Hi, This is related with issue https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-kogito-runtimes/issues/3495 We have one user which would like to reuse the result of one workflow execution (let's call this workflow of type A) as input of several workflows (lets call them workflows of type B)
Workflow A is executed before all B workflows. Then B workflows are manually executed by users. The desired input of B workflows should be a merge of what the user provides when performing the start request and the output of workflow A. In order to achieve this, it is expected that users include, in the start request of workflow of type B, the process instance id of workflow A (so rather than taking the output of A and merging it for every call, they just pass the process instance id) In order for this approach to work, output of workflow A has to be stored somewhere in the DB (Currently runtimes DB only stores active process information). Since we do not want all process to keep their output information in the DB (only workflows of type A), workflows of type A has to be identified somehow But before entering into more implementation details, which I would like to know is if this is a valid case both for BPMN or not. The implementation implications are pretty relevant. If a valid use case for both BPMN and SWF, we can implement this functionality in the kogito core, there we can take advantage of existing persistence addons and add the newly required storage there. If not, we need to provide a SWF specific addon for each existing persistence add-on with the additional storage. Let's share your thoughts. Thanks in advance.
