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    Re: getting process variables available in service task
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    created by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/fellowtom">Thomas Colditz</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/message/832438#832438">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>thanks for your replies. I dont know how to change "=" to "-&gt;" since using the editor(eclipse-plugin) doesn't offer this ability. You can just type parameter and variable. And the xml(service task) looks like:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code jive-xml"><span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;serviceTask id="_4" name="Service Task" operationRef="_4_ServiceOperation" implementation="Other" &gt;</span>
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;ioSpecification&gt;</span>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;dataInput id="_4_param" name="Parameter" /&gt;</span>
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;dataOutput id="_4_result" name="Result" /&gt;</span>
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;inputSet&gt;</span>
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;dataInputRefs&gt;</span>_4_param<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/dataInputRefs&gt;</span>
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/inputSet&gt;</span>
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;outputSet&gt;</span>
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;dataOutputRefs&gt;</span>_4_result<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/dataOutputRefs&gt;</span>
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/outputSet&gt;</span>
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/ioSpecification&gt;</span>
<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/serviceTask&gt;</span>
</code></pre><p>So there is no mapping with my variable "s" visible here.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>@Maciej: What do you mean with how/when i read from workItem? Here the sample code:</p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code jive-java"><font color="navy"><b>public</b></font> <font color="navy"><b>class</b></font> SampleServiceTask <font color="navy"><b>implements</b></font> WorkItemHandler<font color="navy">{</font>
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <font color="navy"><b>public</b></font> <font color="navy"><b>void</b></font> executeWorkItem(WorkItem workItem, WorkItemManager workItemManager) <font color="navy">{</font>
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; System.out.println(workItem.getParameter(<font color="red">"param"</font>));
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; workItemManager.completeWorkItem(workItem.getId(), <font color="navy"><b>null</b></font>);
&#160;&#160;&#160; <font color="navy">}</font>
&#160;&#160;&#160; <font color="navy"><b>public</b></font> <font color="navy"><b>void</b></font> abortWorkItem(WorkItem workItem, WorkItemManager workItemManager) <font color="navy">{</font>
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; System.out.println(<font color="red">"Service task aborted."</font>);
&#160;&#160;&#160; <font color="navy">}</font>
<font color="navy">}</font>
</code></pre><p>It makes no difference if I set "param" as precess variable on start or not ("s" ofc is set). I think I'm doing something very basic wrong atm.</p><p><br/>Greeting,</p><p>Tom</p></div>

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