Is the unique process ID available in Eclipse designer

[rossputin]

Hi guys,

just as we can access #{initiator} in the eclipse designer to put the initiator's username in mail nodes etc, is there the equivalent to access the unique process ID ?

Thanks for your help,

Ross

[rossputin]

Hi,

sorry if I have not been very clear, basically I want to be able to include the unique process ID in subject and text elements within mail nodes in the eclipse designer,

any help is greatly appreciated,

thanks

Ross

[kukeltje]

what is the unique processid?

[rossputin]

Hi,

in Mysql the processinstance table has a primary key ID, and in the javadocs, a class org.jbpm.graph.exe.ProcessInstance has a method getId which returns a long... I was wondering if it is possible to include this information in the subject or text element of a mail node.. it may be that I need to put it in a process variable, I was just not sure whether it was already handled,

thanks,

Ross

[aguizar]

Section 18.3 of the user guide lists the implicit objects available in expressions. One of them is the process instance.

Try #{processInstance.getId}

[rossputin]

Hi, thanks thats great, will poke around more in the user guide,

regards

Ross

[kukeltje]

Correct you could, but there is also a new businesskey, one that you can fill with a more sensible unique value and use in your mail.

[rossputin]

ah, that sounds interesting.. where might I be able to read more about that?

thanks

Ross