RE: Getting a WfResource for a Group

As a follow-up:

My first set of code doesn't actually work quite right.  It will only
work if the user (in this case "UserInGroupOne") has been assigned work.
The ExecutionAdministration.getResource() method only gets a _Resource_,
NOT a _User_.  Thus, it will not be able to assign work to someone who
never has had work assigned to them.

This leads me to believe I'm doing this all wrong.  

I tried using the ArbitraryExpression swimlane and the
XPDLStraightParticipantAssignmentManager.  Once the WRD was set, that
would assign the work to a resource named whatever was in the WRD, but
when the server went to reevaluateAssignments, it always threw a
"expression can not be evaluated" on these assignments because it
appeared to create a new resource entry but that entry was not linked to
the user or group in anyway.

I can't believe I would be the only person that wants to assign an
activity to a group of people.

If anyone has any hints, I'm desperate for clues.

Greg


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dahl, Greg (BLM) - contr 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 8:46 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [shark] Getting a WfResource for a Group
> 
> 
> The following code works fine if I want to assign an activity 
> to an individual user:
> 
>             	//set the assignment.
>             	WfAssignmentIterator wfai = 
> currentActivity.get_iterator_assignment();
>             	WfAssignment assignment = wfai.get_next_object();
>             	WfResource currentResource 	= assignment.assignee();
>             	System.out.println("This activity is currently 
> assigned to " + currentResource.resource_name());
>             	WfResource newResource 	=
> sharkExecutionAdministration.getResource("UserInGroupOne");
>             	assignment.set_assignee(newResource);
> 
> But, if I try using similar code to try to get a group:
> 
>             	WfResource newResource 	=
> sharkExecutionAdministration.getResource("GroupOne");
> 
> The resource is null.
> 
> I would like to be able to assign groups dynamically but 
> without getting a reference to the group, I can't figure out 
> how to do so.
> 
> Any ideas or is there a different API call I should be using?
> 
> Thanks,
> Greg
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