topic Re: Get $INITIATOR name in Alfresco Archive

Get $INITIATOR name

stb — Tue, 24 May 2016 08:59:58 GMT

Hi, in version 5.19+, ${initiator} was refering to initiator's name, but with version 6.Beta2, it only returns initiator's id. What's the best way to get his name. I need it for sending emails for instance.Thanks in advance, Best regards

Re: Get $INITIATOR name

jbarrez — Tue, 31 May 2016 10:08:17 GMT

It's indeed the id, you will need to use the userservice to actually find the user + its email. (you can inject the UserService in your custom service task bean for example).

Re: Get $INITIATOR name

stb — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 12:46:39 GMT

Hi,

thank you very much for the answer. I still couldn't find initiator lastName work until I discovered that the users were created in 'ACT_ID_USER' table but not in "USERS" table as the admin, and my initiator being admin (in USERS), no way to get his infos! A related issue is User creation which cannot be automated neither with the API, nor the REST API which uses the same table. Will these tables be merged in version 6.0 as the API so far seems uncomplete and not fully usable (if I understand well!).

>It's indeed the id, you will need to use the userservice to actually find the user + its email. (you can inject the UserService in your custom service task bean for example).
I've used this Groovy snippet in a Script Task, creating a new user.
<code>
def user = identityService.newUser("100");
user.setFirstName("John");
user.setLastName("Bar");
//…
identityService.saveUser(user);

def query = identityService.createUserQuery().userId("100");
def res =query?.singleResult();
println "id = ${res?.getId()}, firstName = ${res?.getFirstName()}"
</code>

By UserService, were you refering to IdentityService?
I don't understand the sentence "you can inject the UserService in your custom service task bean for example". I've searched in User Guide, but don't have a clue about where to start, sorry.

Thanks again,

Re: Get $INITIATOR name

jbarrez — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 08:06:39 GMT

I'm not sure I'm following - the Activiti 6 UI does not use the 'old' tables, all should be in USERS.
But i do understand the confusion - this is something we'll want to fix soon and make sure the identity service works irregardless.

Re: Get $INITIATOR name

stb — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 08:21:15 GMT

Hi,

thanks for your answer.
>I'm not sure I'm following - the Activiti 6 UI does not use the 'old' tables, all should be in USERS.
But, I created a simple Script Task in Activiti 6beta2 (and a clone of beta3) Modeler, and pasted the above code there… and Users are always created in ACT_ID_USER !
Maybe I missed something in configuration ?!

> But i do understand the confusion - this is something we'll want to fix soon and make sure the identity service works irregardless.
This will be welcomed indeed!

Best Regards

Re: Get $INITIATOR name

jbarrez — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 11:04:20 GMT

>and Users are always created in ACT_ID_USER !

Yes. The engine goes to ACT_ID_USER for default user creation. The UI goes to USERS. That's exactly the confusion.