Manager wants to assign his duties to someone else in CWB

Question

we have a big issue here .
In our organization some managers wants to assign his/her duties to other managers lets say acting managers .Because managers may be travelling so the acting managers should be able to allocate compensation for the managers .the acting manager should not need to be the direct reports of managers .So for example if a manager is travelling someone in HR should be able to allocate compensation to manager's direct employees and his/her direct employees.
i thought that 'Reassign An Employee' function would work but it isnt seem to be working .
Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hi Ravi
1. There is nothing like a manager configured separately in weblogic console. Its like this. Even Manager is also a User, just another user. The link is like this. Each User will have standard properties like firstName, lastName, Department, dateOfBirth, phoneNumber, Email etc etc. They also have a attribute like manager and the value of this is just reference to another user. I hope you got the point.
2. So, in Weblogic console, say you create 2 users: weblogic1, weblogic2, weblogic3. And you can assign some basic properties for each one of them like firstName, lastName etc. For weblogic1, assign manager as weblogic2. For weblogic2 assign manager as weblogic3 etc.
3. Now behind the screens in Workflow, SOA, when you run user.getManager() and if user is weblogic2, the value will come automatically as weblogic2. And it goes on. You do not have to do any programming for this. The workflow will use LDAP APIs to get the value for each standard property if they are named using standards like firstName=givenName, lastName=sn, emailId=mail etc etc. These are all standard AD object properties for Users, Groups. By the way, most of these applies to Groups also in addition to Users.
Now, the real trick is, when you create users in weblogic, you can specify firstname, lastname, mail etc. But to specify manager, for now, use this workaround given in below post. Before you run any samples or explore SOA/BPM, first create some testuser accounts in default weblogic embedded ldap using demo community seed app (servlet). You can open this EAR, and then WAR and extract .xml file and edit to add any stuff you want.
The below link should give you more idea:
Re: Realm is not populated for BPM app (See my reply)
Re: Seed Demo Community Failes
Thanks
Ravi Jegga