Retain history for terminated process instance

Flowable Engine
1

We need to terminate some of the running process instances, however, we need to retain the history.

runtimeService.deleteProcessInstance terminates the process instance and history.

Is there a option to retain the history for the terminated process instance?

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Hi,

runtimeService.deleteProcessInstance deletes process instance, but its history is kept.

@Test
@Deployment(resources = { "org/flowable/engine/test/history/oneTaskProcess.bpmn20.xml" })
public void testDeleteProcessInstanceHistoryCreated() {
    ProcessInstance processInstance = runtimeService.startProcessInstanceByKey("oneTaskProcess");
    assertNotNull(processInstance);

    // delete process instance should not delete the history
    runtimeService.deleteProcessInstance(processInstance.getId(), "cancel");
    
    waitForHistoryJobExecutorToProcessAllJobs(7000, 100);
    
    HistoricProcessInstance historicProcessInstance = historyService.createHistoricProcessInstanceQuery().processInstanceId(processInstance.getId()).singleResult();
    assertNotNull(historicProcessInstance.getEndTime());
}

Regards
Martin

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Thanks martin you are right.
I am looking at different place.