If you change a short lived to a long lived without versioning it, any running processes will stall if they call it. It will complain about not being able to start the process synchronously.
The basic difference is that a short lived process does not store its process state in the LiveCycle DB the long lived processes do. So when you drop a user task on the process diagram it will change to a long lived automatically as the process data must be stored in the DB.
If you change a short lived to a long lived without versioning it, any running processes will stall if they call it. It will complain about not being able to start the process synchronously.
The following has evaluated to null or missing:
==> liqladmin("SELECT id, value FROM metrics WHERE id = 'net_accepted_solutions' and user.id = '${acceptedAnswer.author.id}'").data.items [in template "analytics-container" at line 83, column 41]
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Tip: It's the step after the last dot that caused this error, not those before it.
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Tip: If the failing expression is known to be legally refer to something that's sometimes null or missing, either specify a default value like myOptionalVar!myDefault, or use <#if myOptionalVar??>when-present<#else>when-missing#if>. (These only cover the last step of the expression; to cover the whole expression, use parenthesis: (myOptionalVar.foo)!myDefault, (myOptionalVar.foo)??
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FTL stack trace ("~" means nesting-related):
- Failed at: #assign answerAuthorNetSolutions = li... [in template "analytics-container" at line 83, column 5]
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