Participant Editor

The Participant Editor

Use the Participant Editor to assign participants to activities.

The participant list consists out of the following columns:

Participant Name

The name of the participant. This will be automatically filled if you add a participant

Responsibility

The way how the participant is responsible at the activity:

Responsible
Those who will perform the activity
Accountable
Those who will approve the task
Consulted
Those who will give hints to archive the task
Informed
Those who are kept up to date
Supportive
Those who may help to complete the task.
Verify
Those who check whether the activity result meets the specification
Sign Off
Those who approve the verify desicion
Omitted
Those who are excluded from participating at the task

Amount

This parameter is for simulation purposes only. You can specify, how many Resources of this type (i.e. a Role) is required to perform the task.

Add Participant

To add a participant click on the add button. The "Specify Participant" Dialog appears.

The following options appear:

Role

Use this to add a role as participant. Roles will be solved on workflow runtime using an organizational diagram.

There are two different methods to solve roles within an organizational diagram:

Manager Roles:

If a role is interpreted as manager role IYOPRO will traverse up in the organizational diagram starting at a reference until an element is found that matches the role. This will result in exactly one result or, if nobody matches, in an empty result. You need to specify how the reference is taken:

Process Initiator
This is the user which initiated the process instance. Note that this may be unset if the process instance has been started by an anonymous form / message trigger ....
Latest Task Performer
This is the user which executed the task before the current task. Note that this may be unspecified if there has no user task been executed before.
Process Attribute
The reference is taken from a process attribute. You need to specify the process attribute name in the text field that appears if you choose this option. The attribute value may either contain a repository user id or better an email address. IYOPRO will search the organizational diagram for an element with the given property and use this as reference.

Default:

The default method is that all elements, which own the role will be selected in the result list. If nobody owns the role the result will be empty.

If you have already defined roles in another diagram which is not part of your active BPI project you may import these roles by a click on the import roles button.

Repository

Use this to add a repository user or group as participant.

If you choose a group all members of the group will be assigned the result set.

Sometimes it's required to assign external users as workflow participants. Use this to specify an external participant by its name / email address.

Expression

If you need to calculate the participant by an expression this option is the right one.

The Result variable of an expression may contain the following content:

single email address	Result='test@iyopro.com'	The Result will contain a single string value which represents the email address of the participant.
list of email addresses	Result=['test1@iyopro.com','test2@iyopro.com']	The Result will contain a list of email addresses
single user record	Result=Workflow.Users["Smith"]	The Result will contain a single user record
list of user records	Result=[Workflow.Users["Smith"],Workflow.Users["Jones"]]	The Result will contain a list of user records

Remove Participant

To remove a participant either click on the remove button at the end of the participants row or select one or more rows and click on the Remove button in the toolbar.