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reply from <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/charles_a">Charles Aznavour</a> in <i>jBPM Development</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/554957#554957">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi guys,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>some input:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><ul><li>capturing the initiator shouldn´t be linked in any way with tasks. We have processes withtout tasks, but we still need the information who started this process</li><li>we use a swimlane for the initiator. The swimlane evaluates a variables we pass in on process start. In the process we use this swimlane to reference to the initiator.</li><li>after a process has finished the initiator information shoudn´t be lost. We need to be able to find  process instances (running and finished) "per initiator". Therefore, we additionally create a history variables to persist this information.</li></ul><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Currently, we provide the initiator information on process start to let the swimlane know the value. And then, we create a history variable for it, which is (programatically) only possible after the process has been started. A bit of the same work twice, but it works and happens automatically in our system. We did´t want to the user to specifiy history variables it in the process definition for the initiator, as it´s a requirement that must always be met.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Cheers,</p><p>Charles</p></div>
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