Re: Activities and Groups

> I could use participants in XPDL that are linked to
> a specific role.
 yes, i am using this (or say similar) approach

> When I load the package and process into Shark, I
> would have to map
> those participant roles to something.  What do you
> map yours to?

you can map participants to user or group in my
application it does not matter. but i prefer to assign
groups to participants because of our implementation
requirements. 

then user fetches activities. After fetching
activities I loop over activities and get
participantName(not username or groupname) for each
activity.
then make categorization based on these
participantNames

here is a simpler version of my code with low error
handling :)) 

by the i will appreciate way any comments/suggestions
on code 

public static void retrieveAssignmentsByRole() {
  SharkInterface si = cClient.getWorkflowServer();  //
getting shark interface
  SharkConnection conn = si.getSharkConnection();
  try {
    conn.connect(username, password, engine, "");
    WfResource wfres = conn.getResourceObject();
    WfAssignment[] wfasss =
wfres.get_sequence_work_item(0);
      for (int i = 0; i < wfasss.length; i++) {
        WfActivity wfa = wfasss[i].activity();
        String[] idss = getIdsFromActivty(wfa);    //
gives packageId,processId,participantId...
        String role = fetchActivityRole(idss[0],
idss[1], idss[2]);
        String roleName = getParticipantName(idss[0],
idss[1],role);
        System.out.println("role = " + role);
        System.out.println("roleName = " + roleName);
      }
    } catch (BaseException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (ConnectFailed connectFailed) {
      connectFailed.printStackTrace();
    } catch (NotConnected notConnected) {
      notConnected.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

public static String fetchActivityRole(String pkgId,
String procId, String activityID) {
  Package p = xmlInterface.getPackageById(pkgId);  //
xmlInterface = JaWE.getXMLInterface()
  WorkflowProcess wp = p.getWorkflowProcess(procId);
  Activity a = wp.getActivity(activityID);
  String participant = a.getParticipantID();
  return participant;
}

public static String getParticipantName(String
pkgId,String procId,String partId){
  String pName = "";
  Package pkg = xmlInterface.getPackageById(pkgId);
  Participants participants =
(Participants)pkg.get("Participants");
  if(participants != null){
    Participant participant =
participants.getParticipant(partId);
    if(participant != null) pName =
participant.get("Name").toString();
  }else{
    WorkflowProcess wp =
pkg.getWorkflowProcess(procId);
    participants =
(Participants)wp.get("Participants");
    if(participants != null){
      Participant participant =
participants.getParticipant(partId);
      if(participant != null) pName =
participant.get("Name").toString();
    }
  }
  return pName;
}

--- "Dahl, Greg (BLM) - contr"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the response.  
> I was wondering if you could give me a few more
> details about how you're
> solving your problem.
> 
> After giving it more thought, this is what I thought
> of:
> 
> I could use participants in XPDL that are linked to
> a specific role.
> 
> When I load the package and process into Shark, I
> would have to map
> those participant roles to something.  What do you
> map yours to?  I
> could map them to a "generic" Shark user id that
> actually represents an
> entire group of people.
> 
> I would then have to map my "real" users to one(or
> many) "generic" Shark
> user ids.  Then, my application's code would take
> the "real" user id,
> look up which "generic" id to use (in our own
> database table) and then
> log into Shark with that "generic" id.
> 
> The two problems I see with that solution are:
> 
> 1. What if the user belongs to multiple groups - in
> order to get _all_
> of their work, I've got to loop through all the
> "generic" ids they are
> associated with and make multiple calls into Shark -
> one call for each
> "generic" id.
> 
> 2. It seems to defeat the purpose of having group
> and user/group mapping
> in Shark.  What's the point of having it there if
> you have to do it
> yourself?
> 
> The second question troubles me more.  I think I'm
> missing how something
> should be done, but don't see the obvious solution.
> 
> Using the administration tool, you can statically
> map a participant role
> to a shark group. So, why can't it be done
> dynamically?
> 
> Greg
>

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