I need to read values from a MySQL database and assign actors for human task accordingly. How can I retrieve content from a database or a file into the web designer?

[rekhyt73]

I have searched the web with no results. I am using the jbpm 5.4 web designer.

Thanks for your help.

Aayush.

[jsvitak]

Hello Aayush,

The web designer is not able to connect to a database in a way you describe. There is another approach how to solve this.

You can use process variables. You can fill the Actors field in designer with a value like #{actors}. In your code, you can fetch data from a database and supply them as a process variable "actors" to a process instance when calling startProcess() method.

See also: https://community.jboss.org/thread/216207

Hope that helps.

[rekhyt73]

Thanks a lot Jiri.