Obtaining job-id inside Workbench

[Former Community Member]

Hi,

How do I obtain the invocation job-id in a process inside Workbench? It doens't turn up in the xpath builder.

I would like to use it to identify the job when calling a web service.

[Former Community Member]

Bump! It can't be that hard. Beanshell? Anything? Anyone?

[_Nith_ · Accepted solution]

You can directly query the database and get the invocation_id using Sql Activity.

Table Name : tb_process_instance

Coloumn : long_lived_invocation_id

Query : SELECT long_lived_invocation_id FROM tb_process_instance WHERE id=11111

Nith

[Former Community Member]

Thanks Nith - works like a charm (although a bit odd having to ask the database).

Why separate id and invokation-id?

[_Nith_]

I'm not sure why two separate Ids.

I suspect in this way:

An invocation to a long-lived process will be queued and assigned with an unique invocation Id. The uniquie Process Id will be assigned to it only when it comes to a running status.

This invocation id is not applicable to short-lived process invocations.

Nith