Need Help with AEM Approval Workflow Initiator

[PRHebert]

Hello there,

I'm currently  working on an AEM Approval Workflow, and I've hit a bit of a roadblock. I'm struggling to properly set up the initiator, and I could use some assistance.

Here's a breakdown of my workflow:

The Manager Approval task is a custom implementation of ParticipantChooser, where I retrieve the workflow initiator using:

String initiator = workItem.getWorkflow().getInitiator();

Afterward, I identify all the groups this user belongs to and match the author group to the approval groups. This part works smoothly when I manually start the workflow.

However, my goal is to streamline the process for authors by triggering the workflow automatically when the authors publish content using a launcher.

Here lies the issue: when the launcher triggers the workflow, the user is set to "workflow-service" which prevents me from finding the correct approvers.

I tried using the metadata

String initiator2 = workItem.getWorkflowData().getMetaDataMap().get("userId", String.class);

Or the workflowSession history but no luck so far.

* Get workflow history */
final List<HistoryItem> histories = workflowSession.getHistory(workItem.getWorkflow());

/* Get last item in workflow history */
final HistoryItem lastItem = histories.get(histories.size() - 1);

/* Get the user that participated in the last item */
final String lastUser = lastItem.getUserId();

Any other way I can achieve this programmatically or should I find another approach?

Thanks.

[SureshDhulipudi]

https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/how-to-retrieve-the-email-...
From workflow item ,you can retrieve user id by this code below

item.getWorkflow().getInitiator();

Code to get mail id .

resourceResolver = getResourceResolver(workflowSession.getSession());

UserManager manager = resourceResolver.adaptTo(UserManager.class);

Authorizable authorizable = manager.getAuthorizable(workItem.getWorkflow().getInitiator());

Value[] email = authorizable.getProperty("./profile/email");

System.out.println(email);

https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/aem-workflow-set-user-inpu...

[VatsalGupta · Accepted solution]

@PRHebert - would the author who published the page be considered as initiator?

If yes, you can obtain property lastReplicatedBy from payload node.

[PRHebert]

Thanks @VatsalGupta I was able to get unblock by using this.

lastReplicatedBy = payloadNode.getProperty("cq:lastReplicatedBy").getString();

[kautuk_sahni]

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