Hi John Thanks so much! That's exactly what I was looking for. Btw, great work, I like route. Very powerful.
Gernot On 30 Mrz., 13:39, John Mettraux <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:24:29AM -0700, Gernot wrote: > > > My question: What is the best way to impersonate a process? All the > > process examples I found work with static users (bob, alice). But in > > my example, the supervisor participant must be set dynamically (each > > user knows his supervisor). > > Hello Gernot, > > welcome to ruote's mailing list. > > You could use a workitem field : > > ---8<--- > pdef = Ruote.process_definition do > participant '${supervisor}' > participant '${user}' > end > > engine.launch( > pdef, > 'user' => 'gernot', > 'supervisor' => 'ueber-gernot') > --->8--- > > or a variable : > > ---8<--- > pdef = Ruote.process_definition do > participant '${v:supervisor}' > participant '${v:user}' > end > > engine.launch( > pdef, > {}, # no fields pre-set > 'user' => 'gernot', > 'supervisor' => 'ueber-gernot') > --->8--- > > or aliases (thanks to variables) : > > ---8<--- > pdef = Ruote.process_definition do > supervisor > user > end > > engine.launch( > pdef, > {}, # no fields pre-set > 'user' => 'gernot', > 'supervisor' => 'ueber-gernot') > --->8--- > > Most of the time, people go for groups or roles though : > > ---8<--- > pdef = Ruote.process_definition do > supervisor > participant '${user}' > end > > engine.launch( > pdef, > 'user' => 'gernot') > --->8--- > > Where supervisor is a participant that stacks workitems and gives access to > them according to some authorization logic (this logic could take into > account the participant name in the workitem and some other fields, like > priority, region, date, ...). > > Probably the 'supervisor' participant can derive the supervisor username > based on the value of the workitem field 'user'. > > I hope this will help, best regards, > > -- > John Mettraux -http://jmettraux.wordpress.com -- you received this message because you are subscribed to the "ruote users" group. to post : send email to [email protected] to unsubscribe : send email to [email protected] more options : http://groups.google.com/group/openwferu-users?hl=en
