Assigning a ROLE dynamically in PAPI

Question

Hi, I've got a need to create an instance of a process and assign the ROLE to the instance dynamically through PAPI.
I know how to create the instance, but not to assign a ROLE to it dynamically.
Does anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

Hi,
The right way to implement this use case, is to use parametric roles. Instead of creating a regular role, you can place an activity (let's say an interactive activity) in a parametric role. Parametric roles have the particularity that they need to be linked to a process instance variable of type String. This String value can be set dynamically and at runtime even with a value coming as an input argument to the process through the process instance creation.
So your process pattern could look something like this:
Begin -> Automtic -> Interactive (in a parametric role referencing the String instance variable called paramRoleValue) -> ...
The Automatic activity method implementation could have something like:
paramRoleValue = "part1"
// We assume the participant that will have visibility is also identified somehow into a process instance variable (at least it userid)
// Use logic to use the Fuego.Fdi.DirOrganizationalRole + Fuego.Fdi.RoleAssignment to dynamically assign the parametric role with the value "part1" to the target participant(s).
HTH,
eduardoc.