FYI Assignees in Human Task

Question

Hello,
I would like to allow a Human Task assignee to select and assign users as FYI assignees in a parallel stage within the same Human Task. Is this possible?
Example: User_A is assigned and logged-into the Human Task under the Worklist Application. I would like to allow User_A to select and assign users as FYI assignees in the currently active task. I only require the FYI users to comment or they can ignore entirely and User_A can reject/approve at any time.
Is it possible to add FYI assignees to a Human Task while it is running? If so, how is this done?
My findings so far:
IWorkflowServiceClient client = WorkflowServiceClientFactory.getWorkflowServiceClient();
ITaskService service = client.getTaskService();
What should I do from here?
I would be open to other design ideas, as well.
Thanks,
Mark

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible assign a group as participant of some human task, passing the group name as parameter.
I have tested just now.
It works pretty well in SOA 11.1.1.4 (BPEL or BPM).
Make sure add a data parameter in your human task definition and pass a valid group name to it.
At the Assignment tab, in the participants' list, add a group, data type by expression, and set the value to the right xpath expression to the corresponding parameter.
For example: /task:task/task:payload/task:group
If it is not working look the SOA log files, probably you'll find some information about the error there. Maybe there is some problem with your jazn.com configuration.
You can also test if there is something wrong related to the group name, trying to transfer some task to the same group by the worklist.