GP: Dynamically assignment of users

Hello,
i'm a newbie and i have the following question:
Can i dynamically assign the user of the next step in a guided procedure?
The initiator of my GP passes some data to a web service. The web service determines on the basis of the data the user of the next step in my GP. Is this possible? And how can i achieve this scenario?
Thanks in advance and best regard,
Matthias

Hi Matthias,
Unfortunately, the GP external service callable object only works for RFCs. You cannot use it for a Web Service.
Therefore, I would propose the following solution. You can import a Web Service as an external service in CAF (using the Composite Application Services perspective in the Developer Studio). Then you can use the external service from a CAF application service. The application service can already be exposed as a callable object, and you can take the user ID as an output. Then you can use the predefined callable object Assign Users to Process Role, and map the application service output to its input. To enable the assignment of the relevant user to the next action, you must consolidate the role created for the Assign Users action to the role created for the next action, and set the type of the new role to Runtime Defined. Then, at runtime the Assign Users object is executed in the background and the user is assigned to execute the next action.
You can find how-to guides describing how to import a Web Service in CAF and how to integrate it further into CAF in the https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/developerareas/platform?rid=/webcontent/uuid/d8dbd703-0801-0010-c9bf-c04bc52f562f">caf [original link is broken] [original link is broken] (see tutorial N.81).
Hope this helps a bit.
Regards,
Zornitsa

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PS. Did you solve your problem? If so please close your question
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2 /
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