Dynamic Approval

How can we model dynamic approval in Oracle BPM 11g, such that a task is approved by n number of participants, where n is determined at run time.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks,

I made a quick test and here's what I got.
Before the HumanTask, generate a comma separated list of the required approvers (in your examples it would generate "A,B" and "A,B,C,D") and then pass that list as an input to the human task.
Then on the Participant configuration choose
- Type: Serial
- Build a list of participants using: Names and expressions
- Specify attributes using: Value-based
And in the participants list use a single line with: User, By Expression, the payload variable containing the user list (something like /task:task/task:payload/task:usersList).
Expand the Advanced section below the participants list and select the "Specify skip rule" checkbox and put /task:task/task:systemAttributes/task:outcome = "REJECT" in the textbox that appears. This makes the approval terminate as soon as a user sets the outcome to REJECT, otherwise it would still go through all the remaining approvers.
With this you should get the desired functionality. You'll still need some java to generate the user list (or a database stored procedure, or a web service, or...), but it's, I hope, minimal enough.
There's (I think) an alternative, in which you don't need to generate the user list beforehand. In the participant configuration, if you chose Specify attributes using: Rule-based, instead of value-based, you can use a business rule to generate the list of users. But I don't have much experience with business rules, so I can't help you there. But the rest should be the same
Tell me if there's anything that's not clear and I'll try to clarify it.
Regards,
Diogo Henriques

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