Submitted user variable & defining manager

[anzer]

Hi to all.

This is my first post here, so please be patient with me

I just stared developing Activiti (using version 5.5) workflow via Eclipse and I'm stuck by two things.

1. How to assign task to the manager of submitted user? Is it possible to set manager of the user via activiti-administrator? How can you hierarchically represent users?

2. In .form file I would like to display name of the user, who submitted the workflow. Which variable should I use? I looked through user-guide, but unfortunately didn't find anything about that.

thank you in advance

[trademak]

Hi,

1.There's no hierarchical manager-employee functionality, so you'll have to take care of this yourself. You could use for example a task listener to lookup the manager for a particular user and assign the task to the manager.
2. Please read the section in the user guide about start events and in particular the initiator attribute (http://activiti.org/userguide/index.html#bpmnStartEvents). That should do the trick.

Best regards,