WFTask SetOwner()

incognita

I have a WFTask object, and want to reset it's owner (from within a cgi task).
It's supposed to return 0 on success and nonzero in the event of an error. On printing the return value, its empty. And the user of the next task ("User") is not changed either.

my($success,$next_task)=$thisjob->GetTaskByName("User");
print 'return value is' , $next_task->SetOwner("username here"), "\n";

Is there something wrong in what i'm doing?

Adam Stoller

I have a WFTask object, and want to reset it's owner (from within a cgi task). It's supposed to return 0 on success and nonzero in the event of an error. On printing the return value, its empty. And the user of the next task ("User") is not changed either. my($success,$next_task)=$thisjob->GetTaskByName("User"); print 'return value is' , $next_task->SetOwner("username here"), "\n"; Is there something wrong in what i'm doing?

You're not checking the return result of GetTaskByName (the value in $success) - but assuming that worked, the SetOwner call should work provided that the owner specified is legitimate / someone who has access to that branch / workarea.

Perhaps try:

...
$next_task->SetOwner($newowner);
$next_task->Refresh();
my $test = $next_task->GetOwner();
if ($test ne $newowner) {
   # ERROR
}