topic Re: Process Instance name has no default value ? in Alfresco Forum

Process Instance name has no default value ?

ppcchh — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 17:22:48 GMT

Hello,I have a pretty straight forward question. Is it considered as normal that process instance names are not persisted and not returned on an API call such Get a process instance OR Get a historic process instance, although a field NAME_ is present in ACT_HI_PROCINST ?I was expecting a process i

Re: Process Instance name has no default value ?

gdharley — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 18:10:36 GMT

Interesting question.

The code in RestResponseFactory.createProcessInstanceResponse certainly indicates the name is being added to the response but for some reason it's not showing up.

Strange.

Greg

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Re: Process Instance name has no default value ?

ppcchh — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 09:45:58 GMT

Thanks for the reply.

Maybe my original post is a bit confusing when is say

although a field NAME_ is present in ACT_HI_PROCINST

What I meant is the field is indeed present in the DB schema, but the value is null. Then in my case it is not that weird it does not show up in the response.

What is more questionable it is why the engine do not default name the process instance with the process definition name.

Maybe the name is intented to be set manually via a listener ?

Re: Process Instance name has no default value ?

gdharley — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:59:19 GMT

Hmm, NAME_ seems to be populated for me.