Concurrent Review Task - reject problem

Sharty

Hi all,

I am having a problem with a concurrent review Task.
I am using the Solution Workflows on a TeamSite 6.1 (NT) Installation.

The thing is, that the customer would like to have a reject in that way, that everybody does have the opportunity to make their comments, even when one of the other reviewers does reject the signoff phase.
The default behaviour of the solution workflow using concurrent grouptasks is, that it is directly going back to the author. The other reviewer tasks do get inactive in this behaviour.

What do I have to change in order to have this problem fixed? I would like to have all the reviewers being able to make some comments.

Thanks for any help.

Best Regards

Jens

*snippets of the code - initial code is from assignment solution workflow *

if ($review_type eq "concurrent") {
link_tasks('start_review_cycle', $this_email_task_id, $done_label);
link_tasks($this_review_task_id, 'approve_review', $approve_label);
link_tasks($this_review_task_id, 'reject_review', $reject_label);
# IMPROVEMENT: Add this task to reject_review's inactivate.
}


if ($review_type eq "concurrent") {
# If start_review_cycle has no successors (which can happen if
# there are no review tasks) then short-circuit.
unless (defined(get_task_property('start_review_cycle', 'successors'))) {
link_tasks('start_review_cycle', 'approve_review', $done_label);
}
link_tasks('approve_review', 'email_author', $done_label);
link_tasks('reject_review', 'assigned_email_author', $done_label);
set_task_property('reject_review', 'resets', ['approve_review']);
}

Adam Stoller

Hmm - not sure of the exact coding - but basically you need to map it out based on all the combinations of possibilities.

If you have 3 review tasks (A, B, C) you would need conditional clauses like:

activate post-review-approved task

if (A="approve" AND B="approve" AND C="approve")

activate post-review-rejected task

if (
    (A="reject"  AND B="reject"  AND C="reject" )
 OR (A="reject"  AND B="reject"  AND C="approve")
 OR (A="reject"  AND B="approve" AND C="reject" )
 OR (A="reject"  AND B="approve" AND C="approve")
 OR (A="approve" AND B="reject"  AND C="reject" )
 OR (A="approve" AND B="reject"  AND C="approve")
 OR (A="approve" AND B="approve" AND C="reject" )
   )

The more reviewers you have, the larger the compound conditional clause grows and you'd have to link the combinations through AND "tasks" and then link the sets of combinations through OR "tasks".

It can be done, but it will probably take a fair amount of work.

There might be a simpler way - but I cannot think of one right now.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com