Acting User Support

As a workflow designer, you have to think about the users that run the transitions and the permissions they have to have to do some of the things you want the transition to accomplish. This support allows you to have the action work as if it is being done by another user. This means that different permissions can apply. The authentication context is not changed, just permissions evaluated according to the acting user. For instance, the initiating user may not have permission to add watchers or setting assignee. It also allows substitution variables and settings related to who is the transition user to be change to the acting user. A new substitution variable is available if you still need to access the real user: %transition_user_id% and %transition_user_name%. The default is to have the acting user to be the same as the transition user, so everything defaults as before.

Improvements

1. Option for automatic assignee based on project and component configuration.
2. More substitution variables like %entry_project_lead%.
3. Fixes - see below.

Resolved Issues