Flexible title for approval task

[Former Member]

Hi,

my current customer wants all approval tasks to be sent to the approver as well as to all delegates that the approver has specified. This means that the approval task shows up in the todo tab of multiple users. These users now need to be able to find out who actually has to approve such a request in the first place and who received that request only because he has been specified as a delegate.

In order to implement this, we would need to be able to customize the Display name of a task so that we can display information that is depedent on the request.

Does any know whether this is possible? I tried to add variable names such as %MSKEYVALUE% to the Display name, but this didn't work.

Best regards

Holger

[Former Member]

Hi Holger,

okay then I would use a "Custom Approval Object" and use the DISPLAYNAME of this object to show the information in the column "Name" of the tab "To-Do".

There is also a [blog|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/19676] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken]; about "Custom Approval Objects" in the SDN written by my colleague [Dominik Trui|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/bc?u=ltpz9gvdu3okzrzvcjfrwg%3d%3d].

Best regards,

Christoph

Edited by: Christoph Reckers on Nov 19, 2010 9:46 AM

Edited by: Christoph Reckers on Nov 19, 2010 9:47 AM

[Former Member]

Hello again,

the tab u201ETo-Dou201C has the columns u201CRequest Idu201D, u201CNameu201D, u201CTasksu201D and Date.

In my last reply I meant the column u201CNameu201D, because I do not know to add the information of you requirement to the column u201CTasksu201D. From my point of view the column u201CTasksu201D shows always the display name if the approval task.

So you have to use the column u201CNameu201D like I explained in my last reply.

If you use a PVO and a Release before 7.1 SP5 I do not know how to fulfill your requirement. This is the reason why SP5 has this feature.

If you use release 7.1 SP5 use the column u201CNameu201D to show this information.

I hope this will help.

Best regards,

Christoph

[Former Member]

Thanks for the hints, I will test this next week. So far I was not planning to use Pending Values, so I think this would require quite some changes to our implementation, because we are not approving privileges. We are trying to approve the initial import of the user and perform some additional workflow steps as part of the onboarding process. So we need to be able to see a lot of attributes of the user and would have to add these attributes to the pending value object first.

Best regards

Holger

[Former Member]

Hi Holger,

with release 7.1 SP5 the DISPLAYNAME of the PVO is shown in the Tab "To-Do". Before the DISPLAYNAME of the PVO reference MX_ENTRY_REFERENCE was shown in the tab "To-Do".

If you do not set the DISPLAYNAME of the PVO in the current release (7.1 SP5), the DISPLAYNAME of the PVO reference MX_ENTRY_REFERENCE is shown.

Best regards,

Christoph

[Former Member]

Hi Holger

You could do a ToIdentityStore Pass.

This pass then sets the Displayname for this MX_PENDING_VALUE.

So you can also use scripts to generate the stuff.