Role Management

[nib]

Hallo,

is it possible to assign roles and not user names to tasks in processes? In this case how do I assign user names to roles?

NiB

[nib]

P.S.: I don't mean swimlanes because you have to assign user names to every process and in my application user names change in time.

[dslevine]

Do the users change over time or just the user names? Are you using the default jBPM identity module to manage users or a different one?

[nib]

Both :-)

Default module.

[cocampo]

AFAIK, it is not possible to assign roles to tasks. However, you can assign roles to pooledActors property, and then let your app pick the correct user and assign him to the task instance.

BTW, remember that in some point there is no difference between roles and users; e.g., you can assign roles AND users to the pooledActors property, and that would be fine.

Regards.

[cocampo]

To assign users to roles, you only need to insert the corresponding data in tables JBPM_ID_GROUP, JBPM_ID_MEMBERSHIP (which is nothing but a join table between users and roles, as you mas see in the Wiki).

Regards.

[nib]

Yes i see that might be possible. Nevertheless for a real business application not acceptable. Has anyone developed a replacement for this role model?

[kukeltje]

why 'not acceptable'? To little functionality? If so, then look in the forums for posts on exchanging the the identity model.