grouptask

We have author's initiating a workflow; thus the owner of the job is the author. I need to have the grouptask defined for a group of editors only that does include authors or owners of the job. What does not work is that when the grouptask is the current task, the author(owner of the job) is still able select the successor options. I have a group of editors defined in the sharedby that does not include the author - why is the author or owner of the job still able to execute the successor sets?

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Migrateduser

My guess is that the job creator is also the job owner. Set the owner attribute of the workflow to the workarea owner, or some user that should have full control of the job.

taiyo

i'm very curious about how to set up grouptasks. i think that i should start by asking how do you define the group? do you create a variable in workflow and hardcode all members of the group to this variable?

i would like to set up a QA group that would allow any and all members of the QA group to take ownership of a task once it has been submitted to their step in workflow.

thanks much!

Adam Stoller

Have you read the manual? Especially the recently released SP3 Workflow manual?

Please do so - and if that does not answer your question, please ask again.

Part of the reason for having you do this is to find out if the [revised] documentation doesn't really answer your question, then we'll need to file another bug on it - but if it does - great! That's the intent.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

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taiyo

at first peruse of the 300 page doc i'm seeing that there are new iw commands created for grouptask but what i really need is practical application of this.....i.e. (example code).

can anyone provide a bit more direction?

thanks!

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Migrateduser

Are you on Solaris or Windows? If you are on Solaris, setting up groups is very easy. On Windows, I have no clue. I will go into more detail if you are running on Solaris.

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Adam Stoller

Let's take a step back here. What exactly are you trying to do?

Are you creating a WFT by hand?
Are you using WFB?

Have you looked at the definition of a grouptask element? On page 130 it shows the list of sub-elements for a grouptask, one of which is 'sharedby' which is then defined on page 131 as having one-or-more of two possible sub-elements 'user', 'group' which are defined on page 132. Granted, these are pretty cut-and-dried sections of text. However there is an example of one filled out on page 184.

Having said all that - the "group" that shares a grouptask is an arbitrary group of users comprised of specified individuals and/or the members of specified OS-level groups.

<sharedby>
<user v="Tom"/>
<group v="OtherFolks"/>
<user v="Richard"/>
</sharedby>

If OtherFolks is an OS group that contains members such as "Jan" and "Dean" - then the grouptask, when it is first activated, will show up in the To Do List / Task Lists for: Tom, Jan, Dean, and Richard - one of whom then claims ownership of the task and then it behaves like a usertask.

Does that help clarify the situation? If not - could you try to re-phrase your question to be as specific as possible about what you are trying to understand?

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)