Appworks Platform: How do I use the Assignment Building Block

Jon Butterfield

I'm trying to assign entities to users, who will "own them". I am using the Assignment Building Block. I can make it work by using a property to store the user name and typing it manually upon creation. But I want to be able to select a user from a dropdown list. I have tried changing my property to be an enumerated text, and using Dynamic enumeration. That led me to trying to figure out how to create a BPM that can get all user names and return them in the form that the enumerated text object requires. I found the webservice that gets all users, but I have no idea what format the enumerated text object requires, nor how to shove the output into that format. I really feel like there should be an easier way to do what I want.

AppWorks Tips

@Jon Butterfield Is this still an issue? Currently, you can assign a user or orgUnit dynamically based on 2 properties. Where the first property is the type (like "user" or "organizational_unit") and the other property is the type instance (your real user/orgUnit)

Have a look at DynamicEnum tricks here where your second property can be filled by the dyn. enum.
https://appworks-tips.com/2024/03/08/215_the_cache_of_dynamic_enums_exposed/

Watch carefully what the real value of the user must be as. See an example of something I tried in this post (section "The Assignee ID"):
https://appworks-tips.com/2021/02/12/084_working_with_tasks_role_team_worklist_personal/

//Antal

Jon Butterfield

Honestly, we stopped using AppWorks back in October and implemented a purely Content Server version for now. Even with access to the lead developers in person at Vegas, I couldn't get the support I needed to use the API. Thank you for asking though.