topic Re: transition arguments? in Alfresco Archive

transition arguments?

bedag-moo — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:14:05 GMT

Hi,In a task-node with two outgoing transitions, I'd like to prompt the user for different data depending on which transition she selects (specifics below).I'm curious how others approach this; the best approach I see is to define the properties for both transitions in the task model, map them in th

Re: transition arguments?

claudio_martins — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:01:29 GMT

Your transition should move to a task-node that defines the custom model (the metadata) you want to request from the user.

Re: transition arguments?

bedag-moo — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:07:25 GMT

I could do that, but:

1) The manager has to open the task twice in order to send it to review, which is somewhat cumbersome if he has many tasks in his list.
2) The data-entry task will appear in the task history.
3) What if the user changes his mind after he has transitioned to the data-entry node?

In my specific use case, presenting the manager with the reviewer selection list even if he doesn't (yet) want to send the document for review seems a lesser evil. In general, I'll keep that technique in mind 🙂

Any other ideas? I was thinking about modifying the web client to take the user to a data entry wizard upon selecting a transition, but that would probably get quite involved?