Get Job From Task

Ok, this may be a realy newbie question, but I honestly can't find the answer in the manuals. Given task with ID x, how do i find out its parent job?

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akshathp

Ok, this may be a realy newbie question, but I honestly can't find the answer in the manuals. Given task with ID x, how do i find out its parent job?

Did you try searching in forums for parent task?
Here's a thread already posted on this topic...
http://devnet.interwoven.com/forums_vb/showthread.php?t=15754&forumid=16

Hope this helps!

danpetrikin

Not quite...
I need to be able to get a hold of the owning job, not task, of any given task. Boss wants job description to show next to task description in the ccstd portlet... which is a whole other mess, so i need to be able to link up a given task to it's owning job in order to capture its description.

akshathp

Not quite...
I need to be able to get a hold of the owning job, not task, of any given task. Boss wants job description to show next to task description in the ccstd portlet... which is a whole other mess, so i need to be able to link up a given task to it's owning job in order to capture its description.

where are you trying to get this information? I mean, is it a workflow and you have an external task that is getting this info? If so, then external task already gets all this.

Please provide more details on what is the scenario and where are you calling the script from to do this.

danpetrikin

I need to gather this information, put it in a java object, and place it in a jsp so i can make a portlet to replace the my_tasks portlet. It needs to be able to show up right next to Task description in the ccstd portlet... so i'd be well outside a workflow. However, if i can do it with an external task can i assume it's just perl code i could manipulate outside of a workflow?

Adam Stoller

I need to gather this information, put it in a java object, and place it in a jsp so i can make a portlet to replace the my_tasks portlet. It needs to be able to show up right next to Task description in the ccstd portlet... so i'd be well outside a workflow. However, if i can do it with an external task can i assume it's just perl code i could manipulate outside of a workflow?

If you have a TeamSite::WFtask object (e.g. $task) you can use $task->GetWorkflowId() - but I'm guessing you're using Java not Perl here - so I think (having never programmed with the CSSDK) it would be something like having a CSTask object and using either the method getWorkflow() - which returns a CSWorkflow object, or getWorkflowId() - which returns the workflow's ID from which you could probably create the associated workflow object. Given what you're trying to do - I'm thinking the former is what you want.

Bill Klish

You would query the CSWorkflowEngine object using the getWorkflowsByQuery() method, where you would provide the criteria to search for (user = current user for example).

This will return you a list of CSWorkflow objects, from which you can get your description and active task information.

PaulW

or you could do something like the following:

CSTask task = CSWorkflowEngine.getTask(int taskId);
int jobId = task.getWorkflowId()