topic Re: Assign user from specific group in Alfresco Archive

Assign user from specific group

buurd — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:12:36 GMT

Hi!I have a workflow where the user of the "current swimlane" is supposed to tell who the user of the "next swimlane" is. The users didn't like the search, it was to many posibilities to make choose the wrong person among the 2000 people that we have. So, I thinking that I somehow can limit the numb

Re: Assign user from specific group

lucille_arkenst — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:17:18 GMT

I really want to answer your question but I am now getting an error "There are no workflows currently deployed in the repository, press Cancel to exit the wizard."
Anyhow… usually when the user gets to choose, they can enter the first three letters of a person's name and then a list comes up for them to choose from. This didn't narrow their search enough? Or did you code it such that they didn't get a search box?
I'd suggest to look at parallel_group_review.xml… this allows the person to select a group. Once you figure out how this works the next step would be to automatically grab the results of this, as if the user selected a group.
HTH

Re: Assign user from specific group

buurd — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:18:06 GMT

The problem is that we have many employees with the same name, eg John Smith if we had been in GB or USA. So from the 2000 people we have in Alfresco it is simply not good enough to search. We have to limit the possible error to atleast stay in the intended group. They actually prefer a pooled task since the task atleast stays in the group.

So basically they want to choose from the members of the group, either from a list or by search, but they can't accept that users that not belonging to the group gets assigned to the task.