topic Re: set subprocess name in Alfresco Forum

set subprocess name

peteth — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 13:57:13 GMT

I have a Process Definition that makes a number of different calls to a subprocess via Call Activity, as the subprocess is called multiple times for many different reasons, I'd like to be able to set the 'Name' for each instance of the called subprocess, so that name gets displayed on the Admin Con

Re: set subprocess name

mdtabrezmca — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 06:50:42 GMT

Hi,

You can chek this test case where you can change the current process instance name in activiti 6. You can check the for the same test case exists in the 1.5 as well....

Activiti/RuntimeServiceTest.java at 6.x · Activiti/Activiti · GitHub

Test this method :testSetProcessInstanceName

Re: set subprocess name

bassam_al-saror — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 15:57:54 GMT

Where did you use the ExecutionListener?

Re: set subprocess name

peteth — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 16:33:47 GMT

Thanks for the suggestions and question. I tried running that Unit Test that sets the process instance name using Version 1.5 and yes it works.

Regarding where I put the listener, I tried it on the Start of the Process, with the listener listening to the 'start' event type. I also tried it on the first transition arrow, after the 'start'.

However today rather than setting on the listener, I realised the Called Process always makes a call to a JavaDelegate's execute(DelegateExecution execution)

so today I tried setting the process name in there to a process variable.

@Override
public void execute(DelegateExecution execution) throws Exception {

   String currentActivityId = execution.getCurrentActivityId();
   logger.debug(String.format( "CurrentActivityId: %s , for processInstanceId:%s", currentActivityId, execution.getProcessInstanceId() ));

   if (currentActivityId != null && currentActivityId.equals("restRetryTask")) {
           RuntimeService runtimeService = execution.getEngineServices().getRuntimeService();
           String taskName = (String) execution.getVariable("taskName");
           logger.debug(String.format("Setting ProcessInstanceName to TaskName: %s , for processInstanceId:%s", taskName, execution.getProcessInstanceId()));
           if (taskName != null) {
               runtimeService.setProcessInstanceName(execution.getProcessInstanceId(), taskName);
           }
       }

And interestingly, this seems to correctly set the value into the ACT_HI_PROCINST table for the called process, I can run a SQL query to check (see screenshot below). However the value still does not appear in the Admin App UI

SELECT * FROM act_hi_procinst WHERE PROC_INST_ID_ = 5522689

Admin UI for parent process

Admin UI for Called Process

Any thoughts gratefully received.

Re: set subprocess name

bassam_al-saror — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 09:53:34 GMT

It works fine on 1.9 could be an issue with the admin app UI that was fixed post to 1.5.

Does the REST API return the process instance name?

POST

http://hostort/activiti-app/api/query/historic-process-instances?tenant_id=1

{
"superProcessInstanceId": "40010"

}

Note replace tenant_id with the tenant you are using.