topic How to access assignee inside multi instance userTask in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-access-assignee-inside-multi-instance-usertask/m-p/100292#M69466 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have been racking my brains over the following problem the last couple of days and can't find any documentation about how to go forward. I have made slight changes to the activiti parallel review task in Alfresco, which works like a charm, accept for the fact that I can't seem to accesss that "local" assignee in the multi instance review task.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>As far as I understand it, the flow of the vars is as follows:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- bpm_assignees contains a collection of the selected users which is broken down into assignees using the multiInstanceLoopCharacteristics element:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;multiInstanceLoopCharacteristics isSequential="false" activiti:collection="bpm_assignees" activiti:elementVariable="reviewAssignee"&gt;&lt;/multiInstanceLoopCharacteristics&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><SPAN>Each member of the bpm_assignees collection is then assigned to the process variable reviewAssignee.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>In the userTask I have added the activiti:assignee parameter to map the process (username property) value of reviewAssignee to the task's assignee:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>&lt;userTask id="alfrescoUsertask1" name="Review" activiti:assignee="${reviewAssignee.properties.userName}" activiti:formKey="wf:activitiReviewTask"&gt;<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>Now, after the multi-instance userTask I have a mailTask with a script to send a mail to the iniator about the outcome in which I'd like to use the assignee's name (John Doe said: Approve e.g.):</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>mail.parameters.text = assignee + " said: " + wf_reviewOutcome + "\n"<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><SPAN>No matter what I do, I allways end up with an error saying "ReferenceError: "assignee" is not defined" (or whatever variable I substitute assignee for, like reviewAssignee or bpm_assignee e.g.)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>How can the assignee (process) variable be transported from the multi-instance userTask to the mailTask?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 08 May 2012 09:34:05 GMT mrvanes1 2012-05-08T09:34:05Z How to access assignee inside multi instance userTask https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-access-assignee-inside-multi-instance-usertask/m-p/100292#M69466 I have been racking my brains over the following problem the last couple of days and can't find any documentation about how to go forward. I have made slight changes to the activiti parallel review task in Alfresco, which works like a charm, accept for the fact that I can't seem to accesss that "loc Tue, 08 May 2012 09:34:05 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-access-assignee-inside-multi-instance-usertask/m-p/100292#M69466 mrvanes1 2012-05-08T09:34:05Z Re: How to access assignee inside multi instance userTask https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-access-assignee-inside-multi-instance-usertask/m-p/100293#M69467 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I think what you're looking for is a multi-instance sub process.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>In that sub process you can then include a user task and the mail task.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Because they are in the same multi-instance sub process you can share local variables.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best regards,</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 May 2012 09:19:49 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-access-assignee-inside-multi-instance-usertask/m-p/100293#M69467 trademak 2012-05-09T09:19:49Z Re: How to access assignee inside multi instance userTask https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-access-assignee-inside-multi-instance-usertask/m-p/100294#M69468 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks Tijs for the answer, this was exactly the push in the right direction I needed!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 May 2012 19:38:35 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/how-to-access-assignee-inside-multi-instance-usertask/m-p/100294#M69468 mrvanes1 2012-05-09T19:38:35Z