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Re: Obtain taskInstance variables in mail template
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created by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/francesco.stampacchia">Francesco Stampacchia</a> in <i>jBPM Development</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/message/728529#728529">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hello!</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Well, using a mail template I'm naturally relying on the <strong>notify</strong> parameter specified in the task node xml definition, like this:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><table><tbody><tr><td style=";"><br/></td><td style=";"><task-node name="Draft"></td><td style=";"><br/></td></tr><tr><td style=";"><br/></td><td style=";"><br/></td><td style=";"><task name="program_defined" swimlane="PM" description="DRAFT"<strong> notify="true"</strong>></task></td></tr><tr><td style=";"><br/></td><td style=";"><br/></td><td style=";"><transition to="Active" name="validate"></transition></td></tr><tr><td style=";"><br/></td><td style=";"></task-node></td><td style=";"><br/></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>As such, I'm using an xml template in which I can invoke my <strong>processInstance</strong> properties and variables. </p><p>I.e. with #{<span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: #eef4f9;">taskInstance.<strong>actorId</strong></span>} to obtain <strong>actorId</strong> in my mail template.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>By the way, my issue was solved as I thought. Infact, if you carry a set of variables with your <strong>taskInstance</strong>, you can retrieve them by calling them in this way:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>#{taskInstance.variables.<strong>variable_name</strong>}</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>where <strong>variable_name</strong> is the <strong>key</strong> name used to store your variable in the <strong>taskInstance</strong>.</p><p>Hope this can be useful to someone else!</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Cheers!</p></div>
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