Assignee Fields
Liferay DXP 2025.Q4+/Portal 2026.Q1+
Assignee fields are for selecting existing users or roles in the object entry.
Assigned users can edit the entry with no manual permission updates required. If, however, the assignee does not already have view permission, the entry isn’t visible for editing in object displays, and no notifications are sent.
You can use assignee fields with Camunda processes to help manage user interaction tasks from Liferay. For example, if a user must review an entry that’s added by the outbound connector, you can set the status to draft and set the assignee to the user or role that must review the entry. In Liferay you can add a data set filtered by the assignee field and notify assignees when a review is required.
Notifying Assignees
If the object definition includes an assignee field, you can set up a notification action and a notification template to notify assignees. Use the [%OBJECTNAME_ASSIGNEE%] term in the Recipients field.
Using the Assign to Me Action
Object definitions with an assignee field have a system-generated manual action called Assign to Me. You can map a button to this action so users can conveniently claim ownership of a review process.
Filtering by Assignee
You can filter object entries by assignee in GET API calls using the assigneeUserExternalReferenceCode parameter.
