User Task Assignee in Alfresco Activiti

[jeenut]

Hello all,

Does activiti:assignee="${makerid}" not work in Alfresco activiti verison? 

There is a service task which does: execution.setVariable("makerid", "Jeenu Thomas") ;

Following this is a User task where I set the Assignee to ${makerid}. But the user with name "Jeenu Thomas" doesn't get the task. Flow shows that task is assigned to nobody. What am I missing here?

This same thing worked in the Activiti community edition.

Regards and thanks,

Jeenu

[gdharley]

Sounds like you are using enterprise edition.

The stanza you indicate does work in activiti enterprise.....however it requires the actual ID (Long number) rather than the userid.

This is a (significant) change in behavior from community edition that has snagged me in the past, especially with a migration from community edition.

This is because of the changes made in the identity management.

Also, Community Edition 6 (currently in Beta) has the same behavior as Enterprise Edition.

Greg

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[jeenut]

How can I get this ID? The user list shoes a column for external ID but it is blank. Is this the ID you are talking about? If yes, how can I assign this ID?