Can I use assignment expressions with action?

[danielywoo]

In a process definition I add an email action to the transition to the end state node,

 <task-node name="manager-evaluation">
 <transition to="rejected" name="reject"></transition>
 <transition to="approved" name="approve">
 <mail name="mail-notify-applicant" actors="swimlane(users)"></mail>
 </transition>
 </task-node>

 <end-state name="approved"></end-state>

 <end-state name="rejected"></end-state>

it seems that the mail action can only specify "actors" or "to", can I use assignment expressions like swimlane(users)?

[kukeltje]

no, sorry. The mail attribute 'actors' needs to be made EL aware for this. You can do that yourself in the source, it is not to difficult. The source contains enough attributes that can server as an example (e.g. the sub-process name)

[danielywoo]

It would be great if the mail node/action can support "pooled actors", "swimlane" and "expression".

Anyway, do you mean that I need to get all the actor ids from swimlane's assignment in process definition and set it into JSF page as an EL expression like ${actors} in pageScope, then sepcify #{actors} in the actors field of mail node/action?

[kukeltje]

no, I meant to change the source of jBPM...