what is the difference initiator and loggedInUser

Hi Surya

Basically is LoggedInUser is a Appian inbuilt function and pp!initiator is a process property.

docs.appian.com/.../fnc_people_loggedinuser.html

We can use loggedInuser in process model as well. But the significance difference is that we might have 2 or more different loggedIn user for a process as process model may consists of n numbers of task which may assigned or performed by different user. But in case of process initiator, pp!initiator stored the user information who initiate/started the process initially/firstly.

That is why we are using initiator for process and loggedInUser at the task level(UI).

Thanks
Aditya

Hi Surya

Basically is LoggedInUser is a Appian inbuilt function and pp!initiator is a process property.

docs.appian.com/.../fnc_people_loggedinuser.html

We can use loggedInuser in process model as well. But the significance difference is that we might have 2 or more different loggedIn user for a process as process model may consists of n numbers of task which may assigned or performed by different user. But in case of process initiator, pp!initiator stored the user information who initiate/started the process initially/firstly.

That is why we are using initiator for process and loggedInUser at the task level(UI).

Thanks
Aditya

Thanks for the clarification Aditya!

Is that Same difference for Process initiator and Process Designer?

if not please explain

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Initiator and loggedInUser do not return the same values! The Appian documentation says:

"If there is no user context, such as when used in an expression in a node output, loggedInUser() returns "Administrator"."

So be careful with this!

I use loggedInUser() in interfaces only.