Hello Clemens,
in general when you create a user it's associated to the instance of the
workflow actually presents for all its lifecycle, although you change
the workflow definition the first workflow remains associated to the
user. If you create a new user the second workflow is used. But is
possible to set the new workflow instance to all users updating on the
DB, in flowable's tables, the value of the associated workflow, in this
way also existing users will be subject to the new workflow.
Before performing this step you have to approve all users who are under
approval.
HTH,
Best regards,
Samuel
Il 16/01/24 13:19, Bergmann, Clemens ha scritto:
Hi,
we are currently evaluating syncope as a replacement for our
proprietary IAM system.
We think that modelling internal processes with BPMN would allow
better communication of our processes. Therefore we are looking into
using the flowable functionality. After testing some things out it
seems that the configuration of a flow is instantiated when it is
started and then never changed for the lifetime of this workflow
instance. For the user process tis would mean that we will not be able
to change the user management flow after initial importing of an user.
Our User management process is not changing rapidly but there are some
changes here and there. Some of these changes are minor and could be
implemented by changing the serviceTask implementation classes. Some
of them are bigger and we would want to reflect them in the BPMN
representation. If I am not mistaken that would mean that we would
have to reimport all 30k+ Users and move them into the right state so
that they would benefit from the new process in the future.
I understand that applying a new version of the workflow to an
existing instance would be a challenge. For example the new version
could depend on flow variables that are not available in the current
state of the current instance. Nevertheless I think this is a main
impediment when using the flowable functionality.
Do I understand this restriction correctly or is there a way to
“migrate” a given user to a new workflow variant?
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Clemens (Bergmann)
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Clemens Bergmann
[er/ihm; he/him]
Gruppe Nutzermanagement und Entwicklung
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Hochschulrechenzentrum, Alexanderstraße 2, 64283 Darmstadt
Tel. +49 6151 16 71184
http://www.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/ <http://www.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de/>
