topic How to make variables persistent? in Alfresco Forum https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/how-to-make-variables-persistent/m-p/10587#M4721 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P>I have defined an Activiti process and I can not force variables to be persistent across whole process (they just "evaporate")!</P><P></P><P>Let's say I have "<STRONG><EM>san:value</EM></STRONG>" property defined in <EM>mainUserTask</EM> type in <EM>workflowModel.xml</EM>.</P><P>Every other task is a child of this <EM>mainUserTask</EM>.</P><P>Now, in the Alfresco Share, in the user task I enter the value of "<STRONG><EM>san:value</EM></STRONG>" and click "Task done".</P><P>In the next task, I want to have the same input field with the value I entered earlier. But the value is empty! Why?</P><P>I managed to solve the problem by declaring a TaskListener which gets variable from task and saves it to the execution.</P><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;activiti:taskListener event="complete" class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.activiti.tasklistener.<BR /> &lt;activiti:field name="script"&gt;<BR /> &lt;activiti:string&gt;&lt;![CDATA[execution.setVariable('san_value', task.getVariable('san_value'));]]&gt;&lt;/activiti:string&gt;<BR /> &lt;/activiti:field&gt;<BR />&lt;/activiti:taskListener&gt;‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><P>But do I really have to do it in every single task with every single variable?</P><P></P><P>The next problem is, that<STRONG> in the "Workflow Detalis" view, those variables are empty...</STRONG></P><P>Anyone has an idea how this can be fixed?</P><P></P><P>I also tried calling <EM>Java</EM> class in the taskListener and instantiate variables there but with the same result.</P><PRE class="language-java line-numbers"><CODE>String myprocessinstanceid <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> delegateTask<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN><BR />ProcessEngine processEngine <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> ProcessEngines<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN><SPAN class="token function">getDefaultProcessEngine</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN><BR />RuntimeService myruntimeservice <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> processEngine<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN><SPAN class="token function">getRuntimeService</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN><BR />myruntimeservice<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN><SPAN class="token function">setVariable</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>myprocessinstanceid<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"san_value"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> delegateTask<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN><SPAN class="token function">getVariable</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"san_value"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">;</SPAN>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><P></P><P></P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Mike</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 03 Aug 2019 15:33:31 GMT upforsin 2019-08-03T15:33:31Z How to make variables persistent? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/how-to-make-variables-persistent/m-p/10587#M4721 Hello,I have defined an Activiti process and I can not force variables to be persistent across whole process (they just "evaporate")!Let's say I have "san:value" property defined in mainUserTask type in workflowModel.xml.Every other task is a child of this mainUserTask.Now, in the Alfresco Share, in Sat, 03 Aug 2019 15:33:31 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/how-to-make-variables-persistent/m-p/10587#M4721 upforsin 2019-08-03T15:33:31Z Re: How to make variables persistent? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/how-to-make-variables-persistent/m-p/10588#M4722 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Ok, i believe there is <STRONG>NO way</STRONG> to achieve that. Workflow History view displays only the history and tt was designed not to be edited...</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 04 Aug 2019 15:38:02 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/how-to-make-variables-persistent/m-p/10588#M4722 upforsin 2019-08-04T15:38:02Z