Way to get the activity label/name of a Job?

Camunda 7 Topics Discussion & Questions
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What is the best way to get the label/name of a activity/element that is being processed by a Job?

Example:
I have the following Timer job:

[
  {
    "id": "27cb51db-2a91-11e7-8c5b-0242ac110002",
    "jobDefinitionId": "2044707c-2a91-11e7-8c5b-0242ac110002",
    "processInstanceId": "2309f91e-2a91-11e7-8c5b-0242ac110002",
    "processDefinitionId": "Reminder:108:2044707a-2a91-11e7-8c5b-0242ac110002",
    "processDefinitionKey": "Reminder",
    "executionId": "27a77629-2a91-11e7-8c5b-0242ac110002",
    "exceptionMessage": null,
    "retries": 3,
    "dueDate": "2017-09-21T10:01:57",
    "suspended": false,
    "priority": 0,
    "tenantId": null
  }
]

I would like to pull back the name/label of the timer in the process definition, so more context can be provided about this job.

Is there a relatively clean way to do this?

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Hi Stephen,

Via the job definition you can get the activity id and then you can use that look up any properties from the BPMN XML.

Cheers,
Thorben

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Ah! okay, did not think to look at the job definition! Thanks @thorben

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