Issue while setting custom metadata

[ani_rvce]

Hi All

I am working on CQ workflows to add metadata via dialog participant step. In my dialog I am adding a field with name="mycustomdata". When I submit the workflow step- I do not get it stored in the metaData instead it goes under history. So I can not get this data in the next step. 

I tried to change the name like- name="./metaData/mycustomdata" but this gives constraintViolation error and the data is not stored anywhere.

javax.jcr.nodetype.ConstraintViolationException: no matching property definition found for {} mycustomdata

The Adobe documentation reflects that we can store data to workflow node via dialogs and get it in any next subsequent steps. can someone guide me how to achieve this.

Thanks in advance

Anand

[smacdonald2008 · Accepted solution]

You can use the JCR API in a custom workflow step to get node props. Write a custom workflow step to get the value of a specific nodes property.