topic How to generate empty bpm:comment box in task form? in Alfresco Forum

How to generate empty bpm:comment box in task form?

marcollirite — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:32:56 GMT

Hi all,I'm developing a custom workflow, where I would like comments from the previous task to be shown in the task form for the next task. To achieve this, I have a custom 'previous comment' text property which is rendered as a read-only text area. In each task I also have a bpm:comment field for t

Re: How to generate empty bpm:comment box in task form?

jearles — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 22:06:27 GMT

Marcus,

As stated in your double-post to StackOverflow:

please try by appending your comments to previous comments
ex:
var comment = ((execution.getVariable("vorwf_prevComment") !=null)?execution.getVariable("vorwf_prevComment"):"") +"\n<p>"+person.properties.userName+":</p>"+task.getVariableLocal('bpm_comment'); execution.setVariable("vorwf_prevComment",comment);
and after that set bpm_comment property to null
hope this will help you.
It is displaying in comment box because of by default while submitting the form bpm_commentproperty is set with the textbox's value of which you have entered. So set bpm_comment to null.

Please respond for future users whether this has been helpful or we need to look deeper, for you.

Thanks,
-JEarles
bp3

Re: How to generate empty bpm:comment box in task form?

marcollirite — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:30:06 GMT

Hi Jonathan

Thanks for adding this to the question. I tried this method but I was getting a script error from Alfresco which I couldn't solve. However, setting bpm_comment to null, after setting the value of vorwfrevComment, has solved the problem, while maintaining the comments field in the workflow history.