Re: Re: Re: Activity and process finish with custom assignment manager

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Hi,

actually, being user with username "admin" doesn't mean anything for 
runTS (ManualTest example). It means for Swing client application 
depending on configuration...when you specify the admin group, all the 
users belonging to this group are able to see other users' worklists. 
Even in that case, it is not recommended that user admin acts on a 
behalf of another user in a sense to accept their workitems...
Anyway, being admin means nothing to the core engine but it can mean 
something to the applications built on top of the engine.

runTS(ManualTest) logic is to instantiate processes and get the worklist 
of user admin...so it will not see or execute workitems from other 
users' worklists.

The implementation of the logic to be able to accept/complete activities 
of the user if you belong to the same group is also out of the scope of 
the core engine.
In some implementations we assign the activities to the groups. From the 
core engines' point of view, a group is just another user/resource in 
the system (and thus there is a worklist maintained by the shark for 
this group resource). From the applications' point of view, when real 
user logs in, the worklist for the user is retrieved by querying shark 
for the worklists of all the groups this user belongs to, plus for the 
worklist of himself.
When user accepts an activity, application calls shark's API to reassign 
activity from the group to this user, when it rejects we reassign from 
this user to the group...

Greetings,
Sasa.

DS wrote:
> Hi, thanks for the quick response. 
>
> Yes, that makes sense. One thing is that I am still logged in as admin so I'd
> think I should be acting on behalf of any user, which seems not to be the case.
> Appart from ability to create process instances, if even that, what can admin
> do that a regular user doesn't?
>
> And another only a user may accept and complete an action whereas I'd really
> love to have an ability to be able to accomplish the same thing being a part of
> user group that activity performer is assiciated with. 
>
> Thank you,
>
> DS
>   

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