Suspends the process instances with the given process definition id. This means that the execution is stopped, so the token state will not change. However, actions that do not change token state, like setting/removing variables, etc. will succeed.
Tasks belonging to the suspended process instance will also be suspended. This means that any actions influencing the tasks' lifecycles will fail, such as
If a process instance is in state suspended, the engine will also not execute jobs (timers, messages) associated with this instance.
If you have a process instance hierarchy, suspending one process instance from the hierarchy will not suspend other process instances from that hierarchy.
@throws ProcessEngineException if no such processInstance can be found. | |