[jboss-user] [jBPM] - Re: Trying to set ActorId in On Entry Action - work item is null

jemmerling [https://community.jboss.org/people/jemmerling] created the discussion "Re: Trying to set ActorId in On Entry Action - work item is null" To view the discussion, visit: https://community.jboss.org/message/648956#648956 -------------------------------------------------------------- So when trying your suggestions: I tried using a process variable to specify GroupId for a task. I would like to ask whether you have done this successfully; if so, I will try harder! At present it seems to fail. Note this is jBPM 5.2. So the name of the group to which I want to associate this task is "managers". I had specified GroupId as "managers" (without quotes) in the task definition and this worked as expected. I tried using a process variable to specify ActorId. This also clearly worked. Also I believe I found some JUnit test in the source distribution that exercises this. So I changed the GroupId specification to "#{managersGroup}" plus I defined a process variable with this name. To assign a value to this variable, I created a Script Node (that executes right after the process is instantiated) that assigns the value: System.out.println("** ** ** ** ** managers: " + managersGroup + " ** ** ** ** ** ** **"); managersGroup = "managers"; System.out.println( "** ** ** ** ** managers: " + managersGroup + " ** ** ** ** ** ** **" ); I see the messages written to stdout that indicate the variable has this value assigned. However, when a member of the managers group looks at their task list, it is empty. Setting a breakpoint, I see that when this method in TaskServiceSession is called: **public** List<TaskSummary> getTasksAssignedAsPotentialOwner(**final**String userId, List<String> groupIds, **final** String language, **final** **int** firstResult, **int** maxResults) groupIds is an empty list (or null, now I forget which).  So please just let me know if you have ever gotten this to work. If you have an example, please show how you specified GroupId. Thanks! --JE -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [https://community.jboss.org/message/648956#648956] Start a new discussion in jBPM at Community [https://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]