How to cancel a specific task process

RE: How to cancel a specific task process

marios6581 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 08:45:16 GMT

Does this stop the email from going?

RE: How to cancel a specific task process

cedric02 — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 07:45:05 GMT

Ok, I understand better, thank you Stefan

RE: How to cancel a specific task process

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 16:41:50 GMT

What I mean is, by cancelling another process, you interrupt the business process. If this behaviour is required, then you should design this into the process instead of just killing it from the outside.

docs.appian.com/.../Receive_Message_Event.html

RE: How to cancel a specific task process

cedric02 — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:59:25 GMT

Yes stefan, it is a business requirement.

I'm not sure to understand your solution. Would you have any documentation or tutorial that shows how it works?

(or an example)

RE: How to cancel a specific task process

cedric02 — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:57:29 GMT

Thank you, I'm going to try this.

RE: How to cancel a specific task process

Naresh — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:53:54 GMT

Yes, you can get process instance ID using pp!id (from expression editor you can type it will auto prompt for your selection if you are using latest version Appian)

RE: How to cancel a specific task process

cedric02 — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:48:08 GMT

Thank you Naresh. And before saving that process instance ID to a DB field, how I can get that instance Id ?

Once a process is launched, an ID is returned ?

RE: How to cancel a specific task process

Stefan Helzle — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:35:32 GMT

If this is a business requirement, I would add a receive message event to the model and then react accordingly to an incoming message sent from the other process. Just cancelling other processes or tasks is typically not a good idea.

RE: How to cancel a specific task process

Naresh — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:25:11 GMT

Hi,

You need to save your process instance ID in one of your DB column and using that process instance id you can cancel that particular process using cancel smart service or sending a message to that process