What is a User Signal?
Understand what a User Signal is and how it is configured.
Overview
The Advanced User package must be installed.
User Signals allow Process designers to react to changes to user accounts. When a change occurs to a user account, a BPMN 2.0 Signal event triggers; any Process that subscribes to that Signal can react. The Signal includes a payload containing that user’s data as a data array.
Below is a description of each user-type event and the Signal ID value to use for its corresponding Signal.
User-Type Event | Description of Event | Signal ID |
Create |
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Delete |
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Read | A user account is accessed in either of the following ways: |
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Update |
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When a User Signal event triggers, the following occurs:
That User Signal broadcasts the
_userMagic Variable containing the user account affected by that User Signal event. For example, the full name set in the affected user account is accessible with JSON dot notation as_user.fullname. See the_userMagic Variable to reference any JSON object within this Magic Variable.The User Signal event broadcasts any User Enhanced Properties and the affected user account's corresponding values.
Learn about Collection Signals.
