topic Direct Task Assignment in Alfresco Archive

Direct Task Assignment

tfitzpatrick — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:18:24 GMT

I have a need to directly assign a task to a user from a variable and was looking for an example.I have tried a number of variations of something like this:taskInstance.actorId = varUser;unfortunately the combinations of assignments that I have used has caused the workflows to go off into space and

Re: Direct Task Assignment

tfitzpatrick — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:25:40 GMT

Solved:

The goal was to take a value determined in another node and pass that along the workflow so that the next node would be assigned to the right person. The variable that I used was "Next Participant". After looking deeper into the issue, I found a couple of other ways that I can accomplish the same thing which I need to explore in greater detail…

    <swimlane name="Peer">
        <assignment class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.jbpm.AlfrescoAssignment"> 
           <!– <actor>#{people.getPerson("tom").properties["cm:userName"]}</actor> –>
           <actor>#{people.getPerson(NextParticipant).properties["cm:userName"]}</actor>
        </assignment>
    </swimlane>
    
   <task-node name="Awaiting Doc Review">
       <task name="ygrd:awaitingDocReview" swimlane="Peer"/>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Re: Direct Task Assignment

tfitzpatrick — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:13:27 GMT

As mentioned in my earlier posts there are a number of ways to directly assign a task to a user and below you will find another solution.

   <task-node name="Awaiting Doc Review">
         <task name="ygrd:awaitingDocReview">
            <assignment class="org.alfresco.repo.workflow.jbpm.AlfrescoAssignment">
               <actor>#{people.getPerson(NextParticipant).properties["cm:userName"]}</actor>
            </assignment>‍‍‍‍‍