Field injection on email task not working

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ericsnyder

I have the following email task that is trying to use the value of the field "description" in the subject line and text.

    <serviceTask id="mailtask1" name="Mail Task" activiti:type="mail">
      <extensionElements>
        <activiti:field name="to">
          <activiti:expression>#{emailAddresses.convert(emailTo)}</activiti:expression>
        </activiti:field>
        <activiti:field name="from">
          <activiti:string>no-reply@sharpline.com</activiti:string>
        </activiti:field>
        <activiti:field name="subject">
          <activiti:string>${description}</activiti:string>
        </activiti:field>
        <activiti:field name="text">
          <activiti:string>${description} is approved.</activiti:string>
        </activiti:field>
        <activiti:field name="cc">
          <activiti:expression>#{emailAddresses.convert(emailCC)}</activiti:expression>
        </activiti:field>
      </extensionElements>
    </serviceTask>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

I get the literal text "${description} rather than the value for the variable "description".

Bug? How do I get this resolved? I really need to get this running so I can move on to something else.

BY the way, this is working:

<activiti:expression>#{emailAddresses.convert(emailTo)}</activiti:expression>‍

ronnybr

Well, it makes sense, that you get the text ${description} when using activiti:string.
I'd use, like you mentioned, <activiti:expression> every time you refer to some process variable with ${…}.
So using
<code>
        <activiti:field name="subject">
          <activiti:expression>${description}</activiti:expression>
        </activiti:field>
</code>
or alternatively
<code>
<activiti:field name="subject" expression="${description}" />
</code>
should work.