How to know which user is running the workflow for a page?

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October 16, 2015
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I am not able to fetch the user name, like who is running the workflow for a particular page. The issue is

1. Since workflow uses admin session, session.getUserId() always returns "admin".

2. Payload's cq:lastModifiedBy property is also not changing because the payload is locked during the workflow, and doesn't let non-admins write to its jcr:content

Is there any other way to know which user is running the workflow ??

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Best answer by kautuk_sahni

Hi lokesh waran

You can look at "Workflow Archive tab" where you can get the information about

Status: The status of the workflow.
Initiator: The AEM user whom started the workflow
Start Time: The start time.
End Time: The end time.
Workflow Model: The workflow model
Model version: The verison of the workflow
Payload: The content (for example, a page) on which the workflow is used.

Link:- https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/Workflows.html

Option 2 "Participant chooser service"

"workItem.getWorkflow().getInitiator();"

Link:- https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/cq/5-6/workflows/wf-ref/workflow_steps.html#Dynamic Participant Step

I hope this would help you.

Thanks and Regards

Kautuk Sahni

K

kevins60765058

Employee

Hi Jt Jayati,

Did you ever find a solution to your problem. I have the very same issue in my code as we've recently upgraded our code and now our workflow is throwing that same exception.

Thanks,

krs

Jt_Jayati

New Participant

When i try to impersonate wfSession to initiator this throws exception : javax.security.auth.login.FailedLoginException: Impersonation not allowed.
I necessarily need initiator's session to trigger some task in my workflow, earlier i used to get this using :
initiatorSession= adminSession.impersonate(new SimpleCredentials(initiatorUser,"".toCharArray()));

where adminSession is now deprecated and we use system users now, and so i cannot impersonate system user to initiator user, any suggestions?