[rabbidwombat]

Hi, I am new to ProcessMaker and trying to make what i thought was a simple Vacation Request workflow. as i thought out the process i realized that it isnt as simple as it sounds! I am having trouble makeing user that the correct person is who gets the task assigned to them. I do have my users set up in departments so User1 reports to User2 and Hr is User3 for example.

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So as you can see, if User1 starts this process and step2 is HR approval (to make sure that the user has time available) when the job goes to the Supervisor of User1 the task wants to goto the Supervisor of HR. And anytime anyone rejects anything im not sure how to get it to go back to the original user that started all of this.

Am i just making this way more complicated than it needs to be? seems like it shouldnt be this hard. Thanks!

[amosbatto]

First of all, make sure that all your users who are assigned to the first task which is "Vacation Request" should be members of departments which have supervisors (or they should be supervisors of a subdepartment which has a supervisor in a parent department).

The first task should use Value Based Assignment and it should use the variable @@requesterId to assign the user.

Then, create a trigger with the following code:

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if (!isset(@@requesterId) or empty(@@requesterId) {
   @@requesterId = @@USER_LOGGED;
   $aUser = userInfo(@@requesterId);
   @@supervisorId = $aUser['reportsto'];
   if (empty(@@supervisorId)) {
      throw new Exception("Error: User ".@@USR_USERNAME." isn't assigned to a department.");
   } 
}

Set this trigger to execute before assignment in the first task.

Your third task, "Supervisor Approval," should also use Value Based Assignment and the variable @@supervisorId.

[rabbidwombat]

Thanks! that worked!
only small issue was a missing ) at the end of the if statement...took me a bit to figure that out.

Thanks alot, the entire process seems to be working the way i would expect it!

corrected code for anyone else working with an issue like this:

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if (!isset(@@requesterId) or empty(@@requesterId)) {
   @@requesterId = @@USER_LOGGED;
   $aUser = userInfo(@@requesterId);
   @@supervisorId = $aUser['reportsto'];
   if (empty(@@supervisorId)) {
      throw new Exception("Error: User ".@@USR_USERNAME." isn't assigned to a department.");
   } 
}