giving a dummytask an owner

I have a dummy task which works fine. However some users dislike the idea that when a job which they created needs to wait for something (publish date , whatever) The task "disappears". that is to say the dummy task is not owned by any user and no longer appears on the users todo list. The problem is made worse by the fact that in order to ensure proper process during the job the job owner is a special system user. (this prevents creators of the job from approving , publishing etc) This means the option of viewing my jobs is no longer valid. Is their anyway at all of giving a dummy task an owner??? If not has anyone got a work around ???

Lee C

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Migrateduser

Just as a workaround, you could use a usertask with a timeout, which is essentially the same thing as a dummytask as long as no one acts on the usertask and just lets it timeout. I'm not sure it would be the best way to go, but it is an option.

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Migrateduser

There are other issues with dummytask, such as that it does not have an area or files (which makes it easier for a second workflow to be created for a file that is already involved in workflow). I prefer grouptask except for the last task in the job (which just keeps the job in workflow history for some period of time). For timeout stuff I usually want the user to be able to override the timeout anyway (to deploy now, or cancel the job, etc.), so the successorset is just the task that would have been transitioned to by the timeout. But if you don't want the user to be able to override you could have the only successorset be to a new dummytask that has a zero timeout to reactivate the original grouptask (since a task can't have itself as a successorset).

Lee

I'm going to use an external task with a time out. what i do with the script ran i'm not sure, possibly nothing just exit without call back . Hopefully this will give me the strict contol over the interface (the task appears in the user doto list but allows no user interaction).

Adam Stoller

Why have the externaltask script not perform the callback?
Are you planning to handle the callback through some other means?

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