Some administrative jobs should be executed on a regular basis. For that purpose, administrative jobs like role assignments or data exports can be run automatically.

Administrators can upload scripts via the Administration > Jobs and select the execution frequence via a cron expression.

The existing Facade API can be used to navigate through the process content. For example, to assign a user named userName to a role named roleName in a workspace workspacePath, use the following code:

var user = stages.getUserByUsername(userName);
var project = stages.getProjectByPath(workspacePath);
if (user != null && project != null) {
    var roles = project.getEntities("containsProcess@SYSTEM")[0].getEntities("containsRole@SYSTEM");
    for (var i = 0; i <roles.length; i++) {
   var role = roles[i];
        if (role.getProperty("DisplayName") == roleName) {
            commands.execute(commands.newAssignUserCommand(role, [user]));
        }
    }
}

Sample scripts can be downloaded here:

• Role assignment via an Excel sheet that is managed as a file instance in a Stages process
• Data export to an external SQL table

Please note, that these scripts are just samples and need to be adjusted to your local environment to be run.

Future Stages versions will allow to also perform other administrative tasks.