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jeremyasmith
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February 13, 2018
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Adobe Campaign Workflow Approval Task

  • February 13, 2018
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Hi,

In a workflow I have an approval task and I need to set the assignee dynamically in the workflow, there are over 40 different possible assignees for the approval and I do not want to have 40 plus approval tasks.

I could see that I can add a 'Filter' assignment type, but when I add a filter condition based on 'Email equals $(instance/vars/@who) I get the message that the variable does not exist in this context.

I have tried various formats $(instance/vars/who) etc. for the variable without any luck so far.

Jeremy

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    Best answer by jeremyasmith

    Hi,

    I have taken another look at this today and have managed to do what I want using the following method:

    In a previous javascript step set an Instance variable with a list of the operators I want to be approvers.

    Then in the approval task I have used a filter assignment type and added a set of dummy conditions that will not match existing operators:

         email equals "noone@nowhere.com"

    I then used the approval task advanced tab and in the initialisation javascript I modified the conditions to match the approvers from the instance variable:

    activity.assigneeFilter.where.condition[operatorcount].expr = "@email = '" + operator.@email + "'";

    This seems to work and I can set up any approvers I want dynamically

    Thanks

    Jeremy

    4 replies

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    katier88559986
    February 14, 2018

    Hi Jeremy,

    You should be able to select 'operator' assignment type, and pick a single assignee from the Assignee dropdown box.

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    jeremyasmithAuthor
    Level 2
    February 14, 2018

    Hi,

    Thanks for your reply, what I am trying to do is set the assignee dynamically in the task, i.e. set a variable in a javascript just before the approval task based on the context of some sort and use that variable as the assignee in the approval task.

    Jeremy

    florentlb
    florentlb
    Level 10
    March 12, 2018

    Hi Jeremy,

    Since this activity only lets you pick an operator from a defined list, I'm not sure you can use a variable here.

    Florent

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    jeremyasmithAuthorAccepted solution
    Level 2
    March 21, 2018

    Hi,

    I have taken another look at this today and have managed to do what I want using the following method:

    In a previous javascript step set an Instance variable with a list of the operators I want to be approvers.

    Then in the approval task I have used a filter assignment type and added a set of dummy conditions that will not match existing operators:

         email equals "noone@nowhere.com"

    I then used the approval task advanced tab and in the initialisation javascript I modified the conditions to match the approvers from the instance variable:

    activity.assigneeFilter.where.condition[operatorcount].expr = "@email = '" + operator.@email + "'";

    This seems to work and I can set up any approvers I want dynamically

    Thanks

    Jeremy

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