Using variable in User task name

Flowable Engine
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I’m trying to have a dynamic user task name in Flowable Modeler. Basically, I have a user task and inside the name I’d like to display a date. For example: Wait For Task - ${startDate}. Variable startDate is existing.
So far I have tried following syntax but none of them works:

Wait For Task - ${startDate}
Wait For Task - #{startDate}

Whatever I try it’s just treating the whole name as a String.

@martin.grofcik Can you please advise what to do? Thanks.

2

That should work. Are you sure there is a process variable ‘startDate’ with a value at the time the user task is reached?

4

Actually, Wait For Task - #{startDate} this is changing the task name. So when you open the task, name will look like ‘Wait For Task - 2020-03-25’. But when I click on ‘Show process diagram’ it’s still displaying the static name ‘Wait For Task - #{startDate}’. I also need to display the date in the diagram, do you know if this is possible?

5

No, that’s not possible. The diagram is static and doesn’t do any expression resolving.

6

Thank you for the answer.