How to programmatically get a list of all inactive processes?

Camunda 7 Topics Discussion & Questions
1

Hi Camunda Team,
is there a way to read all processes that are deployed but not started yet?

Currently we read the “deployedList” and the “activeinstances” and than we reduce the
“deployedList” accordingly but I wonder if there is a better way?

Thanks and best regards
Roland

2

You could query for process definitions

3

Hi Niall
can you please provide some more information/code?

For example, to get the active instances, we use the runtimeservice

List processInstances =
runtimeService.createProcessInstanceQuery().active().list();

How would I ask the BPM engine for process instances that are available(deployed) but not yet started?
Thanks, Roland

4

If you want to get all the definitions that you could potentially start then you can sue this:

    execution.getProcessEngineServices()
    .getRepositoryService()
    .createDecisionDefinitionQuery()
    .list();
5

Hi Roland,

There is no single built-in query that lets you find process definitions for which there are no process instances. You could either write a custom SQL query or do a nested process instance count query for every process definition.

Cheers,
Thorben