Access Flow ID Programmically

[RShelley]

I'm looking for a way to access the user's current Flow ID so that we can identify the sub-flow the user is in as part of a Workflow process (if the user is in FlowA, it corresponds to Step1, so that step is bolded and highlighted in the UI). I could set a static variable in the flowscope of each sub-flow, but it seems overkill just to get an ID value that should already exist somewhere.

[ravkrr]

hello there,

you could extend FormAction and use one is methods with RequestContext as a parameter. You can then retrieve the active flow and perform your logic.


Kris

[RShelley]

True, context.getActiveFlow().getId() would have it. It seems this should be inherently available within the FlowScope so you could immediately access it in decision-states and views. I can work with this though... thanks!

[RShelley]

Just out of curiosity, I tried to get the ID within the JSP directly through the request context - context.getActiveFlow().getId():

<c:out value="${activeFlow.id}"/>

And that doesn't return anything. I'm not even sure if that would have been an alternate approach, just thought I'd try...