What is the usage of ProcessEngine.setAuthenticatedUserId

[newbeewan]

Hi,

I looking for a solution to find "processInstance started by a particular user".

I was thinking that using a user authenticate processEngine will let some information on every process but it doesn't seem to be right !

So I have 2 questions :

- What is the real utility of the authenticatedUserId ?

- Is it possible to find some process instanciate by a particular user ?  HistoryService doesn't seem to be able to do it !

Regards

[rebody]

Hi Jaber,

  Actually, jBPM 4.3 didn't record the starter of process instances.  Maybe you could join our discussion for this feature.  There is the post url:

http://community.jboss.org/thread/150854?tstart=0

  And the setAuthenticatedUserId() method used ThreadLocal to store the userId.  It could transfer the login userId from outside of process engine to inside.  So the component in process engine could use this userId to do something.

[newbeewan]

Thanks for your reply !

That's a real problem for the application I'm working on !

As my actual needs are really light, I will extend the processEngine, the executionservice, historyservice and add an entity to hibernate to make it possible.

It's only a quick and dirty wrapper without internal pvm modification !

Regards