How to get the owner of a grouptask

Hi,

i'm trying to get the owner of a group task, so i can use it as the owner of a user task following the group task.

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so i can use it as the owner of a user task following the group task

I assume you don't me directly following the grouptask, but rather you are working on an externaltask script that gets run after the grouptask but before the usertask - right?

Once the grouptask is claimed by a member of the group, you should be able to use the $task->GetOwner() method [TeamSite::WFtask::GetOwner()] to determine who the owner of the task is.

Are you using the grouptask attribute "retainowner" ? You might want to if the task gets iterated through a loop and you want it to continue to have the same owner.

Hope that helps

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

Papi

That's it. I'm using an external task after the grouptask. And I want the owner of the grouptask to be the owner of the external task. So, I tried to get the owner in the workflow script, but of course, it's blank when you start the workflow. Is there a way to start that piece of code on the moment the external task starts ?

Migrateduser

I think if you want the externaltask that's directly after the grouptask to be owned by the same user as whoever took ownership of the grouptask, you'll need another externaltask before your current externaltask that does nothing more than figure out who took ownership of the grouptask (using the method ghoti described) and then modifies the owner of the following externaltask.

Dave Smith
Sr. Software Engineer
Nike, Inc.
(503) 671-4238
DavidH.Smith@nike.com

Papi

Cool, but if i start an external task to get the owner, how do i get this back to the workflow ? Because you need to make an external script to find it, and then you have to send it back to the workflow. Is there a possibility with the callback function ?

Adam Stoller

Please read the workflow manuals and supplementary workflow documentation available on this site (do a search for "workflow tutorial" - if you still don't understand at that point, I'd strongly recommend that you go through formal training on workflow development that Interwoven's Education group provides.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

Migrateduser

The way to do this is to use the WFtask: Smiley Frustrated

etOwner method. As long as you know the Task ID of the externaltask you want to change the owner for, this is a piece of cake. In order to get that Task ID you can use the WFworkflow::GetTaskByName method, then use the WFtask::GetId on that task. Like ghoti said, you really need to understand these basic concepts in order to use them effectively.

Dave Smith
Sr. Software Engineer
Nike, Inc.
(503) 671-4238
DavidH.Smith@nike.com