How to generate review group dynamically?

Aleks

I need help for generating review group dynamically.

Here is the case.
1. we have 4 groups.(call A, B, C, and D groups)
2. authors and reviewers belong to one of these four groups.
3. the process of review is primary reivew group to approve content first, then send to the rest of 3 groups to approve content by concurrently.
4. then go to the other steps to deploy the content,which is fine.

My question is:
When author edit the content, then select this dcr, create a new job for review.
The author don't need to select which group, the first review group(primary review gruop) will be known automatically because author and first review are in the same group. Next, the other 3 review groups(as secondary review) will be picked up for their review task dynamically.

For example, author and primary reviewer in the same group called C. Since job created by author, primary reviewer(C group) will know we are the next to review because of the same group. Then rest 3 review groups will be A, B, D for the secondary review circle.

Is it possible to make this happen?

Any helps will be appreciated.

Ale

TS 6.7.1 Win2003

Adam Stoller

I need help for generating review group dynamically. Here is the case. 1. we have 4 groups.(call A, B, C, and D groups) 2. authors and reviewers belong to one of these four groups. 3. the process of review is primary reivew group to approve content first, then send to the rest of 3 groups to approve content by concurrently. 4. then go to the other steps to deploy the content,which is fine. My question is: When author edit the content, then select this dcr, create a new job for review. The author don't need to select which group, the first review group(primary review gruop) will be known automatically because author and first review are in the same group. Next, the other 3 review groups(as secondary review) will be picked up for their review task dynamically. For example, author and primary reviewer in the same group called C. Since job created by author, primary reviewer(C group) will know we are the next to review because of the same group. Then rest 3 review groups will be A, B, D for the secondary review circle. Is it possible to make this happen? Any helps will be appreciated. Ale TS 6.7.1 Win2003

Yes, this is possible, but it will require some coding on your part so that the determination of primary vs. secondary can be made.

In "old" WFTs you would do this with Perl code within the WFT in which you would store the 4 group names somewhere (a hash or array) and then you would determine the primary group for __VALUE__('iw_user'); - once you determine $primary_group, which you assign as the sharedby for the initial review - you can then also take the remaining @groups (or keys %groups) and associate each of those groups with the sharedby element for each of the concurrent secondary review tasks.

In "new" WFMs I believe you would either need to do this through javascript code or, more likely, by writing a java utility to be called during the workflow instantiation process. As I haven't had a need to do this yet, I'd simply point you to looking at the manual for more information.