Business keyy

[Gus_fring]

What is business key?
What does business key do?
Where it comes to usage?
Please explain it in simple terms

[jwarren]

A business key is essentially a unique identifier that is generated outside of Camunda and is specific to you process application. You can map this identifier into Camunda as a businessKey to make it easier to search/filter for the specific instance inside of Camunda.

An example would be if you had an order management system where every order started a Camunda workflow. The id of the order (generated from an external ordering system) could be used as the businessKey in Camunda. Then it would be much easier to search for the Order inside of Camunda because the businessKey is an indexed field in the database.

A more detailed article can be found here https://blog.camunda.com/post/2018/10/business-key/

[aravindhrs]

Refer this post:

Business Key

Hi Garth, I like to think of the businessKey as the business user’s unique identifier for a process instance. Whilst the engine internals use processInstanceId, this is meaningless to the business user who can thus use something more meaningful. For example, the businessKey could be the reference number on an application form, the policy number on an insurance policy, the customer number from a CRM record, a shipping tracking number. I tend to think of a businessKey as a lot like a process va…