How to pass a variable from the called workflow to the calling workflow?

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alper

I do execution.setVariable("A","B") while in the parent workflow.
Then paren workflow passes the variable A to the child workflow, and I do execution.setVariable("A","C") in the child workflow.
Upon returning to the parent workflow I do execution.getVariable("A") and get "B"!
So changes done in the child workflow were not saved.
What am I doing wrong? How to correctly pass the variable from the child workflow to the upper level?
Thank you.

pkonyves

Try the passing variables chapter: http://activiti.org/userguide/#bpmnCallActivity
Or if that does not work, you can try retrieving the DelegateExecution#parentId(), and use runtimeservice to set the variable back to the parent execution.