If you need the name of the actor who is acting on an activity, you can use the property Value.SendTo.

Each of the human activities have workflow variables for storing details of actors etc.

For example, how to define variables for use in Approval activities is described below. This gives the syntax for creating the variables and typical examples for different cases.

Variables for capturing WorkItemIds

The Activityids for the activity can be retrieved using a variable of type array, with the following syntax:

'^'+CurrentActivity.Name+'WorkItemIds' 

For example, ^ManagerApprovalWorkItemIds

Variables for capturing All Actors' Details

The details of the actor(s) to whom the approval work item gets assigned can be accessed by declaring a variable of type array with the following syntax:

'^'+CurrentActivity.Name+'ActingUsers' 

For example, ^ManagerApprovalActingUser.

Variables for capturing Responding Actors' Details

The details of the actor(s) submitting the approval/rejection response can be accessed by declaring a variable of type resource with the following syntax:

'^'+HWSActivity.ActivityName+'RespondingUser' 

For example, ^ManagerApprovalRespondingUser.

Variables for capturing Approving/Rejecting Actor Details

The details of the actor(s) submitting either approval or rejection response can be accessed by declaring a variable of type array with the following syntax:

'^'+ activityName+'ApprovingUsers' (or)

'^'+ activityName+'RejectingUsers'

For example, ^ManagerApprovalApprovingUsers or ^ManagerApprovalRejectingUsers.

Variables for capturing Comments

To capture the comments entered by an actor, add a variable with a name prefixed by '^', with the following syntax:

'^'+_WorkItem.HWSActivity.ActivityName+'CommentApproved'/'CommentRejected'.

For example, if a comment entered along with an approval submission has to be retrieved from an activity named 'ManagerApproval', add a variable with ^ManagerApprovalCommentApproved as its name. If a comment entered along with a rejection submission has to be retrieved from the same activity, i.e., 'ManagerApproval', add a variable with ^ManagerApprovalCommentRejected as its name. The variable gets initialized with the comment entered by the actor, after the activity response is submitted.

There are similar variables for each of the human activities, you can check the Skelta BPM.NET 2007 Developer Help for more details.

Regards,

Roni

Value.SendTo will not be accessible in case of an update variable. You will have to use the workflow variables as described earlier if it needs to be accessed outside the context of the human activity.

Regards,

Roni 

How exactly should I define the variable in the start of the process so that I can use it in the update variable task?

In my AnalysisDTI activity I tried using ^AnalysisDTIActingUser in the update variable but it returns a blank, and I defined ^AnalysisDTIActingUser as a variable at start of type Array (also tried with type string, but with the same result)

manuelapalma

         Dim AL As New ArrayList()

          AL = ctype(ctx.Variables.Item("^AnalysisDTIActingUser").Value,ArrayList)

         Dim i As Integer

         For i = 0 To AL.Count-1

            logger.Loginformation(" Value : " + AL(i).ToString())

         Next

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Rsimon

I'm sorry, I'm not a developer. What do I do with this code? Where should I write it?

manuelapalma

You might need to use a Script action.

Can I get the scenario in which you need to use this?

Regards,

RSimon