Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Build Collections for Composite Task


For a Composite Task you need to define executors and set AssignedTo field. This field has a specific type InArgument<Collection<string>>. So you need to build a collection of strings and specify it to Composite Task activity. Let's take a look.


You can see the AssignedTo parameter:


  For setting it you should take BuildCollection activity and choose a string type:


Then create a workflow variable of InArgument<Collection<string>> type called Executors


and set it Values as shown:

 

where values has claims-like view "i:0#.w|DOMAINNAME\\user". Then set a CompositeTask AssignedTo field to Executors.

Similar to that, you can grow a Dictionary by BuildDictionary activity. 
For the <Dictionary<string, string> case note that keys set as text, but values are need to be directly set as C# strings:

4 comments:

  1. hi it is really a valuable information. What if i want to pass the SP group dynamically

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  2. Based on your example if i give Executors, the approval goes only to the first person and not the second. Can you guys help me out

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    1. Hi!

      If you want to set SP group dynamically, you need to create your custom web service or a code activity, which would return the Collection<string> value.

      Then create argument of in-direction in workflow designer (in-argument), with type of Collection<string>, set this argument with your web service or activity value, and then this InArgument<Collection<string>> will be your AssignedTo value.

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