topic Re: Changing workflow ownership in Alfresco Forum

Changing workflow ownership

jeremycod — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:54:59 GMT

Hi,Is it possible in custom workflow to change owner and how one can do that? It might also work if the ownership is assigned to the group instead of individual person. We want to cover scenario when the workflow creator have to leave for vacation or sick leave, and somebody else from the same group

Re: Changing workflow ownership

romschn — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 06:19:14 GMT

Have you taken a look at the out-of-the-box reassign functionality on workflow task?

Hope this helps.

Re: Changing workflow ownership

jeremycod — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 07:10:24 GMT

It doesn't work for us. It doesn't change workflow ownership, but only current task is re-assigned to other person. We need to solve situation when workflow owner is away and somebody else has to take that role.

Re: Changing workflow ownership

afaust — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 12:55:27 GMT

You would need to change the process variable for the workflow initiator which is used to determine "ownership" in terms of permission checks. Unfortunately there is no standard API to change that variable in Alfresco. You would have to get deep into the embedded Activiti APIs to change that...