topic Re: Get process's initiator username from Java class in Alfresco Archive

Get process's initiator username from Java class

jsalvador — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 14:23:54 GMT

Hi folks!I'm using Activiti with Alfresco Community (currently AC 5.1). I'm working in some workflows, and few of them have an userTask that needs to be assigneed to an especific user, taked from a database.Example: some users need their tasks must be approved by User A, and some users need their ta

Re: Get process's initiator username from Java class

jsalvador — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 16:21:44 GMT

Ok, I guess I find a solution, but it isn't the good way…

1. I added a ScriptTask with this code, BEFORE my ServiceTask:
<code>
execution.setVariable("workflow_starter", initiator.properties.userName);
</code>

2. Into my Java ServiceTask, I added the following code:
<java>
String userName =(String) execution.getVariable("workflow_starter");
</java>

And my query uses the <code>userName</code> variable to get the reviewer. Not clean, but works.

Re: Get process's initiator username from Java class

jbarrez — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 10:02:55 GMT

hmm, if the initiator.properties.userName is available just before the service task, it should be available to in the service task.
Is there anything special about your process why it would remove that variable?

Re: Get process's initiator username from Java class

jsalvador — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 12:00:12 GMT

Hi Joram, nice to see you here.

Well, at the first try, I tried to get the workflow starter's username by <code>execution.getVariable("initiator.properties.userName");</code> but it doesn't work, and I get an ActivitiException here. So I need to try other solutions. As I said, this is not the best way to do it.

Update.

And now I see the error… I wasn't casting the value as String.

Re: Get process's initiator username from Java class

alramlo — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:11:04 GMT

You can access to the initiator using this code in a ExecutionListener implementation:

ActivitiScriptNode initiatorScriptNode = (ActivitiScriptNode) execution.getVariable("initiator");
NodeRef initiatorNodeRef = initiatorScriptNode.getNodeRef();‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Sorry for the delay