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Defining the people assignment criteria
People assignment criteria are constructs used in the task model to identify sets of people that can be assigned to an instance-based authorization role. At run time, the people resolution uses the people assignment criteria to retrieve the user IDs and other user information, for example, for composing emails.
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People assignment criteria.
- Predefined people assignment criteria
Predefined people assignment criteria are provided for retrieving sets of users from people directories. - Customize people assignment criteria
You can also extend the set of predefined people assignment criteria by customizing your own criteria.
- Create queries
When an application is deployed, people assignment criteria definitions are transformed into sets of queries that are specific to a people directory configuration. The resulting people queries are stored with the task template in the Business Process Choreographer database. - Ownership patterns
When you assign potential owners to a human task you can establish a pattern of ownership. This pattern defines whether users can simultaneously interact with the task. Depending on the ownership pattern, you can also define completion conditions, propagation of user roles and aggregation options.