Task Assignment - Assign to Variable for Groups/Roles

[Ade M]

 

Looking through the threads I came across 

https://community.hornbill.com/topic/22378-task-assignment-assign-to-variable-for-groups/#comment-105492

Is there any scope for a future improvement to  enable  Task Assignment - Assign to Variable for Groups/Roles as this would make the BPM's a lot slicker as   there is potentially  up to a dozen group/roles 

The Teams make up would be for example

TEAM_A           TEAM_A_DEVS, TEAM_A_TESTERS , TEAM_A_BUSINESS ........

TEAM_B           TEAM_B_DEVS, TEAM_B_TESTERS , TEAM_B_BUSINESS ........

TEAM_C ......

The  roles could be then dynamicaly assigned without the need for quite a few  Decision branches.

Thanks in advance

[Bob Dickinson]

Hi @Ade M

It IS actually possible to use the "Assign to Variable" option on a Human Task to a User, Team or Role. You just need to use the correct syntax (I've noticed this isn't documented anywhere however, so will look to correct this).
Also, this is not a free text field (at present) so the string will need to be injected in from somewhere else - possibly if you have stored the generated string in a custom field, that could be an option. 

The strings you need are:

To assign to a Team
urn:sys:group:<team ID>
e.g.
urn:sys:group:ABCCORP/bobteam/

To assign to a User
urn:sys:user:<UserID>
e.g.
urn:sys:user:bobd

To assign to a Role
urn:sys:role:<role name>
e.g.
urn:sys:role:Asset Manager

 

 

[Ade M]

Thanks for the  quick reply,   The Assign to a role would work-  shame its not a free txt that could be done with some free txt manipulation but  i can always use a series of  custom fields