adding variabel approver list to a workflow

olegc

We have a workflow today with a variable name list for notification email. A coodinator at our Data Center gets a new doc and depending on the doc picks names from a list to email notification that the doc is there for review. However, there is no evident way to make this variable list of reviewers actually part of the active workflow. How can we do this? Today they have to email her comments so she can enter them manually since she is the task owner from that point. Thanks

Adam Stoller

If the issue is a case of you may need anywhere from 1 to N review tasks and you cannot know how many 'N' is when you initiate the workflow - consider using a nested workflow approach. At the point in time when you *can* determine how many 'N' is - you initiate a nested wft - which will prompt you for the number (N) during instantiation - that allows you to programmatically generate the N task [sets] you need to support the review process.

Probably have a cgitask as the first task in the child workflow - which prompts you to select the individuals for each of the N review tasks - and then it can perform adjustments on the ownership of all the N tasks accordingly before transitioning to them.

No, this isn't "simple" workflow development - but it's not "rocket science" either ... expect development to take a bit of time, especially if you haven't done something like this before.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)