how to get previous task

HI ,
I want to get the name of my previous task. From which task this current task is called?
I need it very badly...

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I do not think there is a command to do that, but here are 2 ideas.

1. try WFworkflow::GetTasks

That should provide a list of the tasks, I have never looked so I do not know if it gives a list of all tasks, or a list of ones that have already executed.

2. set a WF variable in each of the possibilities, prev_task=foo. Then read that.

HTH

Andy

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HI ,
I want to get the name of my previous task. From which task this current task is called?
I need it very badly...

The issue has been raised many times before, you can search DevNet with the pattern 'predecessor' for example.
Basically, you'll find that proposed solutions are flavors of two fundamental options:

a) Get and parse Workflow objects, as raw XML or with (some) help from TeamSite::WFutils.
All of that is neither trivial nor documented/supported by IWOV.

b) You set up this information yourself in the predecessor task(s) so that required task can access it.
My favorite is to use "wfvarfinishop" attribute of the user/group tasks to set the callback value for the (following) externaltask task.

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