Please see this link: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/241341

I'm only using this as an example to show what I'm referring to.

My question is how I can convert from the user's name to the internal ID assigned to each user. I need to query for WorkObjects that are assigned to the logged-in user, but I don't know what value I should specify in my query for F_BoundUser.

Here's another example support page that talks about this internal ID. Again, this is only to show what I'm referring to by "internal ID": https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/126055

Hi Steve,

You can convert a username to a userid using vwtool convert command:

<vwtool::1>convert

Convert:

t - Time number to string

s - String to time number

e - Error tuple to three part

p - Three part error to error tuple

l - Log event type number to string

i - User id to user name

n - User name to user id

g - Convert guid string

If you need any additional user info, you can use the vwtool env view command:

<vwtool::1>env

View/ Statistic/ Inconsistency/ Cache/ Notification/ Remove environment records (CR=v,s,i,c,n,r): v

Cached or persistent environment records (CR=c, p): p

Name, '*' for all env records: p8admin

Name: p8admin

Realm: dc=vmmrealm

DisplayName:p8admin

DN: uid=p8admin,o=defaultwimfilebasedrealm

Id: 50

SID: S-1-98-842282037-912470115-1684169261-859057505-1630351926-761672248-1631139384-825570356-943273271-67108864

WebAppl: 10

DB Time stamp: 07/15/22 10:26 AM

Developing a Java app, you can use the VWSession.convertUserNameToId method.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.5.x?topic=development-process-java-api-reference

Converts a user name in three-part format (name:domain:organization) to a user ID. This method invokes a call to the Process Engine if there has been no previous server call to get user names. If the system does not find the user name, internally the method performs an additional RPC to retrieve an updated list of user names.

Hope that helps!

--Joseph

Thank Joe, that's exactly what I needed!

For others reading this, I also found this useful when I needed the ID for the logged-in user:

vwSession.fetchCurrentUserInfo().getNamePx().getUserId();