Sending Instance dynamically to multiple participant.

Question

I have a situation where the count of receiving participants will very from 1 to 5.
this.participant.next helps in sending instance dyanmically to a participant.
My question was, How do I send the instance dynamically to multiple partipants.
Please help

Answer 1

First thing that comes to mind is to utilize a SPLIT-N JOIN.
Put 1) an AUTOMATIC, and 2) the activity that needs to have multiple participants in between the SPLIT-N and the JOIN. In the code for the SPLIT, iterate over your variable that contains the counter of participants (intParticipantCount) and do the following:
1) set another variable for the desired participant (varParticipant)
2) clone the instance for as many particpants as you have.
In the code of the automatic, put the "participant.next" code and use your varParticipant
So if your process looked like the list below, and Activity 2 was the activity that needed to have a dynamic number of participants:
1) begin
2) activity 1
3) activity 2 (has dynamic # of participants)
4) activity 3
5) end
It would now look like:
1) begin
2) activity 1
3) SPLIT-N
4) Automatic (to set next participant)
5) activity 2
6) JOIN
4) activity 3
5) end
All of this assumes that Activity 2 needs to be completed by EACH user. If this is not the case...for example if you want to assign Activity 2 to a dynamic list of users (1-5) but you only want 1 user of the dynamic list to complete the activity, then I have no proven or tested suggestion, but you could perhaps look into seeing if you can 1) create parametric roles at runtime and 2)modify the members of the parametric role during runtime. if this is possible, then at runtime you would create a new parametric role, add the users to it, and set the parametric value. But this approach is all theoretical. Not sure if you can actually do that.