Capture Process Start and End Dates

[pseymour75]

Hi All

Apologies for this simple question, but I'm just starting to look at Activiti.

I'm using the Eclipse plugin to create my business processes and what I need to do is capture the process start/finish date and store them as a process variables.

Can someone point me in the right direction of how to do this in Eclipse? (use a script task?)

Many thanks

Paul

[jbarrez]

Those are automatically saved in the history tables.

[pseymour75]

Hi jbarrez

Thank you for the reply.

How could I retrieve these dates and have then stored as a process variable? I want to use this variable values later in my process?

Thanks in advance

Paul

[jbarrez]

You got two options:
- Fetch them through the API in a service task or script tak and store them as variables
- Use a custom execution listener that actually just puts a new Date() in a variable at the beginning/end, thus not using the historic data generated by the engine.