topic Re: Task assignee is a number and not the user Name in Alfresco Archive

Task assignee is a number and not the user Name

srojas1 — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 20:24:56 GMT

HiI have Activiti synced with LDAP (users and groups).Using the Engine Java API I query for a Task and get the assignee. My surprise is that the assignee is a number and not the username I logged in with. I would like to know how to get the username also referred in Activiti as "External Id" from th

Re: Task assignee is a number and not the user Name

srojas1 — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 11:56:49 GMT

Hi Guys.

Any one had the chance to have a look into it please? Feel free to ask me for clarification if you do not understand my problem. Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks in advance and Regards

Sergio

Re: Task assignee is a number and not the user Name

srojas1 — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 15:45:37 GMT

Hi All

Just figured it out myself. So the way of doing it is by using the UserService. I copy here my code in case is useful for any other person:

package com.activiti.extension.bean;

import org.activiti.engine.impl.pvm.delegate.ActivityExecution;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import com.activiti.service.api.UserService;

@Component("obtainDrafter")
public class ObtainDrafter {

@Autowired
protected UserService userService;

public void giveDrafter(ActivityExecution execution) {

long userId = new Long((Long)execution.getVariable("assignToDrafterdrafter")).longValue();
String externalUserName = userService.findUser(userId).getExternalId();
execution.setVariable("drafter", externalUserName);

}

}

Re: Task assignee is a number and not the user Name

jbarrez — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 19:24:00 GMT

Hi @srojas, moved this topic to 'Activiti Enterprise', the Activiti Developers is for internal development of Activiti.

There is also an alternative way: you can use the userInfoBean to resolve this id to a real user: https://docs.alfresco.com/activiti/docs/dev-guide/1.3.2/#_user_info_bean_userinfobean

The externalId you talk about above is the actual id in the user store. However, internally, only the db id is used for everything.

Re: Task assignee is a number and not the user Name

mohitsi — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:55:02 GMT

how to give external id to a user manually ?

Re: Task assignee is a number and not the user Name

jbarrez — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 12:17:35 GMT

You'd have to use the lower level services, get hold of the User entity and change the externalId that way. (for example via the UserService or UserRepository)