Activiti Initiator Properties using Explorer

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I'm using Activiti as a workflow tool for my application. Using Activiti as a backend, I'm creating a wrapper over it that interacts with it using the Activiti REST API.

To model the process, I use the Activiti Modeler which is part of Activiti Explorer.

While creating a process I specify the activiti:initiator to be employeeName in the start event, which I can then use in any other task's documentation as ${employeeName}

But the variable employeeName stores the ID of the user. If in any other user task's documentation, I need to use the first and last name properties of employeeName, how would I do that?

I've already tried snippets from elsewhere saying to use ${employeeName.properties.firstName} to no avail. It gives an error when the process starts.

PS: since it is a web application, only REST API is used with HTML / PHP, no java code is written. So probably a suggestion how to do it in Activiti Explorer or Modeler itself.

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activitibusiness-process-management

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Perhaps I am missing the point of the question, but there is a REST API that will return the user's details. From memory it is GET /service/identity/users/{userId}

Obviously if you are using a different Rest Context then "service" will be your actual context.

Hope this helps.

Greg - BP3