Basic workflow question

A quick one I think. I have the following "Approver" task in a job, and in my email program I call from the .wft I want to extract the comment in <comments>this</comments> - the one where I have all the ?s.

How do I do it?

I know I can retrieve the task using iwgettaskbyname CLT or its Perl Mod equivalent for "Approver". But then how do I get the comment in <comments>? Or is there a way where I can get it from the Job without having to look up the task?

Haven't been able to find it so far; would be a nice timesaver if someone can tell me.

Cheers

./iwgetwfobj 723785

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>

<description>Review Task</description>

</activation>

</inactivate>

</predecessors>

<files>

<comment date="1439925163" user="johnsonpd" task="723785">1 Errors </comment>

</comments>

</file>

<comment date="1439925163" user="johnsonpd" task="723785">3 Errors </comment>

</comments>

</file>

</file>

</files>

<comment date="1439925276" user="johnsonpd" task="723785">This is my approval message; where does it go?????????????????????????????????</comment>

</comments>

</successorset>

</successorset>

</successors>

</usertask>

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David Smith

If you're using perl, WFTask->getComments();

If you're using Java, CSTask.getCOmments();

HurricanesFan

Smitty97007 wrote:
If you're using perl, WFTask->getComments();

If you're using Java, CSTask.getCOmments();

Thanks Smitty,

so from the legacy WF guide:

GetFileComments(\@list, $felement)

Gets the file comments for the task. The result is an array of hash refs, where each hash has keys of 'date', 'task', 'user', and 'body'.

Doesn't appear to be a CLT equivalent for it.

I'll plug it in and try it tomorrow.

HurricanesFan

After the tip from Smitty, I eventually got this working, so I'll post my code here for anyone else who may need to use this. I'm fetching the comments on a Job that has been rejected, and I'm going to send the comments and the name of the Reviewer who made them back to the user in an email:

##We need the "Approver" task to get Reviewer's comments
   my $review_task_id = `$iw_home/bin/iwgettaskbyname $JobID Approver`;
#...or could use TeamSite::WFworkflow GetTaskByName Perl function; should be task before this one
   my $task = new TeamSite::WFtask($review_task_id);
   my @comment = ();
   my @comment_line = ();
   $task->GetComments(\@comment);
   for my $cref ( @comment ) ##It contains date, task, user & comments (body):
   {
#       $cref->{date} # Format
#       $cref->{task}, # ID and name
#       TeamSite::CGI_lite->escape_html_data($cref->{body} || '')
        push @comment_line, "$cref->{user}: $cref->{body}<br>\n";
   }

David Smith

Even when I actually help someone, I still don't get the credit. smh