Can I listen to a process instance removal?

[Vyacheslav_Biletskiy]

Camunda gives us an opportunity to delete a process instance. It could be done either REST API or through the cockpit. We also can delete an instance using Camunda Java API.

So I would like to have a java listener which is executed on a process instance delete event.

I didn’t manage to find a neat solution for that.

Any suggestion?

[Yana]

You can create a end listener of process instance which will be called on process deletion as well.
More info for execution listeners:
https://docs.camunda.org/manual/latest/user-guide/process-engine/delegation-code/#execution-listener

[Vyacheslav_Biletskiy]

Hi!
I’ve tried this approach, but it wasn’t called.

<bpmn:process id="myProcessId" isExecutable="true">
   <bpmn:extensionElements>
     <camunda:executionListener class="com.company.diagram.listener.EndListener" event="end" />
   </bpmn:extensionElements>
   <bpmn:startEvent id="theStart">
...
</bpmn:process>

[Ingo_Richtsmeier]

Hi @Vyacheslav_Biletskiy,

it looks correct. What did you do exactly?

You can find a working example in the tests: https://github.com/camunda/camunda-bpm-platform/blob/master/engine/src/test/java/org/camunda/bpm/engine/test/bpmn/executionlistener/ExecutionListenerTest.java#L518-L541.

Hope this helps, Ingo

[Vyacheslav_Biletskiy]

Thanks! I tried to remove a process via UI. Today I used REST API endpoint to remove a process and listener was invoked.
Also I found out if we remove process bu REST we have skipCustomListener=false.
And if I remove a process using UI I can see this property as a true.
I think this is the problem.
Do you know the way how to set mentioned property to false globally?

[Yana]

Which is your Camunda version and from where do you trigger the deletion in the UI?

[Vyacheslav_Biletskiy]

I use camunda 7.9v.

Only now I noticed a modal window with skipCustomListener checkbox:

So can we uncheck and disable it by default?

[Yana]

Please have a look at this page for 7.9:
https://docs.camunda.org/manual/7.9/webapps/cockpit/extend/configuration/#skipcustomlisteners-flag

7.11:
https://docs.camunda.org/manual/7.11/webapps/cockpit/extend/configuration/#skipcustomlisteners-and-skipiomappings-flags

[Vyacheslav_Biletskiy]

Thanks @Yana!
And do you know how I can configure that with Camunda Spring Boot application?

[Yana]

This might help you:

Spring Boot: Replace config.js for Webapps-Configuration

I was able to override files in the camunda 7.9.0 webjar, simply by putting them into src/main/resources/META-INF/resources. In there I have app/tasklist/scripts/config.js and it overrides the one from the webjar. [image] From 7.10.0 the layout has changed, use src/main/resources/webjars/camunda/app. You can find out where spring-boot is searching for resources by debugging org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.PathResourceResolver#getResource(), look at the incoming locations.

[Vyacheslav_Biletskiy]

Thanks for the quick response. I’ll try it and post here my results.

[Vyacheslav_Biletskiy]

Thank you @Yana. This helped me to set skipCustomListerer to false and hide it.
In my case, I added a config.js file in app/cockpit/scripts/ folder - src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/app/tasklist/scripts/config.js
And now this modal window looks like

[Ranjit_V]

Hi,

I am also in same situation. Could you please let me know your java code for listening end event? Thanks.

Regards,
Ranjit

[Tobias_Conz]

Hi @Ranjit_V,

may I ask for your use case? What should happen if a process is deleted?

Regards Tobias

[Ranjit_V]

Hi @Tobias_Conz ,

Thanks for your response. When user delete the process from cockpit, another service task should trigger. Asked here, When user delete Process Instance from cockpit, it should trigger a service task - #5 by jwulf .

Regards,
Ranjit