How can I send notifications to an specific role or user programmatically using workflows

Issue

• How can I assign workflow tasks to multiple users by Scripted Assignment, but not by assigning tasks to a role?

Environment

• Quarterly releases
• 7.4
• 7.3

Resolution

• One common requirement is to notify specific roles or users within an organization when certain logic occur, in case of additional implementation needed to notify users or roles, scripted-assignment functionality can be implemented inside notification task. 

• You can find an example below:

  <notification>
  
            <name>Review Notification</name>
  
            <description>
  
            <![CDATA[]]>
  
            </description>
  
            <template>
  
            <![CDATA[${userName} sent you a ${entryType} for review in
            the workflow.
  
            ]]>
  
            </template>
  
            <template-language>freemarker</template-language>
  
            <notification-type>email</notification-type>
  
            <notification-type>user-notification</notification-type>
  
            <recipients receptionType="to">
  
            <scripted-recipient>
  
            <script>
  
            <![CDATA[
  
            import com.liferay.portal.kernel.model.Role
  
            import com.liferay.portal.kernel.service.RoleLocalServiceUtil
  
            import com.liferay.portal.kernel.service.ServiceContext
  
            import com.liferay.portal.kernel.workflow.WorkflowConstants
  
  
            ServiceContext serviceContext = (ServiceContext)workflowContext.get(WorkflowConstants.CONTEXT_SERVICE_CONTEXT)
  
            long roleId = (long)serviceContext.getAttribute("roleIdKey")
  
            Role roleRecipient = RoleLocalServiceUtil.getRole(roleId)
  
  
            user=null
  
            roles = [roleRecipient]
  
            ]]>
  
            </script>
  
            <script-language>groovy</script-language>
  
            </scripted-recipient>
  
            </recipients>
  
            <execution-type>onAssignment</execution-type>
  
            </notification>
          

Additional Information

• Assigning task nodes