Who kicked off a manual transition on a workflow
I am writing a javascript property to return the user that started a job.
For manually run procedures I just return `myJob.launchedByUser`. For scheduled procedures I can rely on `myJob.launchedByUser` being blank.
The problem comes when I start working with workflows. I can get the user that started the workflow easily enough by using `myWorkflow.launchedByUser`, but that is not the user that started this job when using a manual transition.
Looking through the documentation and playing around with getProperty I cannot find a way to find the user that clicked the manual transition. Does anyone know how I can find out this information?
Best Answer
You can capture the user who took the manual transition by specifying it as a parameter on the target state and passing in `$[/myUser/userName]` in the manual transition.
Here is a description.
This workflow contains
State1- Starting state that has a manual transition, named Trans1, to State2
State2- Action that launches a procedure that has one parameter `'userName'` filled in with $[/myState/userName]
Trans1- A manual transition that takes the workflow from State1 to State2 and populates the `userName` parameter on State2 with `$[/myUser/userName]`
At run time the user is not prompted to fill in any information when taking the manual transition because the `userName` parameter was not marked as `defer`.
Thanks, that is an interesting approach. Definitely useful to know. I can set up a convention that says if a launchedBy parameter is passed in to a state, then use that. If not then default to myWorkflow.launchedByUser.
The user who performed manual transition is logged in the "View Log" link on the workflow details page.
A while ago I wrote a perl script to fetch the *last* user to perform manual transition on a given state. The complexity is because you can take the same manual transition multiple times in the same workflow because you can implement loops hence the need for *last* user.
See the code below. May be you can re-purpose this script for your use.
The two inputs are: 1) State definition name and 2) Workflow name.
use strict;
use ElectricCommander;
$| = 1;
my $state = "state1_transition";
my $workflowName = "workflow_44_201206291819";
my $ec = new ElectricCommander();
my $xPath = $ec->findObjects("logEntry", {
filter => { propertyName => "containerName" ,
operator => "equals" ,
operand1 => "$workflowName" }
});
#my $string = $xPath->findnodes_as_string("//workflow[completed = 0]");
#print "$string \n";
my $countOfLastTransition = $xPath->findnodes_as_string("count(//logEntry[subjectName = '$state'])");
#print "$countOfLastTransition" . "\n";
my $principal = $xPath->findnodes("(//logEntry[subjectName = '$state']/principal)[$countOfLastTransition]")->string_value();
my $time = $xPath->findnodes("(//logEntry[subjectName = '$state']/time)[$countOfLastTransition]")->string_value();
print "Most recent transition of \"$state\" was taken at $time, by user \"$principal\"" . "\n";
Thanks for the example script! I will look into whether I can access the logEntry info via the javascript api. I would rather not force people to add a step to their procedures if I don't have to.
As far as I can tell there is no way to access this via javascript. I guess using a perl script in a step is the only way to get this info.
I switched the accepted answer since nikhil's method will work in javascript.
