Dynamically assigning users to useraction

If you're assigning your UserAction to a User (instead of a Task), even if you assign that user ID to a variable, once the flow hits the UserAction, it uses the variable value to push to the User's Inbasket and you can't simply change the variable value for reassignment. You can go into the WorkUnit and Add a secondary assignment record for the UserAction, but it would have to be handled outside of the WorkUnit - either manually or by a second flow. If you built this new flow and triggered it with the old and new user values, it should be able to find and add the new user value on any pending approvals (you have to add the new user and delete the old user assignment - you can't change the value).

What if reassignment was an action in the user action? That way, that user action ends, you could update the user variable with the new user it is supposed to go to, and then put it back to the user action node.

You can set the Reassign value using a variable, but it seems the need is to do this apart from the TimeOut function. Once the UserAction is initiated you can't change the variable value.

Couldn't you create an action that was reassign? And have the user doing the reassigning enter the new user in the comments or something similar? And have the reassign process loop back to the initial useraction after an assign node reassigns the variable from the comment? I haven't tried this and am purely speculating. It sounds like you have user interaction involved with the reassignment, so I would think this would be possible.

Kyle

Yes, Kyle, you could do that. I’ve done something similar.
I guess I assumed the first user was no longer an approver and someone needed to reassign the work - but if the current approver needed to push to a different one, then you can build that as part of the process.

Thanks All, Adding a reassign action seems to have worked. The only quirk seems to be to have to create a single user task to handle cases being reassigned from a task with filters to a single user.

One more question: how can I check if the user actor id passed is a valid one. Is there a landmark query that i can do to check if the actor passed in variable exists before reassigning to it.

Yeah, do a landmark query first, I think it would be the pfiuser business class.