Hi Kris, We are trying to write some info into a DB before and after a workItem gets executed. To do this I need the workItem's definition name which we want to use as a kind of workItem type (for example: Email). The problem we got is: at beforeNodeTriggered (since workItem hasn't been triggered yet) we cannot interrogate the workItem instance since is null. *event.getNodeInstance().getNodeName()* doesn't help since it provides a name the user gave to the workItem in a particular business process definition (for example: MyManagerEmail). At beforeNodeLeft, we succeeded with this code: /if (event.getNodeInstance() instanceof WorkItemNodeInstance){ WorkItemNodeInstance wi = (WorkItemNodeInstance)event.getNodeInstance(); Workitemstatus dto = new Workitemstatus(); dto.setWorkitemtype( wi.getWorkItem().getName()); //definition name dto.setWiName(event.getNodeInstance().getNodeName()); //given name inside a bp ... save(dto); }/ but we also need the workItem's definition name before the workItem execution... We thought like Carlos we could use afterNodeTriggered, but we found exactly the behavior you explained here, which brakes the sequence we are looking for. Is there another way to obtain the workItem's definition name inside the beforeNodeTriggered method? Cheers, Jim -- View this message in context: http://drools.46999.n3.nabble.com/ProcessEventListener-event-order-tp1437... Sent from the Drools: User forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com.