"Due Date" column in Webdesk

Hi all,
I have a workflow question. In TeamSite Webdesk (the user friendly interface), there is a default column call "Due Date". This "Due Date" column should be the same as the next column "Priority" that is highly configurable. For example, in workflow, I can set the variable for the "Priority" column in each task in the "variable" tags:

<grouptask name='Contribute Content' owner='mast_hodc\wngg2' description='Urgent: Contribute content to eOffice'>
<areavpath v='/default/main/Allstate/AgencyDistribution/Content/WORKAREA/Countrywide'/>
<successors>
<successorset description='Submit for Review'>
<succ v='Email_HOCS'/>
</successorset>
</successors>
<sharedby>
<user v='mast_hodc\wngg2' />
</sharedby>
<variables>
<variable key="priority" value="Normal"/>
</variables>
</grouptask>

However, for the "Due Date" column, I couldn't find a way to set the "Due Date" variable. I tried to use the "variable" tag but it was not working. I'd appreciate if anyone of you can help me to solve this mystery.

Thanks.

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Migrateduser

Due Date and Priority are only the default attributes. You can change this in the [iw_workflow_ui] section of the iw.cfg file. See the section "Configuring Job Attribute Filters and Settings" in the TeamSite Administration Guide.

Note to other readers: This is a relatively new feature, so you may not see these columns if you are using an old release.

Brinko Kobrin
Interwoven Staff Engineer

wngg2

Thanks brinko,

I actually found out the way to set the variable for the default "Due Date" column as follow:

<variables>
<variable key="priority" value="High"/>
<variable key="due_date" value="10242002" />
</variables>

Noting that the value for "due_date" is in mmddyyyy format.

Migrateduser

Sorry, I seem to have misunderstood your question. Yes, that is all you need to do to set the values if you want to use Priority and Due Date, as is. I had focused on the "highly configurable" comment in your post, and thought that you were interested in using different variables for the two columns.

Brinko Kobrin
Interwoven Staff Engineer

cc96ai

If I want to pass the due data & Priority from Task A to Task B
how can I do that ?
I cannot retrieve back the data
i try on
__TAG__('due_date')
__VALUE__('due_date')

cc96ai

I am using
TS 6.1 W2K3
CCPRO

Adam Stoller

What do you mean by "pass the due dat & Priority from Task A to Task B" ?
Do you mean that both tasks should be defined to have the same due date and priority? or that it's possible that the due date and/or prioirty on Task A might get changed [administratively?] and you want to make sure that if its changed on Task A that it gets changed on Task B?

In either case - these are not form variables that can be accessed with __TAG__ or __VALUE__ directly within the wft [unless - see below] - they are job and task level variables and they can be manipulated programmatically via externaltask and cgitask scripts and wfvarstartop and wfvarfinishop wft directives.

The exception to the above is if you provide prompts for setting the due date and/or priority in the instantiation part of your wft (using TAG_info()) - and you use the value of the form variable to set the value of the job and/or task level variables -- then you can access those instantiation form variables with __TAG__ or __VALUE__ (depending on context) within the wft.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

cc96ai

I mean in CCPro's | Workflow | Tasks
I can view / edit my task, it comes with "Due Date" and "Priority"
after I save it and pass into next task.
Then how can i retrieve the Due Date and Priority back ?

Contributor -> Approver 1(Change Due Date) -> Approver 2

Does it possible ?

Adam Stoller

My guess is that the answer is "no" - not via the GUI
- you can remember what you did on the prior task and type it in again
- you can do something programatically with an externaltask or cgitask
- you can do something with a custom menu item using either TeamSite::WFworkflow and/or TeamSite::WFtask methods or calling CLTs directly

If you feel this is missing functionality then you'll have to file a feature request with Support.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

cc96ai

oh ok
Can I disable (disapper) Due Date & "Priority"
i check on my iw.cfg
i cannot find it out.
Thanks

Adam Stoller

You mean from the Task and Job list - yes - I just did this.
You need to read the User Interface Customization Guide (UICG) documentation - basically you'll be changing some files under iwhome/local/config/lib/content_center/....
I don't remember the exact path and follow-up commands to run for 6.1 -- I believe it changed slightly in 6.5 (or maybe it changed in an SP on 6.1?) -- read the documentation - try to follow it - and then, if you still have questions - ask again with more details about what you did and what did/did not happen.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com