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October 16, 2015
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Workflows: Get initiator in a workflow route

  • October 16, 2015
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In an OR step for a workflow, I need to know the initiator user to decide if the route should be true or false, based on user roles.

In a workflow step, I can do this:

public void execute(WorkItem workItem, WorkflowSession workflowSession, MetaDataMap args) throws WorkflowException { … UserManager userManager = AccessControlUtil.getUserManager(workflowSession.getSession()); Authorizable initiator = userManager.getAuthorizable(workItem.getWorkflow().getInitiator()); … }

Note: in a workflow step, if I do ‘workflowSession.getUser()’ I always get ‘admin’ user, and it’s not what I want.

But, as stated in [1] by David McMahon, in an OR step for a workflow, only the workflowData, jcrSession, and workflowSession objects are available to be used within the check() function (not the workItem).

How can I get the initiator user in a workflow route?

[1] http://blogs.adobe.com/dmcmahon/2013/03/26/cq5-failure-running-script-etcworkflowscriptscaworkitem-ecma-referenceerror-workitem-is-not-defined/

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    Best answer by Sham_HC

    Instead of args.put  can you try  workflowData.getMetaDataMap().put( "initiator", workItem.getWorkflow().getInitiator()) ;

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    jeanvaljean1Adobe Employee
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    October 16, 2015

    Did you try to add a process step earlier in the model that set the metadata with the initiator ?  That would probably the easiest to solve as then in your or-split you can access the metadata via the workflowData

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    Julio_BaixauliAuthor
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    October 16, 2015

    Thank you tygeBSL. I've tried this in the first workflow step:

    public void execute(WorkItem workItem, WorkflowSession workflowSession, MetaDataMap args) throws WorkflowException { ... args.put("initiator", workItem.getWorkflow().getInitiator()); ... }

    But in route code I can't write the initiator to the log:

    if(workflowData.getMetaDataMap().containsKey("initiator")){ String initiator = (String)workflowData.getMetaDataMap().get("initiator"); log.info("initiator: " + initiator); }

    containsKey("initiator") returns false. Am I forgetting something?

    Thank you very much!

    Sham_HC
    Sham_HCAccepted solution
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    October 16, 2015

    Instead of args.put  can you try  workflowData.getMetaDataMap().put( "initiator", workItem.getWorkflow().getInitiator()) ;

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      Julio_BaixauliAuthor
      Level 4
      October 16, 2015

      Perfect! Now it works!

      Thank you very much! :-)

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