Jiri Svitak [https://community.jboss.org/people/jsvitak] created the discussion "Re: I need to read values from a MySQL database and assign actors for human task accordingly. How can I retrieve content from a database or a file into the web designer?" To view the discussion, visit: https://community.jboss.org/message/824733#824733 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hello Aayush, The web designer is not able to connect to a database in a way you describe. There is another approach how to solve this. You can use process variables. You can fill the Actors field in designer with a value like #{actors}. In your code, you can fetch data from a database and supply them as a process variable "actors" to a process instance when calling startProcess() method. See also: https://community.jboss.org/thread/216207 https://community.jboss.org/thread/216207 Hope that helps. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [https://community.jboss.org/message/824733#824733] Start a new discussion in jBPM at Community [https://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]