HuiSheng Xu [http://community.jboss.org/people/rebody] replied to the discussion "What is the usage of ProcessEngine.setAuthenticatedUserId" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/541473#541473 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Jaber,   Actually, jBPM 4.3 didn't record the starter of process instances.  Maybe you could join our discussion for this feature.  There is the post url: http://community.jboss.org/thread/150854?tstart=0 http://community.jboss.org/thread/150854?tstart=0   And the setAuthenticatedUserId() method used ThreadLocal to store the userId.  It could transfer the login userId from outside of process engine to inside.  So the component in process engine could use this userId to do something. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/541473#541473] Start a new discussion in jBPM at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]