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Re: passing data to nodes
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/rrpeterson">Ryan Peterson</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/625145#625145">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>I'm going through this myself, so far I've found:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Put the variable into the map like you wrote:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Map<String, Object> params = new HashMap<String, Object>();</p><p>boolean examOK = false;</p><p>params.put("examOK", examOK);</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>ksession.startProcess("com.sample.bpmn.hello", params);</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Then in the bpmn definition, you need to have the process variables (if you want a global process variable I think?):</p><p><itemDefinition id="_examOK" structureRef="java.lang.Boolean" /></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>and within the process def itself (still in the .bpmn file):</p><p><property id="examOK" itemSubjectRef="_examOK"/></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>You also need the dataInput mapped to your task (within your task, that lies inside the process):</p><p><dataInput id="_999_examOK" name="examOK" /></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><inputSet></p><p><dataInputRefs>_999_examOK</dataInputRefs></p><p></inputSet></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><dataInputAssociation></p><p>        <sourceRef>examOK</sourceRef></p><p>        <targetRef>_999_examOK</targetRef></p><p></dataInputAssociation></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>That will map it into your workItemHandler, so you can obtain it via:</p><p>Boolean examOk = (Boolean) workItem.getParameter("examOK");</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I'm not 100% sure if this is the "correct" way to implement this.  I'm unsure if this variable is global for all processes, for instance: what if the process is started multiple times for multiple users?  Does each process implementation get its own global examOk boolean using this method?</p></div>
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