View all allows editors to transistion tasks

We have a workflow job owned by user x created by user y and a task owned by user z.

The workarea is owned by user x and is shared with a group all users are in. When user y (the creator, but not the job or task owner and logged in as an editor) views all jobs they can transistion the the task!! How can i stop this

lee c

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Migrateduser

Set the wf creator to someone else, like "root" or "administrator".

bw

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Lee

Just read the techNote below (Honest i'd searched before posting, the interwoven search is really poor. talk about hit and miss.) Is it really true that their is noway to prevent users seeing the transistion options. leec

TechNote: 2459

Title: How to Prevent a User's Ability to Approve any Workflow task

Date Created: 2001-11-08 15:03:06
Date Modified: 2002-11-02 15:09:32

Synopsis:

If a user instantiates a workflow, by default he will be able to commandeer any task in the workflow by going to view --> All jobs. This can be prevented

Details:

Steps to make sure the workflow instantiator cannot commandeer any tasks other than task assigned to him

1) Create a TeamSite Master account (e.g. "tsmaster") in the operating system, if unix
with no login shell (or login shell defined as "/bin/false")

2)Include this user in the master.uid file

3) In the wft, explicitly make this user the owner of the workflow

Ex:- <workflow name="Concurrent_Approval"
owner ="tsmaster"
............../>

By doing this, the user who actually creates the job will
still see the menu options for doing things like removing the job and
possibly the transition options - but they won't work. Only the actually
assigned owner of the task and the "tsmaster" account (or any one logged in
as a TeamSite master) will be able to take control of the task/job.