Multiple assignments

Hello,
We are designing BPM flow for the project where standard role-based access control may not be sufficient. After researching parametric role it seems that they won't cover all our use cases either. Is there a way to send the activity to the inboxes of a certain group of people? The exact participants who should be notified are decided dynamically but there may be more than one person (they usually "belong" to a single role, but are only a subset of all users "in" that role).
Parametric roles looked like a correct answer but they require some predefined structure (stored in a DB or a directory). Maintaining such structure and keeping it in sync with our enterprise database and frequently changing rules seems like a big task.
Here's an example of what we need to accomplish:
A "Provider" user starts a BPM process instance and specifies a provider number in an entry form. That provider number is stored in an instance var. Based on a location of a provider (and sometimes other variables within BPM process instance and outside of it) the system should notify a group of people (region administrators) about this new item. Because the calculation is not simple, we can't just create a parametric role structure where each region coordinator would have provider numbers assigned as parameters.
The ideal solution to this problem would be an ability to call setNextParticipant() with a list of people to notify. Is there anything that can effectively substitute that? (Oracle BPM 10.3.1).
Thank you in advance,
Igor
Edited by: igorbunov on Sep 30, 2009 12:47 PM

Hi Igor,
I agree with you about the parametric roles. What you're doing could be done using parametric roles, but here's another approach.
If you had a role with all the participants assigned to it you could:
1. Create a Multiple activity that creates a copy of the work item instance and assigns it using next.participant to the each of the correct participants.
2. Once it leaves the Multiple, the copies of the work item instance would go to an Interactive activity in the "Everyone" role. Only those participants assigned to a copy inside the Multiple activity would now see the instance.
3. The Multiple's Join activity might have logic like this:
this = copy
action = RELEASEThis logic would set the variable(s) changed by the participant. The "action = RELEASE" logic does two things. It only allows one participant to take action on their copy and causes the copies in the other participant's inboxes to be deleted.
Hope this helps,
Dan

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