CMMN How to execute a Case Task while maintaining the InstanceId of the parent flow

BPMN & Modeling Discussion & Questions
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How you could during the execution of a flow, call a Case Task where, when running the same, keep the businessKey and the instanceId of the main flow.

I have a very huge flow and I want (need) to make “divide and conquer” in order to make easiest the implementation and testing. I tried to make smaller flows and used case task, but when a case task activates it changed the caseInstanceId and then I have no way of known what task are executing or what is their state.

Anyone can help me?

(sorry if my english is not very good)

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You can define the business key of a called process or case instance in XML. Furthermore, you can use an expression to copy the business key from the calling to the called process or case instance. See https://docs.camunda.org/manual/7.7/reference/bpmn20/subprocesses/call-activity/#passing-business-key for an example.

You can’t copy the instance id, though, as those are generated by the engine and required to be unique.

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