topic Getting the user of a workflow task in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/getting-the-user-of-a-workflow-task/m-p/209101#M162231 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am trying to get at the username of the user executing an action in a advanced workflow. I want to add the name of the user adding the comment in workflow where stakeholders can give their comments. This should be simple right? Well..</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>After a lot of messing about with Javascript, I gave up on that and decided to try my luck implementing an action in Java. But still no luck. I am a bit out of ideas right now. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This is the obvious solution, but that doesn't work.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />&lt;task-node name="stakeHolderReview"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;task name="odmswf:stakeHolderReview"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;assignment class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.jbpm.AlfrescoAssignment"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;actor&gt;#{stakeholder}&lt;/actor&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/assignment&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;transition name="Approve" to="endStakeholderReview"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;action class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.jbpm.AlfrescoJavaScript"&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;script&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;variable name="odmswf_stakeholderComments" access="read,write" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;variable name="odmswf_stakeholderName" access="read" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;variable name="odmswf_comment" access="read,write" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;variable name="bpm_outcome" access="read" /&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;expression&gt;&lt;![CDATA[<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; odmswf_stakeholderComments += taskInstance.actorId+" : " +bpm_outcome+ " : " +odmswf_comment+ "\n\n";<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; odmswf_comment = "";<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ]]&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/expression&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/script&gt;<BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/action&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <BR />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/transition&gt;<BR />&lt;/task-node&gt;<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>Which gets me a nice: </SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />Caused by: org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: ReferenceError: "taskInstance" is not defined. (AlfrescoScript#1)<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>Anybody know how to get at the name of the user executing a transition or task?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:49:15 GMT m_vriens 2009-01-06T09:49:15Z Getting the user of a workflow task https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/getting-the-user-of-a-workflow-task/m-p/209101#M162231 Hi all,I am trying to get at the username of the user executing an action in a advanced workflow. I want to add the name of the user adding the comment in workflow where stakeholders can give their comments. This should be simple right? Well..After a lot of messing about with Javascript, I gave up o Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:49:15 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/getting-the-user-of-a-workflow-task/m-p/209101#M162231 m_vriens 2009-01-06T09:49:15Z Re: Getting the user of a workflow task https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/getting-the-user-of-a-workflow-task/m-p/209102#M162232 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>A transition is between nodes, and tasks are *within* nodes. When you're on a transition, the task is already completed and existed (technically, there can be more than one task in a same node in JBPM).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote">Anybody know how to get at the name of the user executing a transition or task?</BLOCKQUOTE><BR /><SPAN>There's a "person" variable giving you the "current user" (and if it has a home space, you also have a "userhome" variable)</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:18:16 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/getting-the-user-of-a-workflow-task/m-p/209102#M162232 t_broyer 2009-01-06T11:18:16Z