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Changing the sender of a task in Process Portal

When tasks are generated at run time and sent to the assigned participant, the default sender is the tw_admin user. This default value is set in the 99Local.xml configuration file. You can override the default sender by editing server properties in the 100Custom.xml file.

The task sender name appears in the Sent From field in Process Portal.


Procedure

  1. Stop the IBM Process Server.
  2. Open the Event Manager system configuration file and your local configuration file in text editors.

    • PROFILE_HOME\config\cells\ cell_name\nodes\ node_name\servers\ server_name\process-server\config\system\99Local.xml
    • PROFILE_HOME\config\cells\ cell_name\nodes\ node_name\servers\ server_name\process-server\config\100Custom.xml

  3. Copy the following section from the 99Local.xml file to the 100Custom.xml file.
    <server>
    	<bpd-engine>
    
    	<user-to-create-task>[custom_task_sender_name]</user-to-create-task>
    
    	</bpd-engine>
    </server>

  4. In the 100Custom.xml file, edit the element to include the name of the task sender and set the merge attribute. In the following example, the task sender is set to tw_author.
    <server merge="mergeChildren">
    	<bpd-engine merge="mergeChildren">
    
    	<user-to-create-task merge="replace">tw_author</user-to-create-task>
    
    	</bpd-engine>
    </server>
  5. Save your changes, and then close both the 100Custom.xml file and the 99Local.xml file.

  6. Start the IBM Process Server.

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Related concepts:
The 99Local.xml and 100Custom.xml configuration files