How to use this in a workflow? about auto-workflow-assignment

[EliJDonahue]

Hi Angela,

This project provides an example for a scenario when you want an end user to choose one or more identities for a task. This becomes a little more clear if you imagine that the "Workflow Assignment Example" item is a business object, like a Document.

A user can create the business object and then set 1-3 "reviewers" in the reviewer properties. When the user saves the business object, the workflow is initialized and triggers the labs_WorkflowAssignmentExampleCS method.

The labs_WorkflowAssignmentExampleCS method then:

• gets the business object using the labs_GetControlledItemCSharp method
• builds an array of reviewers from the business object's properties
• creates an Activity Assignment for each reviewer in the array
• sets the voting weight of each assignment based on the total number of reviewers
• updates the current activity

You could easily use the sample code to allow end users to select assignees for a Part, Document, ECN, etc. You just need to add the method to an OnActivate server event on the workflow activity of your choice and update the code to get the correct properties from the business object/controlled item.

Does that make more sense?

Eli

[AngelaIp]

Thanks for the explanation!
But in the end I finally figured it out myself two weeks ago. We already use the function in one of our processes. In my variant, the respective assignments are set automatically based on the team roles and some additional properties. Much more powerful than your version :-).

[EliJDonahue]

Great idea for a project! Thanks for the follow up, Angela.