Workitems being created under different usernames

[Rick Bakker]

Thanks Ramki and Mike, I admit I didn't think of that. But, it doesn't work!
Workitems are still created by the actual agent of the previous
workitem, even after SWU_OBUF.

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Mike Pokraka
<wug at workflowconnections.com> wrote:
> Rick,
>
> Creating the next work item within the current user's context facilitates
> advance in dialog. I think switching that off for the step involved should
> do the job.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
>
> On Mon, March 15, 2010 5:49 am, Rick Bakker wrote:
>> Dear WUGgers,
>>
>> A custom-made workflow was sometimes failing to find an agent for a
>> Decision step via an AC rule when testing.
>>
>> Eventually the cause was tracked down and it became 100% reproducible.
>> It was only when certain users had executed the previous step, and an
>> attribute had been changed in the underlying object during the
>> workflow. It turned out to be an authorization problem.
>>
>> I have always viewed workflow logs with concern when I see which
>> usernames some of the steps or workitems have been created by. They
>> could be any old agent, usually the actual agent of the preceding
>> step. But, this was the first time I had seen it cause a problem.
>>
>> So what do I do now? Try to find every authorization that could
>> possibly be needed in every situation with this workflow (and all
>> other workflows) and request they be given to all possible users, or
>> do I insert a dummy background step after each dialog step
>> in order to pass control back to WF-BATCH? I tried the latter. It's
>> simple, quick, effective and ugly.
>>
>> Has anybody else encountered this problem?
>>
>> By the way, I tried putting in a 1-minute wait step after the step
>> where the underlying  object gets changed, it didn't make any
>> difference. In any case, there could be other situations  in which
>> agents don't have sufficient privileges to do whatever a step needs to
>> be created properly.
>>
>> We're on ECC 6.0.
>>
>> regards
>> Rick Bakker
>> Hanabi Technology
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