how to create global process variables

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boneill

hi All,

I have been pulling my hair out for two days on this so would really appreciate any pointers:

I have a task that sets a variable called signOff to either true or false depending on whether I have collected a value from a user.  I have debugged this and this part works:

<task-node name="validsignoff" >
        <task name="validwf:validSignOffTask" swimlane="initiator">     
        </task>
        <transition name="approve" to="signoffreceived" >
           <action class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.jbpm.AlfrescoJavaScript">
                   <script>               
                      <variable name="validwf_validid" access="read"/>
                      <variable name="signOff" access="write" />
                      <expression>
                          logger.log("Valid ID = " + validwf_validid);
                          signOff = false;
                          if (validwf_validid != null &amp;&amp; validwf_validid.length != 0)
                             signOff = true;
                          
                                                     logger.log("ValidSignOFF - signOff = " + signOff);
                       </expression>
                   </script>
               </action>
        </transition>
       <transition to="rejected" name="reject"></transition>
    </task-node>
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I then read this variable value in a decision node to determine which path to follow, onto end if user has entered a value, or back to the originating node if the user has not set a value.

<decision name="signoffreceived">         
      <transition to="validsignoff" name="incompletesignoff">
         <condition>#{signOff == false}</condition>
      </transition>
      <transition to="endreview">
         <condition>#{signOff == true}</condition>
      </transition>
   </decision>
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However it does not work as signOff comes up as undefined. 
So how do I set signOff to be a gloabal variable and how do I evaluate it in the transition code.

Any help really, really appreciated. 

Regards

_sax

To be global, you could try to leave out the line
<action class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.jbpm.AlfrescoJavaScript">
leaving
<transition name="approve" to="signoffreceived" >
       <script>
    …
       </script>
</transition>
And you could try to define that variable in your model definition in the first task-node it occurs in.

I've, too been pulling on this topic, before.