Starting A Process Instance

Starting a Process Instance

Now that we have deployed the model, we can use the Camera to start a process. It’s as simple as pressing the second button on your camera board! You should see the bright Flash LED come on and then the camera will take a picture.

This picture will then be sent to a server process (that is running on my cloud server) and that server process will start your process instance with the picture you took.

Note: At the present time there is no mechanism for displaying the picture in-line in your form. This is a current shortcoming of the Camunda Platform 8 Forms implementation but I have submitted a feature request to the Camunda Platform team to have this added. For now, your form will have an un-editable field that contains the complete URL to your picture. You can copy/paste this URL into a new browser tab to see the picture.

If you go to the Operate Tab in C8, you should now see a running instance of your process: