 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/problems-with-activiti-upgrade-from-activiti-5-15-to-activiti-6/m-p/28737#M12259 mattia-be 2018-01-03T09:20:15Z Re: Problems with Activiti upgrade from Activiti 5.15 to Activiti 6 https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/problems-with-activiti-upgrade-from-activiti-5-15-to-activiti-6/m-p/28738#M12260 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello <A __default_attr="173025" __jive_macro_name="user" _jive_internal="true" data-id="173025" data-objecttype="3" data-type="person" href="https://community.alfresco.com/people/mattia-be" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></A>‌,</P><P>Did you somehow manage to solve this error? After upgrading to 6.0 we encountered the same problem and running out of option in order to fix it <img id="smileysad" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysad" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.png" alt="Smiley Sad" title="Smiley Sad" /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 19 Apr 2018 07:06:15 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/problems-with-activiti-upgrade-from-activiti-5-15-to-activiti-6/m-p/28738#M12260 arturkozyrski 2018-04-19T07:06:15Z Re: Problems with Activiti upgrade from Activiti 5.15 to Activiti 6 https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/problems-with-activiti-upgrade-from-activiti-5-15-to-activiti-6/m-p/28739#M12261 <P>Facing same issue (Activiti upgrade from Activiti 5.15 to Activiti 6)<BR />Any Suggestion, It is working fine with 5.xx but issue with 6.00&nbsp;</P> Fri, 01 May 2020 16:24:55 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/problems-with-activiti-upgrade-from-activiti-5-15-to-activiti-6/m-p/28739#M12261 jNishant044 2020-05-01T16:24:55Z