topic Re: Mechanism of management rights on the start of process? in Alfresco Archive

Mechanism of management rights on the start of process?

christoph_retti — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 08:21:31 GMT

Hi, I am on the way to upgrade from activiti 5.6 to 5.10 and found that there has been a change in https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-740adding the possibility to query users/groups that have the right to start a given process.As I implemented my own identity service like public class CspIdentity

Re: Mechanism of management rights on the start of process?

frederikherema1 — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 07:26:44 GMT

The introduced methods, related to who can start a process, aren't enforced by the engine itself. If you don't want to use this functionality, you don't need to. You can just ignore those methods on the identity-service and start processes anyway.

If you want to use the feature, you'll have to check IF a person can start a process yourself, through the API, before calling startProcessInstance(…).

Re: Mechanism of management rights on the start of process?

christoph_retti — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:10:43 GMT

Good to hear that the engine does not need this methods (at least right now)!

Anyway, I think this feature should not be in the identity service but rather be moved to the RepositoryService
where - at least in my optinion - it would better fit.

What do you think?

regards, Chris

Re: Mechanism of management rights on the start of process?

jbarrez — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 07:54:30 GMT

I think it's pretty hard to change this, as we would need to deprecate it, move it to the repo service and remove it again in two releases (that's our policy).
I think there are things to say for both approaches … and I don't have any particular preference, actually.