Feedback on Task status to User

Hi All,

I have a task in hand which is to notify the user about the status of the task happening in my workflow.

Workflow will start once the user clicks FINISH button on the DCR.

Say there are 5 tasks and after each task transition i must notify the person(workflow initiator) the status.

The notification must be in a small popup
which says

**********************
Work in Progress
**********************

Task 1 : Data form saved....
Task 2 : Page 1 Generated
Task 3 : Page 2 Generated
Task 4 : Page 3 Generated
Task 5 : Page 4 Failed
________
(__ok___)

**********************

that was a ok button Smiley Happy

Anyone who has done this before?

Thanks,
Manikandan

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kaalraa

Hi All,

I have a task in hand which is to notify the user about the status of the task happening in my workflow.

Workflow will start once the user clicks FINISH button on the DCR.

Say there are 5 tasks and after each task transition i must notify the person(workflow initiator) the status.

The notification must be in a small popup
which says

**********************
Work in Progress
**********************

Task 1 : Data form saved....
Task 2 : Page 1 Generated
Task 3 : Page 2 Generated
Task 4 : Page 3 Generated
Task 5 : Page 4 Failed
________
(__ok___)
**********************
that was a ok button
Anyone who has done this before?
Thanks,
Manikandan

A DCR can talk to external scripts only through callserver method and workflow is far apart than DCR. However, you can use mail notification after each completed task.

Sailesh

can you give brief about your workflow, what extactly it is doing?? As if there is user interaction required then you need to notify the user in any case, that can in form of email or task in your todo list.

Nemam_Mani

Hi,

I think the point was not conveyed.

The DCR event(finish) kicks starts the workflow.

The workflow generates 4 html pages from the same dcr and 4 diffrent tpls,

Sends mail to a user group. While all the events happen in the background there must be a status window in the front end which must notify the user who fires the workflow(by clicking finish on DCR) the these events are happening/success/failed.

Any clarifications? My query is how to buid that status window?

Pls revert if still not clear

Regards,
Manikandan

kaalraa

Hi,

I think the point was not conveyed.

The DCR event(finish) kicks starts the workflow.

The workflow generates 4 html pages from the same dcr and 4 diffrent tpls,

Sends mail to a user group. While all the events happen in the background there must be a status window in the front end which must notify the user who fires the workflow(by clicking finish on DCR) the these events are happening/success/failed.

Any clarifications? My query is how to buid that status window?

Pls revert if still not clear

Regards,
Manikandan

As mentioned earlier, a workflow can not be mapped with a DCR working process. They both act as 2 different identities. The DCT work is to initiate a workflow and workflow's work is to transit from a series on tasks.

All again, you have to have notify user through mail or putting a user interactive task after each sucessful completion of working task.

Nemam_Mani

Hi Kaalraa,

I am firing the workflow using cmd tt_data.(save event also work on finish)
In workflow which is a series of tasks, my notification must also pitch in.

Requirement is as what i said cant be changed to mail task.

Regards,
Manikandan

Adam Stoller

Hi,

I think the point was not conveyed.

The DCR event(finish) kicks starts the workflow.

The workflow generates 4 html pages from the same dcr and 4 diffrent tpls,

Sends mail to a user group. While all the events happen in the background there must be a status window in the front end which must notify the user who fires the workflow(by clicking finish on DCR) the these events are happening/success/failed.

Any clarifications? My query is how to buid that status window?

Pls revert if still not clear

Regards,
Manikandan

Are you using the tt_data functionality to kick off the workflow, or doing it yourself with a FormAPI callserver script?

I think you'd want the latter in order to maintain information about the jobid so you can use it for your workflow monitoring application (which you are going to be designing) - which would have to monitor the event log for the specific job. How you launch and interact with your monitor - I'm not sure about - but heck, that's part of the design work that you need to do.

Unless you were asking whether there was something OOTB that did this for you - in which case - the answer is "no".