How can I write data about process assignees to database - camunda

I use camunda 7.2.0 and i'm not very experienced with it. I'm trying to write data about users, who had done something with process instance to database (i'm using rest services) to get some kind of reports later. The problem is that i don't know how to trigger my rest(that sends information to datebase about current user and assignee) when user assignes task to somebody else or claims task to himself. I see that camunda engine sends request like
link: engine/engine/default/task/5f965ab7-e74b-11e4-a710-0050568b5c8a/assignee
post: {"userId":"Tom"}
As partial solution I can think about creating a global variable "currentUser" and on form load check if user is different from current, and if he is - run the rest and change variable. But this solution don't looks correct to me. So is there any better way to do it? Thanks in advance

You could use a task listener which updates your data when the assignee of a task is changed. If you want this behavior for every task you could define a global task listener.

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Camunda Rest API: Cannot fetch and lock an External Task for a Tenant

I have a Process Instance that was started by the Tenant 949.
I tried to fetch and lock that Task, like described here: https://docs.camunda.org/manual/7.10/reference/rest/external-task/fetch/
Here is the Body of the Request:
{"workerId":"testUser","maxTasks":1,"usePriority":false,
"topics":[
{"topicName":"archive-document","tenantIdIn":["949"],"lockDuration":10000,"localVariables":true,"deserializeValues":false}
]}
I don't get any Task with it.
The same request works if the Process Instance is started without a Tenant and fetched accordingly.
Do I miss something, or is this a Bug of Camunda?
Have you attempted to simply do a query to first retrieve the task? (Rather than attempting to fetch it and lock it?) You could use this endpoint: https://docs.camunda.org/manual/7.10/reference/rest/external-task/get-query/.
You may also want to query the runtime database directly using SQL. Your External Task would be in the ACT_RU_EXT_TASK table and would have a TOPIC_NAME_ defined within it (as well as a TENANT_ID_).
The problem was the Authentication.
I had a different User to start the process and to fetch the Task.
And this User had no rights to fetch the Task for this Tenant.

Camunda History and Audit Event Log, I can't query any history data

I have been running Camunda with MariaDB, it's a good solution
but I have a problem, I saw the Camunda User Guide that describes History and Audit Event Log, so I write some codes as follows:
List historyList = historyService.createHistoricProcessInstanceQuery().finished().processDefinitionId("Sample1").list();
int historySize = historyList.size();
LOGGER.info("historyList size=" + historySize);
I have finished the Sample1 Process, but the historySize still is zero, I think I lost some configuration, how can I do?
Wnat's difference between Runtime Database and Histort Database? do I need to install two Databases?
Thank you
I solved the Problem by using processDefinitionKey
I passed processDefinitionKey to processDefinitionId, no wonder it can't get all finished instances of a process
I can get all finished instances of a process using correct processDefinitionId or processDefinitionKey

Migrate ColdFusion scheduled tasks using neo-cron.xml

We currently have two ColdFusion 10 dedicated servers which we are migrating to a single VPS server. We have many scheduled tasks on each. I have taken each of the neo-cron.xml files and copied the var XML elements, from within the struct type='coldfusion.server.ConfigMap' XML element, and pasted them within that element in the neo-cron.xml file on the new server. Afterward I restarted the ColdFusion service, log into cf admin, and the tasks all show as expected.
My problem is, when I try to update any of the tasks I get the following error when saving:
An error occured scheduling the task. Unable to store Job :
'SERVERSCHEDULETASK#$%^DEFAULT.job_MAKE CATALOGS (SITE CONTROL)',
because one already exists with this identification
Also, when I try to delete a task it tells me a task with that name does not exist. So it seems to me that the task information must also be stored elsewhere. So there when I try to update a task, the record doesn't exist in the secondary location so it tries to add it new to the neo-cron.xml file, which causes an error because it already exists. And when trying to delete, it doesn't exist in the secondary location so it says a task with that name does not exist. That is just a guess though.
Any ideas how I can get this to work without manually re-creating dozens of tasks? From what I've read this should work, but I need to be able to edit the tasks.
Thank you.
After a lot of hair-pulling I was able to figure out the problem. It all boiled down to having parentheses in the scheduled task names. This was causing both the "Unable to store Job : 'SERVERSCHEDULETASK#$%^DEFAULT.job_MAKE CATALOGS (SITE CONTROL)', because one already exists with this identification" error and also causing me to be unable to delete jobs. I believe it has something to do with encoding the parentheses because the actual neo-cron.xml name attribute of the var element encodes the name like so:
serverscheduletask#$%^default#$%^MAKE CATALOGS (SITE CONTROL)
Note that this anomaly did not exist on ColdFusion 10, Update 10, but does exist on Update 13. I'm not sure which update broke it, but there you go.
You will have to copy the neo-cron.xml from C:\ColdFusion10\\lib of one server to another. After that restart the server to make the changes effective. Login to the CF Admin and check the functionality.
This should work.
Note:- Please take a backup of the existing neo-cron.xml, before making the changes.

how do i update my db data(mongodb) after fixed interval of time using django?

My User collection contains data such as
{"user1":"zera",
"my_status":"active",
"date_creation" : ISODate("2013-10-01T10:15:52.055Z")
}
{"user2":"dfgf",
"my_status":"noactive",
"date_creation": ISODate("2013-10-01T08:55:41.212Z")
}
I need to find each user with my_status :"active" and update their my_status after 24 hours from each user's date_creation.
Can anyone suggest a method to do it using django?
Well, I'd write an async task to keep polling the database to check for users with active status. If the user is active, update their status.
For the asynchronous tasks, you can use python-rq but to make things easier there's a django module for python-rq, it's django-rq. Also, Celery is another popular and good option. There's also a module for Django, you can find it here.

Updating a hit counter when an image is accessed in Django

I am working on doing some simple analytics on a Django webstite (v1.4.1). Seeing as this data will be gathered on pretty much every server request, I figured the right way to do this would be with a piece of custom middleware.
One important metric for the site is how often given images are accessed. Since each image is its own object, I thought about using django-hitcount, but figured that was unnecessary for what I was trying to do. If it proves easier, I may use it though.
The current conundrum I face is that I don't want to query the database and look for a given object for every HttpRequest that occurs. Instead, I would like to wait until a successful response (indicated by an HttpResponse.status of 200 or whatever), and then query the server and update a hit field for the corresponding image. The reason the only way to access the path of the image is in process_request, while the only way to access the status code is in process_response.
So, what do I do? Is it as simple as creating a class variable that can hold the path and then lookup the file once the response code of 200 is returned, or should I just use django-hitcount?
Thanks for your help
Set up a cron task to parse your Apache/Nginx/whatever access logs on a regular basis, perhaps with something like pylogsparser.
You could use memcache to store the counters and then periodically persist them to the database. There are risks that memcache will evict the value before it's been persisted but this could be acceptable to you.
This article provides more information and highlights a risk arising when using hosted memcache with keys distributed over multiple servers. http://bjk5.com/post/36567537399/dangers-of-using-memcache-counters-for-a-b-tests