Candidate User Expression for (;)

This should be straightforward, but I’m stumped.

Has anyone using {role(<roleName>;<relationName>)} user expressions noticed any issues? In my 2022.10 installation, it appears that Candidate User Expressions will yield empty results when the current asset is not on the source-side of the relation.

For example… Given:

business terms Academic Administrator, Academic Manager,
- where both assets are in the same domain where an SME is assigned
Academic Administrator groups asset Academic Manager
When a test workflow is run against Academic Administrator
- User Expression of {role(Subject Matter Expert;groups)} evaluates to the SME
When a test workflow is run against ** Academic Manager**
- User Expression of {role(Subject Matter Expert;grouped by)} evaluates to []

Can anyone corroborate this?

Tom Friesen

Posted 3 years ago · Edited 1 year ago·Last reply 3 years ago

4 comments

Tom Friesen

OP3 years ago · Edited

Hey all,

Just wanted to update on this issue.

This was reproduced by engineering. I have been notified that the team has fixed the issue and it will be implemented on version 2023.02.

Cheers,
Tom

arthurburkhardt

·3 years ago · Edited

Just did this little test for you:

Assign myself “Business Steward” of a table FeedItem
Assign workflow to asset level
Start workflow from asset BestCommentId column (which is part of table FeedItem

This is the code

def userExpr1 = "role(Business Steward;contains)"
def userExpr2 = "role(Business Steward;is part of)"
loggerApi.info("${userExpr1} == ${users.getUserNames(userExpr1)}")
loggerApi.info("${userExpr2} == ${users.getUserNames(userExpr2)}")

This is the data

Those are the logs

role(Business Steward;contains) == [[email protected]]
role(Business Steward;is part of) == [[email protected]]

It seems it’s working with both the role and the co-role.

Tom Friesen

OP3 years ago · Edited

Hey @arthur.burkhardt… Thanks for testing!

Do you also have success when running it from the FeedbackItem asset? This is where I run into issues…

When run from Academic Administrator Business Term…

**INFO** c.c.d.c.api.component.LoggerApiImpl - Academic Administrator: role(Subject Matter Expert;groups) == [[email protected]]
**INFO** c.c.d.c.api.component.LoggerApiImpl - Academic Administrator: role(Subject Matter Expert;grouped by) == [[email protected]]

When run from Academic Manager Business Term…

**WARN** c.c.d.c.w.a.bean.AbstractUsersBean - User expression: role(Subject Matter Expert;groups) did not resolve to a user
**INFO** c.c.d.c.api.component.LoggerApiImpl - Academic Manager: role(Subject Matter Expert;groups) == []
**WARN** c.c.d.c.w.a.bean.AbstractUsersBean - User expression: role(Subject Matter Expert;grouped by) did not resolve to a user
**INFO** c.c.d.c.api.component.LoggerApiImpl - Academic Manager: role(Subject Matter Expert;grouped by) == []

And… Am I missing something? Why does it not come up blank when the source asset and the co-role are specified? In your case, I would have expected:

When run from BestCommentId …

role(Business Steward;contains) == []
role(Business Steward;is part of) == [[email protected]]

And when run from FeedItem …

role(Business Steward;contains) == [[email protected]]
role(Business Steward;is part of) == []

arthurburkhardt

·3 years ago · Edited

Ah… Interesting.

When run from BestCommentId …

role(Business Steward;contains) == [[email protected]]
role(Business Steward;is part of) == [[email protected]]

And when run from FeedItem …

User expression: role(Business Steward;contains) did not resolve to a user
role(Business Steward;contains) == []
User expression: role(Business Steward;is part of) did not resolve to a user
role(Business Steward;is part of) == []

It looks like the user expression does not care about the role or co-role, and only works from source to target, not the other way around.
I guess it would be safer to stop using this type of user expression and focus on querying through the workflow APIs instead.

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