Introduction

This sample demonstrates how to use authorization for your business processes. It covers how to:

• specify the set of potential starters of a business process by using a human task,
• specify the administrators of a business process using administrative tasks,
• try out which users match the specified staff role by running the staff resolution in test mode.

Prerequisites

This sample relies on the federated user repository VMM (Virtual Member Manager) that is shipped with WebSphere Process Server 6.2. In order to use this sample, you have to ensure that a group sellers exists on your system and that several users are members of that group. This ensures that the owner of the parent task is allowed to retrieve the output messages of the subtasks, although in the template used for subtask creation none of the security role privileges are granted to the owner of the parent task.

These user groups and users can be created running a command line script.

If you are using Windows (TM) and have administrator privileges for the WebSphere Application Server, then a simple command line script for adding the required groups and users may look like this:
ADDUSERS1.BAT

Similarly, these user groups and users can be deleted again after finishing this sample; a simple command line script for Windows looks like this:
DELETEUSERS1.BAT

Note that you may have to customize these command line scripts to reflect:

• your WebSphere Integration Developer installation directory;
• the port used to connect to the server;
• administrator userid and password.