topic Re: Set Task Assignee based on package assoc to user in Alfresco Archive

Set Task Assignee based on package assoc to user

boneill — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:12:10 GMT

Hi All,I have a custom workflow that has a review and approve task. Each task needs to be carried out by a different user.We have created our own custom task that has an additional aspect for the approver. The user can set the reviewer (bpm_assignee) and approver (wf_approver) on the start task.

Re: Set Task Assignee based on package assoc to user

amitabhandari1 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 11:56:22 GMT

Hi,

You can set the value in the starttask of process definition.
Use executionContext.setVariable("bpm_assignee","abc");
Use executionContext.setVariable("wf_approver,"xyz");

Below snippet is given:
<start-state name="start">
    <task name="XXXX" swimlane="initiator" >
          <event type="task-end">
               <action class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.jbpm.AlfrescoJavaScript">
                  <script>
                   executionContext.setVariable("wf_approver,"xyz");
                       executionContext.setVariable("bpm_assignee","abc");
                  </script>
       </action>
          </event>
</task>

When you have to use these values you can put as mentioned below in review task.
<assignment class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.jbpm.AlfrescoAssignment">
               <actor>#{wf_approver}</actor>
      </assignment>
     </event>

Thanks,

Re: Set Task Assignee based on package assoc to user

boneill — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:10:56 GMT

Thanks Amita,

I am using activiti. Do you know if you can do the same in activiti.

BTW, I found a solution as follows:

The start task model type had two mandatory aspects, bpm_assignee and wf_approver, each of which are associations to person.
Each subsequent task had to also include these as mandatory aspects in their content type model. That was the piece we were missing. The workflow passes the set bpm_assignee and wf_approver values from the start task through to the other tasks so long as the other tasks also include them as mandatory aspects in their model types.

Regards