how to get prvious task id.....

hi,
I wnat to get the prvious task id.... I have generated dynamic user task. I am connecting all those tasks to OR condition.My scenario, if anyone of the dynamic users rejects the task,i want to track who rejects .i used wfvarfinishop element,but is not bringing the correct output.

suppose,

if i have reviewer1,reviwer2, rev 3 and they are dynamically created.also they are connected to an OR.my need is,if reviewer1 rejects , i need his task id or name.but if i use wfvarfinishop it brought the reviewer 3 (because rev 3 is inactivated last) name.

can you suggest me to come out of this problem??

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kaalraa

I have generated dynamic user task.

Are you saying as per number of reviewers selected ... you have generated one user task for each? If yes, then why you are not using a group task which can bve shared along all the reviewers?

if anyone of the dynamic users rejects the task,i want to track who rejects

If you can use a Group Task instead... the reviewer who takes up the task would be owner of the task and your problem would be solved.

if i have reviewer1,reviwer2, rev 3 and they are dynamically created.also they are connected to an OR.my need is,if reviewer1 rejects , i need his task id or name.but if i use wfvarfinishop it brought the reviewer 3 (because rev 3 is inactivated last) name.

Could you please attach the code snippet of your workflow... where you have used wfvarfinishop? I have used it before and it is working as required.

Migrateduser

hi,
I wnat to get the prvious task id.... I have generated dynamic user task. I am connecting all those tasks to OR condition.My scenario, if anyone of the dynamic users rejects the task,i want to track who rejects .i used wfvarfinishop element,but is not bringing the correct output.

suppose,

if i have reviewer1,reviwer2, rev 3 and they are dynamically created.also they are connected to an OR.my need is,if reviewer1 rejects , i need his task id or name.but if i use wfvarfinishop it brought the reviewer 3 (because rev 3 is inactivated last) name.

can you suggest me to come out of this problem??

You can use the iwgetwfobj taskid to get the information. You need to parse the xml out to the previous task that activated this task.

phanee

Are you saying as per number of reviewers selected ... you have generated one user task for each? If yes, then why you are not using a group task which can bve shared along all the reviewers?
If you can use a Group Task instead... the reviewer who takes up the task would be owner of the task and your problem would be solved.
Could you please attach the code snippet of your workflow... where you have used wfvarfinishop? I have used it before and it is working as required.

hi my senario here does not allow me to use group task since all the selected reviwers have to approve the in the case of a group task if any one reviewer approves the task transits but i need approval from all the reviewers.

and i have attached a sample wft code which i used for testing here the number of reviewer are fixed but in my actual senario the number of reviewers are many and are dynamically generated.The senario is like this if any of the reviewer rejects then i need to know who rejected it and if all approve then i do deplyoment.

phanee

You can use the iwgetwfobj taskid to get the information. You need to parse the xml out to the previous task that activated this task.

i could not get any usefull information iwgetwfobj taskid since it returns something like this


<predecessors>
    <predecessor hasactivated=f id=22978>
</predecessors>

the hasactivated=f doesnot give me the correct info always

so i tried iwgetwfobj jobid and parsed the event history
the code is like this

sub get_prev_taskid
{
my($taskId) = @_;
(my $iwhome = TeamSite::Config::iwgethome()) =~ tr|\\|/|;

my $command = "$iwhome\\bin\\iwgetwfobj $jobId";
#my $taskname = "TaskActivate";
my $pretaskid;

my $output = `$command `;

#print F " iwgetwfobj output \n";
#print F " $output ";

my $rootnode = TeamSite::XMLnode->new($output);

my $eventsnode = $rootnode->get_node('events');
@all_event_nodes = $eventsnode->get_node_list();

foreach $event (@all_event_nodes)
{
if(($event->value('@task') eq $taskId) and ($event->value('@name') eq "TaskActivate"))
{
$pretaskid = $event->value('@other');
print F "current taskid : $taskId , previous taskid : $pretaskid";
}
}
return $pretaskid;
}

this worked for me please tell if there is any bug in this function.

ISCBorisB

please tell if there is any bug in this function.

Please note that WFJob and WFTask objects' structure and especially object changes on WF events
are proprietary. Documentation/support on that is extremely limited. So, only Interwoven engineers can
tell you exactly if your approach is a good one.

That said, I did fair amount of WF objects parsing and your idea does not look promising. Try it on *real*
WF rejecting approvals few times and looping back to Content Contributor tasks and you will see what
I mean immediately. Batasari gave you a good advise. You do that by task, parsing out the last entry with
hasactivated="t" (you can have more than one)

Btw, I'm not at all convinced you need any of that hacking in the first place. Your use case looks fairly standard
(what little you've explained) and the attachment is just a POC to test external task. It does not even fork to
"approve/reject" which is supposedly the whole reason for all that. Perhaps if you explain what the issue really is
somebody will be able to help