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Can I get tasks of other user using REST API

hari — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 07:59:56 GMT

Hi, I am using Activiti Enterprise and I want to have a common basic authentication for all requests that I send from my application to Activiti. I am able to get the task list of User X when I pass basic authentication details of User X and similarly for other users but here I want to get tasks of

Re: Can I get tasks of other user using REST API

jbarrez — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:15:46 GMT

Yes, there is an 'assume user' feature. You use the credentials of a tenant manager or tenant admin,
and add the header 'activiti-user' with the user id/email/..
An additional header 'activiti-user-value-type' needs to be set to userIdType|userEmailType|userExternalIdType
to determine which kind of user id is passed.

Re: Can I get tasks of other user using REST API

hari — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:14:37 GMT

That was a perfect solution. Thank you so much.

For others who might just end up here searching for the same,
activiti-user I have given it as 3002 which is the id of the user in my case.
activiti-user-value-type I have given it as userIdType.