Comments on: Prepopulate Form with Logged in user info in LiveCycle ES

By: Rolando

Rolando — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:26:47 +0000

There are different ways you can achieve that, but I think you’re a bit confused here. Normally the initiator is completely unknown until the form is rendered because you have a range of possible users that can login to the system and open the form. After stage one, however you’re using the “Assign Task” this means you somehow need to know the user prior to rendering the form in order to “assign” the task. Therefore, you don’t need to inject the user info at rendering time, but you can do that before the “Assign Task”.

So, in a nutshell, once the first user submits the form:
- you get the next user’s info
- using Xpath you assign the values you want from the next user to the XML data of the form
- then you use the assign task
Once the form is rendered the next time it will have the new user’s info.

This applies to whether you hard-code the user in the assign task or even if you use a variable to dynamically assign the user.

Hope this helps

-Rolando

By: bpmuser

bpmuser — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:07:26 +0000

Hi Ronaldo,
I am able to prepopulate data on the form. however I have a question where I need to get the current user info at every stage..ie., I am getting the originator info by prepoulation, but in stage 2 I need to also get the current user who logged in to the system..Is this possible?
Hope I iwll get response..
Thanks in advance!

By: Elaine

Elaine — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:18:08 +0000

Hi Roland, thanks for this post. Can you provide more detail on the main process? Is it connected to the render process or does your main process only refer to the render process? Thanks

By: Riccardo

Riccardo — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:03:40 +0000

hi,

I was wondering are you Rolando Pagunsan Lopez?

if you are I'm Riccardo D.L. hope you remember me

By: Rolando

Rolando — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:14:42 +0000

@John,

To extract the form's XML data and place it into an XML variable, all you have to do is use the same "SetValue" activity (first activity of the process) and add a list entry that relfeces the following:

Location = /process_data/xmlData

Expression = /process_data/@inDocData

By doing this LiveCycle will know that all you want is the XML part of inDocData variable and will assign it to xmlData.

By: John D

John D — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:43:40 +0000

@Roland,

Is there any way you could provide me with a .lca file that I could take a look at? I am really under the gun to get this project complete.

Thanks!!

John

By: John D

John D — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:57:56 +0000

Roland,

Thank you for your time. I am actually stuck at number 2. I think I have a good idea on the rest and have some of those parts built but Number 2 is it right now.

Thanks in advance!

John

By: Rolando

Rolando — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:25:32 +0000

@John,

I can definitely get into more details. I need to know, however, where is it that you’re stuck at. As I mentioned at the beginning, there are certain things you need to understand before being able to follow this post. I just decided not to get into those details because then this post would be even longer I’ll be very glad to help you, just let me know where to start.

By: John D

John D — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:34:10 +0000

Do you have any more detail on this? I am very new to LCES 8.0 and I am having a tough time getting this to work.

Thanks in advance!