topic Why customized field can be defined in startEvent but not userTask? in Alfresco Forum https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/why-customized-field-can-be-defined-in-startevent-but-not/m-p/17091#M7595 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Why customized field can be defined in startEvent but not userTask? I have defined customized field called scheduledPublishDate in my workflow content model with namespace ut. Here is the partial workflow definition:</P><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive_macro_quote jive-quote jive_text_macro"><P>&lt;startEvent id="start" name="Start" activiti:formKey="ut:scheduleTask"&gt;<BR /> &lt;extensionElements&gt;<BR /> &lt;activiti:executionListener event="start" class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.activiti.listener.ScriptExecutionListener"&gt;<BR /> &lt;activiti:field name="script"&gt;<BR /> &lt;activiti:string&gt;<BR /> logger.log("##########workflow start:start!!!");<BR /> if (typeof ut_scheduledPublishDate != 'undefined') {<BR /> logger.log("##########workflow start::ut_scheduledPublishDate defined");<BR /> }<BR /> &lt;/activiti:string&gt;<BR /> &lt;/activiti:field&gt;<BR /> &lt;/activiti:executionListener&gt;<BR /> &lt;/extensionElements&gt; <BR /> &lt;/startEvent&gt;</P></BLOCKQUOTE><P>It does print out "##########workflow start::ut_scheduledPublishDate defined" &nbsp;But if I change startEvent to use formKey as&nbsp;wf:submitReviewTask with the following fragment</P><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive_macro_quote jive-quote jive_text_macro"><P>&lt;userTask id="SchedulePublishTast" name="Schedule Publish Task" activiti:assignee="${initiator.properties.userName}" activiti:formKey="ut:scheduleTask"&gt;<BR /> &lt;extensionElements&gt;<BR /> &lt;activiti:taskListener event="complete" class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.activiti.tasklistener.ScriptTaskListener"&gt;<BR /> &lt;activiti:field name="script"&gt;<BR /> &lt;activiti:string&gt;<BR /> if (typeof ut_scheduledPublishDate != 'undefined') {<BR />&nbsp; logger.log("##########ut_scheduledPublishDate DOES defined!!!");<BR /> } else {<BR />&nbsp; logger.log("##########ut_scheduledPublishDate NOT defined!!!");<BR /> }<BR /> &lt;/activiti:string&gt;<BR /> &lt;/activiti:field&gt;<BR /> &lt;/activiti:taskListener&gt;<BR /> &lt;/extensionElements&gt; <BR /> &lt;/userTask&gt;</P><P>It prints out&nbsp;<SPAN style="background-color: #f6f6f6;">"##########ut_scheduledPublishDate NOT defined!!!"</SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE><P>The same formKey ut:scheduleTask. If used in startEvent, I can get defined customized field but I can't get it if used in userTask. But I can see the field from user interface. Anybody knows what I might be missing. Thanks in advance</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:17:53 GMT jboss_user 2017-09-07T15:17:53Z Why customized field can be defined in startEvent but not userTask? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/why-customized-field-can-be-defined-in-startevent-but-not/m-p/17091#M7595 Why customized field can be defined in startEvent but not userTask? I have defined customized field called scheduledPublishDate in my workflow content model with namespace ut. Here is the partial workflow definition:&lt;startEvent id="start" name="Start" activiti:formKey="ut:scheduleTask"&gt; &lt;ex Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:17:53 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/why-customized-field-can-be-defined-in-startevent-but-not/m-p/17091#M7595 jboss_user 2017-09-07T15:17:53Z Re: Why customized field can be defined in startEvent but not userTask? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/why-customized-field-can-be-defined-in-startevent-but-not/m-p/17092#M7596 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Never mind. I resolved by myself. What is interesting is that I don't need to set variable in startEvent but need it in userTask for other tasks to refer</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:03:31 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/why-customized-field-can-be-defined-in-startevent-but-not/m-p/17092#M7596 jboss_user 2017-09-07T16:03:31Z