pooled-actors vs actor-id

[fshahy]

Hi
I have created a business process and started my tasks using actor-id in process definition
and setting actor ID in my authenticator method.

public boolean authenticate()
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if (customerManager.loginCustomer(credentials.getUsername(), credentials.getPassword()))
{
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actor.setId(credentials.getUsername());
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}
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in process definition I have:

     <task-node name="submit-number">
          <task name="submit-number">
               <assignment actor-id="#{actor.id}" />
          </task>
          <transition to="check-number" name="next"/>
     </task-node>

The problem is how to prevent a user from starting a specific task which
must be started by admin, so I tried pooled-actors.
I changed actor-id to pooled-actors in process definition

     <task-node name="submit-number">
          <task name="submit-number">
               <assignment pooled-actors="customer" />
          </task>
          <transition to="check-number" name="next"/>
     </task-node>

     <task-node name="check-number">
          <task name="check-number">
               <assignment pooled-actors="admin" />
          </task>
          <transition to="end-state1" name="complete"/>
     </task-node>

and in my authenticator method:

actor.getGroupActorIds().add("customer");
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actor.getGroupActorIds().add("admin");

having this, my process starts bu none of users can see their processes.

Can anybody help please.

[kukeltje.ronald.jbpm.org]

bu none of users can see their processes.

See them where? in a pooled tasklist?

[fshahy]

I used

<h:dataTable value="#{pooledTaskInstanceList}" var="task">

and

<h:dataTable value="#{taskInstanceList}" var="task">

but none of them has the task.

[kukeltje.ronald.jbpm.org]

works for me... can you use e.g. the jbpm console or look in the database directly, or write some code to see the value of the pooled-actors? Or is the task e.g. not saved in the database at all?

[fshahy]

Hi Ronald
It worked fine. Thanks

[kukeltje.ronald.jbpm.org]

But now I'm curious to why it did not seem to work. Care to elaborate a little