role "everybody" on todolist cause Exception

Michael Illarietti

Hi to all,

 

In my simple process there is a First action with a role "everybody" on ToDoList.

When i open a new folder I get this error:

"Exception 'ORA-01460: unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested' occurred when attempting to 'Create alert request'."

 

This error disappear if i remove the role from toDoList.

Someone could help me?

Prakash__Kanchan

Not sure what that error is exactly, but its generally recommended to not use the "everybody" role on todo list. It adds a bunch of ealert entries for every folder for every user in the system (that might be the cause of the error, it encountered some username that cannot be entered into ealert)

 

Try this workaround instead- might even fix the error you're seeing, and achieve similar results

 

http://metastorm.processmapping.com.au/post/Everybody-or-just-you-1386595

Brian Mellert

l have always thought it ironic that OpenText/Metastorm itself suggests never using "Everybody" for that very reason, and provide an alternative approach of "anybody" (ProcessContext.CurrentUser for V9 or %User.Name for V7), but yet they never implemented that or changed Everybody to do that themselves.