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  June 20, 2011 6:47:04 AM PDT

  AllWorkItem filter is not returning Completed Work items, is it the expected behaviour? how can i get the list of all work items through API, active, completed, error, overdue, suspended etc..
  
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  Mukesh
  

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  June 20, 2011 6:56:22 AM PDT

  Hi Mukesh,
  
  Which Interstage BPM version are you using?
  
  For version 7.4, you will need to use the AllCompletedWorkItems filter.  For newer versions (10.x.x and 11.x), the AllCompletedWorkItems has been deprecated and you will need to retrieve using the history entries.
  
  -Marc
  

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  June 20, 2011 7:04:46 AM PDT

  Hi Marc,
  
  i am using v11.1. I don't see any API to read history information, can you provide some details?
  
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  Mukesh
  

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• C.Y. Chen

  

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  June 20, 2011 7:40:27 AM PDT

  Mukesh,
  
  If you are only interested in all completed work items, you should follow Marc's advice on using the process history to recover the completed work items.  He will send you a sample code if you need one.  Thanks.
  
  I verified from v6.2 AE, v7.4 AE and v11.x.  Indeed, the Filter.AllWorkItems never includes the completed work items.  The behavior is as designed.
  

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  June 21, 2011 3:44:01 AM PDT

  This question seems to come up frequently so I am adding the solution to the forum.

   

  In version 7.4 and older, the "AllCompletedWorkItems" filter can be used to retrieve completed work items.  However, for newer versions (10.x and 11.x) this filter is not recommended for usage and instead to retrieve completed work item history from the history entries.  The developer's guide explains how to achieve this within "Section 8.1 Retrieving History Information with the model API". Using ProcessInstance.getHistory() is the basis to retrieve all the history data by passing in an array of the history fields.  You can find more information on the history fields from the ProcessInstance interface (details can be found from java docs).

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